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Cherokee Cemetery
AKA Cherokee Trace

Thanks to Rod Carnahan for these pictures.

From Gilmer take Hwy 271 N, turn left on Redbud St. Take a right on Cherokee Trace, go 2 miles. The cemetery is on the right, adjacent to the Cherokee Missionary Baptist Church.. The cemetery is well kept, and enclosed in a chain link fence.

As hard as we all try, we are human and sometimes when reading a cemetery we miss a grave covered with leaves, fireants, or bushes. Sometimes the headstone has sunk and is mostly underground. Our area also has many graves only marked with iron ore rocks and even many unmarked graves. There are headstones that have long ago been destroyed by the elements or even vandalizm, and are hard to impossible to read the details. We would appreciate it if you would let us know if you did not find your relative which was buried here, and would appreciate your letting us use the information you know about them. With the combined efforts of us all, we can make the Upshur County website bigger and better.

Recorded January 2, 1998 by Rose Marie Buchanan Gray.
Submitted by the Upshur County Historical Commission.

Updated 2005.

Thanks to Jane Eubanks & Geraldine Little Braswell for sending in their pictures.

NAME BIRTH DEATH COMMENTS

Alexander, Ray Oct 20, 1932 Nov 17, 2002 CPL US Army Korea

Anders, Joseph "Joe" Victor Oct 22, 1958 Feb 13, 1988 -

Anders, Ronald C 1961 1962 Death Certificate

Arnold, Doris Sep 23, 1927 Jun 30, 2006 Added per obit

Arnold, Johnny Ray Nov 6, 1963 Aug 23, 1985 -

Arnold, Loyd Benford Jul 25, 1931 May 21, 1995 Pvt US Army Korea

Autry, Alva Marie Buchanan Nov 15, 1927 - M/o Billy Brown

Baird, Irene Bugg Sep 2, 1912 Feb 2, 1997 Pic #2

Baird, Walter "Dick" May 8, 1892 Aug 16, 1965 Death Certificate

Barfield, Margie L Ellison 1921 1964 -

Bates, Lila Lorene McClelland Jul 14, 1911 Jan 14, 1991 Info taken from obit sent to us by Rod Carnahan; D/o Connie & Nick McClelland; W/o James Martin Bates; M/o Bobby Bates & James Bates Jr. (All but Lila are buried in Floyd Cemetery, Upshur County, Tx); Stone has been placed on grave, 2003.
She was born in Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas and was a lifelong Upshur County resident; Age 79 years.

Brooks, Arda Feb 4, 1899 Dec 25, 1981 H/o Ivie Lee

Brooks, Ivie Lee Sep 30, 1906 Dec 15, 1968 W/o Arda; Death Certificate

Brown, Billy Wayne May 19, 1957 Feb 18, 1998 S/o Alva Marie Buchanan Autry; Pvt US Marine Corps

Buchanan, Alvin Otis 1881 1958 death certificate

Buchanan, Clyde G 1916 1997
S/o Alvin Otis & Missouri Risher Buchanan; H/o Rachel Duncan; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Buchanan, James Arthur May 21, 1914 Feb 21, 1969 death certificate  Tx PFC 282 Signal Pigeon Co WWII; Son of Alvin Otis and Missouri (Risher) Buchanan; Source: Ancestry World Tree Project Rhodes- Cheri Hamilton; submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell

Buchanan, Missouri 1890 1960 death certificate   d/o Benjamin Jackson &Alpha Omega Lenora (Thornton) Risher; Source: Ancestry World Tree Project---Cheri Hamilton; submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell

Buchanan, Rachel Duncan Jul 10, 1916 Aug 20, 1995 W/o Clyde G; no children born to union; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Campbell, Clara Lee Buchanan May 14, 1916 Sep 22, 1987 m. 2-17-1953 Wm Samuel "Dutch" Campbell (buried Oak Hill Cemetery); W/o James Arlan Roach; D/o Alvin Otis & Missouri Risher Buchanan; Info from Ernest Campbell; submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell; submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell

Cannon, Loyce Aug 10, 1917 Apr 2, 1986 Pvt US Army WWII

Cannon, Merlene 1926 2000 FHM

Chandler, Donald G Oct 8, 1946 May 19, 1980 -

Chandler, Herman E Jul 6, 1934 Dec 1, 1999 -

Chandler, Luner Mae - Mar 5, 2002 -

Chandler, Reba R'thella May 13, 1913 Mar 4, 1996 W/o Sam Henry

Chandler, Sam Henry Aug 2, 1913 Jan 29, 1987 H/o Reba R'thella

Chandler, Sidney Major
Sep 10, 1938
Oct 23, 2016
added per Obit

Clark, Joe Randall Nov 24, 1953 Jul 19, 2004 Pic #2

Collier, Rosa B Apr 8, 1901 Dec 9, 1988 -

Davidson, Clyde
Jul 27, 1937
Aug 26, 2016
Added per Obit

Davis, Allen H Apr 23, 1900 Aug 26, 1974 Death Certificate

Davis, Annie Myrtle Oct 26, 1900 May 16, 1967 Death Certificate

Davis, Dell Sr Apr 12, 1912 Jan 31, 1983 H/o Mary C

Davis, Ida Aills May 4, 1889 Aug 22, 1972 death certificate

Davis, Mary C "Mae" Aug 27, 1907 - W/o Dell Sr

Davis, Mitchell Dean Jul 24, 1919 Apr 11, 1994 S2 US Navy WWII

Davis, Olin C Jun 18, 1918 Apr 22, 1945 Tx PFC 382 Inf 96 Div WWII; Death Certificate

