Mt. Pleasant Cemetery

The cemetery sits between two railroad towns. The Handbook of Texas says Deport was founded in the late 1800s by Col. Dee Thompson, got a post office in 1883, and by 1914 had 1,200 people and forty businesses after the Paris and Mount Pleasant Railway came through. A fire in 1929 cost $30,000 on Main Street, and the railroad was discontinued in 1956. Pattonville, named for Robert Patton, who settled near the time of the Texas Revolution, had a bank by 1914 and 250 residents in the early 1920s after the same railway arrived.

What the plaque says

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery The trustees of the Mt. Pleasant Church purchased this property from the McGill Community School for one dollar in 1895. Many burials here pre-date that purchase but the earliest marked grave is that of 4-year-old Sammie Bryan who died in 1874. There are 449 marked graves within the cemetery's two acres. The history of the area is reflected on these stones, from the victims of a tornado in 1908 and the influenza epidemic of 1918 to the veterans of our nation's wars and several generations of families who contributed to the development of the farming community of Deport and its environs. Historic Texas Cemetery-2000

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eiffel Tower — 13 mi
  A 65-foot Eiffel Tower with a red cowboy hat, built by the local welders' union in 1993 beside Paris's Love Civic Center.
• Evergreen Cemetery — 14 mi
  Paris's town cemetery since 1866, with a carved-stone gallery that includes the Babcock monument in cowboy boots, and the grave of the three-year-old whose death led to the 1893 lynching of Henry Smith.
• Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site — 15 mi
  The Italian-villa-style house in Paris, finished in 1868 with a lawyer's fees, where a Confederate major general turned U.S. senator and two later generations of his family lived.
• Cooper Lake State Park — 23 mi
  Two units on Jim Chapman Lake, a Corps reservoir proposed in the late 1930s, stalled by a lawsuit until 1984 and dedicated in 1991, with a 10.5-mile equestrian trail and wildlife land around it.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Blossom — 8.7 mi
• Rockford Church and Cemetery — 8.8 mi
• Biardstown School — 9.5 mi
• Antioch Cemetery and Old Antioch Church of Christ — 9.7 mi