Location: Lima Cemetery Polk Co Tx Cem/website: “S. of Livingston, no descript.” L.Moore: “From Livingston, Hwy 190 S on Hwy 59, 2.2 miles, in the woods.” Lima Cemetery Submitted April 2002 by Cannon Pritchard This small cemetery is partially surrounded by a fence in deep woods and covered by heavy underbrush. It appears to have been a family cemetery in the early 20th Century. Location: Travel 1.5 miles from the Polk County Courthouse in downtown Livingston on U. S. Highway 59 South. On the right side of Highway 59 facing West the cemetery can be found half way in the woods between Highway 59 and the railroad tracks. The land area is unfenced. Three small upright white marble markers with no inscriptions on them. Note: Due to the difficulty of the low thick underbrush covered with poison ivy, there was no attempt to cut back the underbrush to probe the ground for other markers that may be covered. The cemetery is located on private property. Attempted THC site visit MB 7-19-05 w/ C Pritchard—revisit, walk in on a Sunday. Graves overgrown on highland, adjacent to auto salvage. GPS and NOTES PENDING3094-323High risk, remote, adjacent to auto salvage, on high line, wooded area.
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.