Davis, Paul Mar 4, 1934 Oct 25, 1987 -

Dawson, Don Apr 15, 1951 Jun 24, 2006 Added per Obit

Echols, Paulina A Nov 22, 1876 Apr 19, 1969 Death Certificate

Gibson, Elizabeth May 29, 1962 May 30, 1962 death certificate

Green, Audie Carrol Jun 4, 1956 Aug 1, 1978 Death Certificate; Footstone;  Texas Death Index

Green, Betty Lou 1987 1987 -

Green, Dessie Lorene Jan 21, 1920 - -

Green, Francis Dec 16, 1935 Apr 16, 2006 Added per obit

Green, Frank Shirley Feb 14, 1907 Sep 2, 1974 PFC US Army    death certificate

Green, Leslie L May 22, 1921 Dec 6, 1987 SSgt US Army WWII

Hall, Bernice Feb 21, 1926 Oct 24, 2002 -

Hall, J C Feb 2, 1920 Sep 10, 1998 US Army WWII

Hall, Louis R 1909 1996 -

Hall, Mary E 1912 1997 -

Haney, Grady Allen Jul 6, 1936 Mar 13, 1999 -

Haney, Grady Apr 10, 1915 Oct 24, 1976 Death Certificate

Haney, Geneva Apr 27,1918 - -

Haney, T Gordon May 17, 1942 Nov 12, 1989 -

Harris, Alma E Aug 6, 1933 - -

Harris, Doyle L Oct 12, 1933 Jan 23, 1992 Sn US Navy Korea

Harris, Shirley Feb 7, 1939 Dec 15, 1978 Death Certificate

Hunley, M G Nov 2, 1931 May 28, 1994 -

Jones, Douglas Sep 13, 1944 Apr 5, 2001 -

Jones, Gary Michael 1959 1980 -

Jones, George Stanley Nov 23, 1908 Mar 29, 1990 Pvt US Army WWII

Jones, Huey Feb 12, 1910 Dec 11, 1970 Death Certificate

Jones, Joseph H 1955 2000 Croley FHM

Jones, Vannie L Mar 25, 1915 Feb 3, 1964 Pfc US Army WWII

Kerr, Cloy Eugene May 5, 1949 Sep 9, 2004 SP4 US Army Vietnam

Lagrone, Abner L Mar 14, 1887 Aug 1, 1973 death certificate

Lagrone, Herman B Jul 15, 1915 Nov 13, 1983 -

Lagrone, John W Apr 1, 1880 Oct 7, 1962 Obit;   Death Certificate

Lange, Arthur Henry
Apr 20, 1936
Jun 25, 2016
Added per Obit

Lay, Carl Cody Jan 20, 1912 - H/o Katie Lee Ellison; m. Sep 28, 1935

Lay, Christine Nov 13, 1917 May 16, 1972 W/o Lynn

Lay, Code 1888 1947 -

Lay, Cody Franklin Jun 25, 1926 Jun 24, 1982 -

Lay, Gypsy Nell Aug 17, 1933 Oct 26, 1993 W/o Owen L

Lay, Harmon G Feb 18, 1945 Dec 19, 1947 Death Certificate

Lay, Isaac Code Sep 7, 1888 Oct 19, 1947 PFC OM Corps WWI; Death Certificate

Lay, Katie Lee Ellison Sep 14, 1913 Nov 24, 1995 W/o Carl Cody

Lay, Linda Kay Dec 6, 1943 Dec 19, 1947 -

Lay, Luner 1905 2002 -

Lay, Lynn Feb 19, 1915 Oct 2, 1989 H/o Christine

Lay, Owen L Jul 27, 1918 Aug 27, 2005 H/o Gypsy Nell; m. May 4, 1957

Lay, Stevie Lynn Sep 2, 1950 Sep 2, 1950 -

Lee, Robert E Oct 30, 1920 Feb 28, 1992 PFC US Army WWII Purple Heart

Machen, Iva Augusta Jan 1, 1899 Nov 2, 1987 W/o James Arthur

Machen, James Arthur Sep 24, 1895 Oct 23, 1987 PFC US Army WWII; H/o Iva Augusta; m. Jul 19, 1919

