A Full view of sign with cemetery

Inside an iron fence (no entry gate) were nine marked graves:

Flat concrete marker, approx 18” x 30”, no identifying information

7 concrete markers approx 6’-8” wide with only initials:

WHG

WJG

R

WIG or WLG

A

PJG

?LG (tree had grown around outer edge of stone)

One stone with the word HERE. The top of this stone had been broken off and upper part was not located. 

About 10 feet away, outside the iron fence, was one CSA marker:

ROSSER, M.V.  no dates   Co C or G., Bird’s Miss Cav   Before cleaning

ONE     TWO     THREE     FOUR     FIVE     SIX

Probate records of Bowie County show Mary Rosser died Nov 2, 1920 at her home in Bowie County.  M. V. Rosser died Jul 10, 1922 died in Bowie County.

(Note: Mart V ROSSER, age 74 was enumerated in the 1920 Bowie County, Precinct 3 Census with his wife, Mary. It is believed that Mary may be buried here as well) 

Death records indicate that STINSON, Elvin Floyd    4/30/1942 – 7/5/1942, son of Walter and Ollie Duncan Stinson is buried in Rosser Cemetery. No headstone found. 

The inventory done by the DAR in the 1950’s indicates the following persons in this burial area:

BURKHEAD, W.A.   1812 – 1862

GODWIN, W.J.     no dates

                   E.S.     no dates

                   S.J.      1880-1884

ROSSER, M.V.    no dates    Co O, Bird’s Miss Cav, C.S.A.

One other staked grave; four grave mounds