Historic Cemetery

Saunders Cemetery

a.k.a. Blocker

Bridgeport, Texas 76426
Location: 3.3 miles S & W of Chico. Saunders Cemetery is one of those hard-to-find, lost-in-the-pasture type. About half way between Chico and the Bridgeport Lake dam on Fm Rd 2952 (south of CR1536 and north of CR 1543) you turn northeast (a "Y") on to a gravel road with no sign on it. The road goes by Dynegy Hanna Compressor station and then to an oil well on the left. Go through an oil field gate to the right of the oil well and then down in the pasture to the right. This is more or less a four wheeler trail. About a half mile down the hill you will have to look hard to see the chain link fence back in the woods to your left. The cemetery is close to one of the crushers.
Graves: About 21 (1874-1965)

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