Shipp's Mill Cemetery
Red River County, Texas, USA
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With the closing of the mill and the changing of the road to the present location, the cemetery is now cut off from any country road. There is no easy way to reach the old cemetery. Possibly the best way to go to the area now is to go north of Bagwell on the current Bagwell to Manchester road to the crossing of Dinwiddie Bayou, find a place to pull off the road and then head west along the bayou until you reach the old washed-out trace that was the Midway to Manchester road. It is suggested that you invest in a GPS device and then, using it, retrace to the coordinates given earlier. This is not a Sunday afternoon excursion and is not for someone wanting a short pleasant walk in the woods. This is an extremely primitive area. It is badly overgrown and is full of mosquitos and snakes.
All that remains of the old burying ground at this time, 29 Sep 2003, is a single stone marker as the old wooden stobs have long since been burned or rotted. On the above date, we were guided to the area by Delma Gibbs and his sister, Venita Jo Gibbs Oldfield Morris. We remained on the sight for a short hour filming and taking pictures and locating the old fence corners of the cemetery. From what was found the cemetery is about 20 feet by 60 feet in size and possibly contains about 10 to 15 graves. About half of the site has been used as a bull-dozer dump area and as such is over-filled to a depth of about 24 to 30 inches with topsoil. We were able to locate three of the four corners of the cemetery and possibly with more time the last of them could be found. Remember, this is on International Paper Company land and is to be entered only with their permission. There has not been a set-aside found in the County Clerk's office for this cemetery. As of 31 Dec 2013 this cemetery has 2 documented burials.
All information for this cemetery location/notes/burials is from the books ‘Burial, Cemetery and Death Records for Red River County, Texas' by Lawrence and Sue Dale, Copyright © 2014.
With the closing of the mill and the changing of the road to the present location, the cemetery is now cut off from any country road. There is no easy way to reach the old cemetery. Possibly the best way to go to the area now is to go north of Bagwell on the current Bagwell to Manchester road to the crossing of Dinwiddie Bayou, find a place to pull off the road and then head west along the bayou until you reach the old washed-out trace that was the Midway to Manchester road. It is suggested that you invest in a GPS device and then, using it, retrace to the coordinates given earlier. This is not a Sunday afternoon excursion and is not for someone wanting a short pleasant walk in the woods. This is an extremely primitive area. It is badly overgrown and is full of mosquitos and snakes.
All that remains of the old burying ground at this time, 29 Sep 2003, is a single stone marker as the old wooden stobs have long since been burned or rotted. On the above date, we were guided to the area by Delma Gibbs and his sister, Venita Jo Gibbs Oldfield Morris. We remained on the sight for a short hour filming and taking pictures and locating the old fence corners of the cemetery. From what was found the cemetery is about 20 feet by 60 feet in size and possibly contains about 10 to 15 graves. About half of the site has been used as a bull-dozer dump area and as such is over-filled to a depth of about 24 to 30 inches with topsoil. We were able to locate three of the four corners of the cemetery and possibly with more time the last of them could be found. Remember, this is on International Paper Company land and is to be entered only with their permission. There has not been a set-aside found in the County Clerk's office for this cemetery. As of 31 Dec 2013 this cemetery has 2 documented burials.
All information for this cemetery location/notes/burials is from the books ‘Burial, Cemetery and Death Records for Red River County, Texas' by Lawrence and Sue Dale, Copyright © 2014.
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- Added: 1 Sep 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2368532
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