Location: JP-C029 Magnolia Cemetery Cemetery at Holly Springslisted as Wright #33 AKA Holly Springs Magnolia Cemetery Cemetery at Holly Springs.A Reference to Texas Cemetery Records Kim Parsons (1988); rootsweb.com; Jasper County, Texas Cemeteries Mildred S. Wright (1976); www.historictexas.net/cemeteries/index.html10 mi E. of Jasper on Jasper/Newton county line. US 63 north/west to 1408, on County RoadTHC site visit MB 9/24/04: E of Jasper, Tx. N of SH 190 on FM 1408, about 2.1 miles. Sign on road. Locked bar gate access, No Trespassing, Restricted access, no firearms, no dumping, no unauthorized use. Long wooded access road to church or funeral chapel building and large fenced cemetery. Formal site, considerable diversity of markers over time, including obelisks, curbing, local castings, scraped earth, fieldstones. Small child’s carne, some photo enamels. Iron fence posts around family plot, but fence gone. Marker trees, Cedar, Juniper, Oak. .Abundant floral grave materials, some US flags. Affiliations include US veterans, Rep of Tx.Approx 1.7 acres. GPS 30.55.15.51556N –93.53.37.08303WQuad 3093-333Low risk of endangerment, fenced, locked gate, sign, maintained, still in use, on map. 3093-333.
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.