Sugar Hill Cemetery

A 1998 index of Sugar Hill Cemetery by Robbie Sutlive and Marylee Knight, posted on Panola County TXGenWeb, recorded about 165 graves as unmarked. It names Minerva Wyatt Henson, second wife of Terrell Henson, as possibly buried in one of them. Joseph R. Woods, who lived from 1838 to 1862, has no known burial place, and his descendants set a memorial marker beside the grave of his wife, Mary Ann Woods. Several graves carry markers supplied by local funeral homes, among them Hawthorn's, Rains and Talley, and Sullivan's.

What the plaque says

Sugar Hill Cemetery Elijah Wyatt, who came to Texas in 1838, is thought to have died and been buried here in 1849. His son-in-law, Terrell Henson, deeded land to T. A. Sullivan in 1855, reserving one acre for "the graveyard and meeting house," supporting the local belief that the site was already in use as a local burial ground. Thomas C. Jones was living on Wyatt family property when he died in 1861; his is the earliest marked grave. The site became the Sugar Hill Community Cemetery as more families were interred here. Members of the Terrell and Minerva Wyatt Henson family are believed to be buried under the rocks surrounding three graves at the entrance to the cemetery. With 78 marked graves and at least as many unmarked, the graveyard includes the final resting place of veterans of the Civil War and World War II. (1999)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tex Ritter Museum and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — 13 mi
  Carthage's country music museum, with Tex Ritter's boots, guitars and saddles in a room styled like a movie theater, and exhibits on other Texas stars, Jim Reeves among them.
• East Texas Oil Museum — 21 mi
  A Kilgore College museum that rebuilds the 1930s oil boom in a full-scale Boomtown with a general store, drugstore and newspaper office, plus dioramas, films and antiques given by East Texans.
• New London Museum and Cenotaph — 22 mi
  A volunteer-run museum beside the pink granite cenotaph for the March 1937 school gas explosion, holding a model of the school, a blackboard from that day and an odorizer device.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 25 mi
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More markers nearby

• Harmony Hill Cemetery — 4.6 mi
• Isaac R. Youngblood — 4.8 mi
• Allison Chapel United Methodist Church — 5.0 mi
• Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi