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 Athens North Cemetery (Black)
Henderson County Texas

History of the Cemetery Directions to Cemetery Transciption
Historical Marker Photos Veterans
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History of the Athens North Cemetery (Black)

 

 

Directions to Cemetery

From the Courthouse house in Athens Texas, take Highway 19 North towards Canton. Go appromiately 1 to 1 1/2 miles. Turn right on Edmondson Street. Go down approximately 1 1/2 block. Cemetery is located on the left hand side of road.

 

Enumeration

Anderson, Jimmie
b. Sept 26,1919 d. Oct 12,1998
S/O Wade and Hannah Wofford Anderson
U. S. Army		 Andrews, Alfonzie
b. Sept 08,1929 d. Jan 24,2000
S/O Valree and Arlene Thompson Andrews		 Barker, Eva M
b. Oct 10,1908 d. July 20 2002
D/O John and Lena Wilson Richardson		 Basher, Eric
b. July 10,1984 d. Sept 13,2000
S/O Oran Basher and Bertha Ray Dewberry
Beasley, Doris Rozell
b. Sept 03,1930 d. Nov 27,1999
D/O Arthur and Easter Hallman Wirdlow		 Beasley, Horace Oncil
b. May 28,1928 d. Jan 25,1999
S/O Maggie and Tommy Beasley Sr.		 Bell Mary R
b. July 10,1909 d. Oct 13,2000
D/O Charles and Annie Smith Randles		 Braxton, Sherri Diann
b. May 29,1969 d. June 11,2002
D/O Mary F Sims and James Braxton
Chancellor, Danna Jean
b. Sept 17,1957 d. Aug 27,2000
D/O Neal and Nellie Mae Sessions Chancellor		 Davis, Oleta Barker Johnson
b. May 08,1935 d. Aug 29,1998
D/O Marion and Madern McAdoo Edmondson Barker		 Johnson, Lillie Mae
b. Jan 17,1921 d. Aug 12,2000
D/O Eli and Annie Alice Gaston Scruggs		 Sims, Olevia
b. Feb 09,1918 d. Feb 25,1999
D/O Jeffe and Frances Allen Carr Lucas
Sims, Tony
b. Oct 03, 1948 d.Jan 19, 2001
S/O Eugene Sr and Olevia Lucas Sims		 Wilson, Harold
b. Oct 29 1927 d. July 16,2002
S/O Ernest and Frankie B Wilson		 Information submitted by Laura Gregory Roberts

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Historical Marker

 

Photos

 

Killed in the line of duty while at the Houston Police Dept.

          

Officer Harold Lloyd Preston was born in Athens, Texas in 1955. Sometime later, the Preston family moved to Houston, where he was a student at Jack Yates High School. After his 1973 graduation, Harold attended Texas Southern University, graduating in 1978. A year later, he joined the Houston Police Force's class #86. Harold was a 41-year veteran of HPD.

On October 20, 2020, police were called to the scene by a woman who had been locked out of her apartment by her estranged husband and was attempting to retrieve belongings. Other officers had been to the apartment two additional times in the preceding days for domestic disturbance calls. Sergeant Preston and the other officer spoke to the woman for approximately an hour before her 14-year-old son managed to unlock the apartment door and encountered his father holding a gun.

The man then opened fire, striking Sergeant Preston numerous times in the head and upper body. The other officer and juvenile were also wounded. The man surrendered approximately one hour later.

Sergeant Preston had served with the Houston Police Department for 41 years and was scheduled to retire in the coming weeks. He was survived by his elderly parents, whom he cared for, and fiancée.

 

 

 

Veterans



killed in Action
T/5 Henry Elam, Jr. of Athens, 1917-1946.
Henry was the son of Henry and Liller Elam and grew up in Athens. He enlisted in the US Army in July 1942. Elam served in England, France, Scotland and Germany. He earned the EAME Medal and three Bronze Stars.
Elam married Mary Selman and they were the parents of Dorothy Jean, Joe Henry, and Sarah Elam.
After being discharged from the US Army, he returned to Texas. In 1946 he was killed in a car accident. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Athens, probably North Athens Cemetery.
   

 

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