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 Oak Ridge Cemetery
N 33° 28.877 W 095° 58.282
15S E 223894 N 3708595
Texas Historical Marker at Oak Ridge Cemetery, noting the establishment and history of both this cemetery and the community it served. It and the Church of Christ across the road are all that really remain, located on FM 1550, northwest of Ladonia.
Waymark Code: WM1176W
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/29/2019
Views: 3
Marker Number: 20004
Marker Text:
Beginning as part of a rural community under the leadership of Arthur McFarland, S.D. Johnston, and Joel T. Hulsey, who served as trustees for land purchased on June 19, 1874, Oak Ridge Cemetery was first established by the Hulsey family. Two acres of land were conveyed by Joel T. Hulsey's son, John Wesley, and his wife, Naomi E. (Burnett), for use as a school and a cemetery. A school and church were soon built in 1879. The school closed in 1940, but the church known as the Oak Ridge Church of Christ still remains to this day.
Initially known as the Hulsey Cemetery, the Oak Ridge Cemetery contains the graves of several early Fannin County Hulseys, including Joel T. Hulsey and his sons, John Wesley, Wiley, Simeon, and William. Though the land was dedicated as a cemetery in 1874, records show that the land had already been used as a burial ground with the oldest burial being from 1860. The first document with the Oak Ridge Cemetery name to have been used was in 1939. The Cemetery has grown through the years with the Russell family, also descendants of the Hulsey family, having donated parcels of land both in 1972 and 1995. Many veterans from the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam wars are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. A veterans memorial granite marker was dedicated near the iron gate in 2006 in their memory.
The Oak Ridge Cemetery Association was formed in 1958 to provide maintenance for the burial grounds. Many of the Hulsey descendants still attend the Oak Ridge Cemetery annual homecoming on the first Saturday in May.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2017
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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