Laughlin Cemetery

FM 487

Cemetery notes and/or description:

Located 3 miles east of Davilla off of FM #487.

The cemetery is on private property between Davilla and Lilac.

To find the cemetery go east on FM#487 3 miles (from junction of 487 and 437), it is past

Laughlin Road to the right. The access point is just past a white house close to the road

with a fairly large driveway. The access is a large red or rust color metal tube gate

with initials CA on it, it is locked. The cemetery is back about 3/4 to 1 mile back along

the R/H side of this fence line. As you follow the fence line back on the right when the

wooded area starts that's the Laughlin Cemetery. This cemetery has been abandoned, and it

is very overgrown with trees, cactus, vines and other poison ivy and is in very bad

condition. The cemetery is about 3 acres. Thirty-two tombstones have been located, very

few are still standing and undamaged, as cattle have had access, through a damaged fence.

Efforts are currently under way to restore it, with the consent of the owner, Mr. Mike

Adams.

The Reverend David Ross originally owned this land. In 1862, his son-in-law James

McClelland Laughlin and daughter Mary Green Ross-Laughlin purchased the land from him and

set aside the acreage on which the cemetery now rests. The Graves family, descendants of

Penelope W. Laughlin-Shinault, later owned this land.

Thanks to Brenda Neyra for her work in transcribing this cemetery and the efforts to

restore it.

Brenda Neyra FAG (#46633653)

(thanks to Mr Clay Riley for providing these directions)

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