(Photos by Kaye Slover)
There is no entrance sign for Holly Springs.
Holly Springs Cemetery is located about 3 miles west of Oakland,
Texas, and north of Highway 84 on County Road 1702. The cemetery is at
the end of a dirt road in a wooded unpopulated area. Keep bearing to the
left on the dirt road. Holly Springs is a mixed cemetery with most
burials those of people of African American descent. Ancestors of some
of the oldest Cherokee County African American families can be found
here. The earliest burials were those of White people, the family of
Joseph Acker being the only ones marked. Elviray Thomason, wife of John
Wylie Thomason, is known to be buried here in 1844 but no marker exists.
Thanks to Willie Harold Acker, Sr. for all the early history information
on this cemetery. The cemetery marker survey was done Sep,1996 by Ira
Gaylon White and published in 1997 by the Cherokee County Genealogical
Society.
Copyright 2006 to present Kaye Slover