Historic Cemetery

Booth Cemetery

Greenwood St, Alvord, Texas 76225
Location: Between Lone Star and Chico. N of Booth home in pasture. Booth Cemetery is located out in the pasture east of Chico. From Chico go east out 1810 toward Decatur. Turn to the north on CR 1450 and go a couple of miles to a green gate on the left. The gate may be locked. You go straight west through the pasture for over a half a mile (there are two more gates that may be closed). The cemetery is more than an acre of woods and brush that has a chain link fence around it. There's no real road to this cemetery.
Graves: About 50 (1824-1886)

Source: Parsons, Kim, Ref. to Texas Cemeteries, 1988; Wise County Historical Commission; Gregg, Rosalie, History of Wise County: A Link With the Past, 1987; Rootsweb-Wise County Cemeteries North Texas

To address the problem of cemetery destruction and to record as many cemeteries as possible, the Texas Historical Commission offers the Historic Texas Cemetery designation.

The Historic Texas Cemetery designation was developed in 1998 to help protect historic cemeteries by recording cemetery boundaries in county deed records to alert present and future owners of land adjacent to the cemetery of its existence. Every county in Texas has at least one cemetery designated as a Historic Texas Cemetery through this program. The HTC designation is the first step toward preservation of a historic cemetery.

A cemetery is eligible for designation if it is at least 50 years old and is deemed worthy of recognition for its historical associations. The very nature of a cemetery being a landmark of a family’s or community’s presence is considered to validate the criteria of historical associations. Any individual, organization, or agency may submit a request for designation.

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