Location: Pine Ridge Cemetery - Recorded: POLK01, POLK02—Parsons; R. Peebles: “3.5 miles N o fth ejunction of FR 942 sand FR 2500, E of Leggett.” Polk Co Tx Cem/website: “Location: Pine Ridge Cemetery Road – …marked with signs on the highway and cross roads. From Hwy 59 at Leggett, take FM 942 East 11 miles to FR 2500, take a left on the dirt road (2500 Ext. Road). 3.5 miles on the dirt road (crossing the Upper Leggett Road), the road comes almost to a “Y” in the road, take the dirt road to the right (.5 miles on this road). Pine Ridge Cemetery was patented on September 18, 1944 by Nathaniel R. Hickman Jr, Noll Hickman and Willie Taylor as “Hickman Cemetery”, Tract 18, H. & T. C. on 2.3 acres. …Texas General Land Records. Note: There are 22 unidentified graves marked with old funeral home markers that cannot be read, rocks, bricks, homemade concrete markers and small white PVC crosses (made [recently?] and placed by Nollene Marsh.) Many graves. Index, earliest about 1841.” GNISHomemade markers. CSA; US Veterans WWIITHC site visit MB 3-13-05GPS and NOTES PENDING.
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.