The Rude cemetery is located on the south side of County Road 1616 which connects US Highway 69 and FM 347 just south of the loop of Jacksonville, Texas. It is surrounded by pasture and woods but is easily accessed. Full of weeds but appears to have been mowed occasionally. The oldest marked burial is that of E.D. Ross, wife of G.W. Ross Jul 14,1867. The cemetery marker survey was done Oct,1996 by Gaylon White and published in 1997 by the Cherokee County Genealogical Society.