Historic Cemetery

Lone Star Cemetery

a.k.a. Maise Family Cemetery, Little Star Cemetery

Texas
Location: Located in the Lone Star community, approximately eighteen miles NE of Fairfield off Hwy 84. Located north of Butler in the Lone Star Community behind the Lone Star Cemetery, approximately 18 miles NE of Fairfield. The Lone Star Cemetery is the first cemetery you reach upon entering this site, which accounts for the name confusion. When driving to this area, the first thing you will see on the left and at the corner of this cemetery is a wooden sign mounted on the corner of the fence on a post that reads “Lone Star Cemetery”. In looking over the area and seeing the large expanse of burial area and the separation of the areas by cyclone fence, you can see across the Lone Star Baptist Church. The front section of the cemetery fronts on the road; immediately behind this first section is a rusty barbed wire fence and behind this fence is the Mayes Cemetery.

Source: Freestone County Sheriff’s office by J. R. Sessions, Jr., Sheriff; Parsons, Kim, Ref. to Texas Cemeteries, 1988; Freestone County Historical Commission

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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