White Oak Springs Baptist Church Cemetery

Directions:
To get to this cemetery, take Hwy. 120 (Buchanan Hwy.) out of Dallas going toward Buchanan. After you cross Hwy. 278, proceed approximately 6 miles to Old White Oak Springs Cemetery Road. Turn left and when the road turns from black top to gravel start looking for the cemetery on your left. It is very rustic but worth a trip. A little history ­ The early records of the church were destroyed by fire when the home of a former clerk burned. Tradition has it that in 1856 a group of people met in a grove of white oak trees at the present site of this cemetery and organized the White Oak Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Lois Cole Wood stated that the cemetery formerly had more than 100 marked graves. Several of the markers, which contained inscriptions, have been removed from the cemetery.

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Name                    Birth Date      Death Date      Notes


Hitchcock, Cumi         11-02-1869      3-11-1885       D/O Jesse & M.J.
Hitchcock, Mary J.      1-17-1845       6-10-1892       W/O J.Hitchcock
Roberts, Hamon          9-26-1797       11-27-1882      H/O Nancy
Roberts, Nancy          4-29-1826       1-25-1900       W/O Hamon


On one of the remaining stones is stated ­ 
Family of Jesse Leatherwood, 
Erected by Annie, 1947.