McCellon, Reba A Nov 5, 1939 - W/o Troyce L

McCellon, Troyce L Nov 2, 1937 Aug 19, 1984 H/o Reba A

Metcalf, M J Jul 20, 1915 Feb 28, 1988 Pvt US Army WWII

Metcalf, Mamie 1917 2002 Croley FHM

Metcalf, Tommy - - No dates

Montgomery, L H - Jun 1976 -

Moon, Louis P May 29, 1909 Dec 18, 2003 US Army WWII

Moon, Paul Gene Feb 20, 1933 Dec 11, 2015 Added per Obit

Mullins, James D III Jan 24, 1945 May 8, 2003 -

Nix, Ester V Jan 27, 1925 Jan 9, 1995 W/o James Leroy

Nix, James Leroy Nov 30, 1922 Dec 15, 1942 H/o Ester V; m. May 11, 1942

Orr, Charles Edward Dec 13, 1930 Feb 20, 1999 US Army Korea

Pennington, Ricky Lee Jul 5, 1959 Oct 3, 1990 -

Phillips, Miles Allen Jun 16, 1942 Feb 27, 1987 -

Preston, James E Sr 1917 1999 US Army; dates covered with grass; FHM

Pritchett, Kay Davis Mar 17, 1947 Feb 9, 2007 Obit;

Richey, Ernest Lee Mar 4, 1962 Apr 17, 1984 -

Risher, Joann Aug 28, 1952 Nov 6, 1952 death certificate

Risher, Joe N Feb 4, 1899 Sep 2, 1958 death certificate

Risher, Oliver May 8, 1891 Aug 12, 1971 F2 US Navy; b/o Missouri Risher Buchanan; Source: Ancestry Wrold Tree Project--Rhodes--Chari Hamilton; submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell; Death Certificate

Risher, Otis P Nov 22, 1910 Dec 13, 1969 Death Certificate

Risher, Virgie L Oct 10, 1924 Mar 25, 2002 -

Robertson, Ricky Lee 1971 1971 -

Robertson, Thomas Richard Apr 18, 1954 Mar 5, 1992 -

Robinson, Billy Clyde "Bill" Feb 10, 1930 Jan 9, 2015 Added per Obit

Robinson, Clarence L 1905 1969 H/o Nonnie L; death certificate

Robinson, E Eugene 1928 1997 -

Robinson, Nonnie L 1909 1995 W/o Clarence L

Rose, Donna Virginia Jan 14, 1955 Feb 8, 1981 D/o Henry Franklin & Mildred Frances Buchanan Rose; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Rose, Henry Franklin Feb 5, 1921 Jan 23, 1987 H/o Mildred Frances Buchanan; Tec4 US Army WWII

Rose, Mildred Franklin Buchanan Sep 4, 1922 Apr 19, 1984 W/o Henry Franklin; D/o Alvin Otis & Missouri Risher Buchanan; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Shaw, Annette Bigbee Jul 3, 1943 May 3, 2000 W/o Robert W; m. Jul 20, 1961

Shaw, George Newt 1881 1963 H/o Mary L; Death Certificate

Shaw, James Alfred Aug 1, 1913 Jul 19, 1982 H/o Nellie B

Shaw, Mary L "Molly" 1890 1966 W/o George Newt; Death Certificate

Shaw, Nellie B "Nell" Nov 23, 1917 - W/o James Alfred

Shaw, Robert W Apr 10, 1938 - H/o Annette Bigbee

Shipley, Harold N Jan 29, 1918 - H/o Linda Lou; m. Oct 13, 1957

Shipley, Linda Lou Oct 13, 1938 Jul 8, 1995 W/o Harold N

Smith, Mary V Nov 2, 1938 Mar 5, 1995 W/o Bobby John Collie; D/o James Arlon Roach & Clara Lee; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Stanley, Bobby Leon Oct 5, 1960 Oct 20, 2005 A1C US Air Force

Stewart, Beulah Jean Jan 15, 1926 - W/o Elton Leroy

Stewart, Elton Leroy Mar 4, 1923 Jan 3, 2007 h/o Beulah Jean; m. Aug 24, 1943; obit; s/o John Madison & Lockie Lee Lewis Stewart; US Army WWII

Stracner, Daniel Dewayne May 18, 1977 May 20, 1977 -

Taylor, Sharon Lee Sep 3, 1943 May 27, 1985 -

Twilla, Geneva G Oct 12, 1924 - W/o William W Sr

Twilla, William W Sr Apr 20, 1926 Jun 7, 2001 H/o Geneva G; m. Oct 2, 1944

Unknown Concrete Marker - - No name or dates

Unknown, Marie Aug 2, 1943 Jun 19, 1979 -

Warren, Shawna Jan 4, 1977 Jan 4, 1977 -

Wheeler, Glenn Rufus Sep 23, 1932 Mar 23, 1997 Pfc US Army Korea

Williams, Lula Mae 1924 1989 D/o Alvin Otis & Missouri Risher Buchanan; submitted by Nikki Robison Yordy

Yates, Lonnie D Jan 13, 1913 Feb 19, 1987 H/o Lillie M

Yates, Lillie M Dec 4, 1913 - W/o Lonnie D

Young, James Ray Sr Nov 29, 1941 Dec 13, 2015 Added per Obit

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