Strangers Rest Cemetery Lufkin Texas

This graveyard was the equivalent to a paupers cemetery.
All burials (named on memorial stone) were between 1901 & 1947.
R.D.Holland,Sydney Hackney and S.D.Long,trustees of an Angelina Co. African-American cemetery group,acquired one acre here from the Lufkin Land and Timber Co. in 1905. Recorded burials began in 1901. The graveyard was first known as Frost Cemetery but according to local tradition began to be called Strangers Rest Cemetery about 1915 because of the large number of drifters buried here. The last recorded interment of Norris Patton took place in 1946. The site fell
into disrepair but was reclaimed by members of the local community and county volunteers in 1991-92.
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I was deer hunting Angelina County one😂year and i found myself in a very old cemetery i was actually standing on a wooden coffen. It was spoky i moved on out. Instresting

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There was a lot of Johnson on some of the head stones i could find think I found three before I moved on