Floyd Hill Cemetery


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Floyd Hill Cemetery



From one who has made the trip to Floyd Hill Cemetery after a rain. You may well get stuck.  This is a sand/dirt road and it will be 10-12" of mud.  Then once it dries out, you have bad ruts.  I was in an SUV and the ruts were so bad I still drug bottom.


From Texas Historical Commision Marker:

"On Oct. 9, 1854, Killis S. Floyd donated a four-acre tract to three trustees of the Missionary Baptist Church, afterwards known as Floyds' Hill Church. The Rev. John Massey and the Rev. C. G. Stephens organized the congregation on Dec. 10, 1854, with 15 charter members. Worship services were held at the Frifogle house, former home of a pioneer family, until a log church was completed in 1855. About 1858 the log building was replaced by a one-room frame structure, erected with the help of slave labor. Blacks worshiped here until Floyd gave land for a separate black church. The adjacent Floyds' Hill Cemetery, which contains about 200 known graves, served the pioneer families who migrated to this locality from Alabama and Georgia in the 1850s. The oldest stone marks the grave of Mary Bryan (1850-1858). The farming community of Floyds' Hill declined after World War I, and regular church services ended in 1926. When a storm damaged the church building in 1932, volunteers erected a new frame structure on the original foundation. Floyds' Hill Church - Cemetery Association, established in 1948, sponsors an annual homecoming for descendants of early settlers."


NAME
BIRTH
DEATH
COMMENTS
Blalock, Lula May 15, 1868 Dec 3, 1900 3rd W/o William I Blalock
Blalock, William I 1846 1921 1st wife Mary Welsh; 2nd wife M V Jones; 3rd wife Lula; S/o Hardy Blalock & Harriett Caroline Long
Fitts, Jalon D Feb 20, 1905 Jul 17, 1907 S/o William & Tarasa Fitts
Fitts, Tarasa Catherine Sep 3, 1866 Apr 24, 1919 Nee Kirkland; W/o William Franklin Fitts
Fitts, William Franklin May 3, 1856 Nov 8, 1925 H/o Tarasa Catherine Kirkland
McCoy, Annie Lee Mar 27, 1913 Feb 22, 1915 D/o William Eugene McCoy & Leola Johnson; GD/o Wm Zachariah McCoy & Betty Griffin
McCoy, Bettie Griffin Jun 11, 1855 1930 W/o William Zachariah McCoy
McCoy, Delia Eugenia Feb 14, 1874 Sep 10, 1909 -
McCoy, James Menace Nov 8, 1910 Oct 2, 1912 S/o Wm Eugene McCoy & Leola Johnson; GS/o Wm Zachariah McCoy & Betty Griffin
McCoy, Minnie Lee Jul 24, 1876 Apr 6, 1878 D/o Wm Zachariah McCoy & Betty Griffin; GD/o James H McCoy & Nancy Blalock
McCoy, William Zachariah Nov 28, 1850 Sep 18, 1933 S/o James H McCoy & Nancy Blalock; GS/o Henry McCoy & Mary Lackey
Story, Annie Bell Nov 5, 1874 Aug 24, 1878 D/o Samuel & Susan Story
Story, Cornelius Odum Aug 20, 1878 Aug 2, 1883 S/o Samuel & Susan Story









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