San Augustine County, Texas

The Cradle of Texas Independence

Whitton Cemetery
Printed with permission of the San Augustine Public Library Board of Directors.  Originally contributed by Mrs. Sallie Richards Whitton and Mrs. McXie Whitton Martin.

Location:  4.2 miles from San Augustine Court House north on FM 3230.  Turn right on FM 1279 and travel .4 of a mile.  Turn left on the old Calgary Road at the railroad track.  Travel .2 to the fork, keep left; go .2 mile cross the railroad track. .3 to another fork, keep left, .4 to a tri-fork, keep straight, go .3 mile.  The Whitton cemetery is located on the right.  At one time this was the old Whitton home place.  There is a large rod iron gate with a 10 foot arch over it with the inscription "Whitton Cemetery".  This was erected by Mrs. Lela Whitton Hagarty in 1963.  The acres of land have been reserved for the cemetery.

The first person to be buried in the Whitton Cemetery was John Jasper Whitton, born 30 January 1851 in Rusk County, Texas.  He died 25th July 1865 at the home of his mother and father where the cemetery is now located.  John Jasper had planted a red rose bush in the southwest corner of the yard, and his parents, William and Lydia Whitton, thought it would be befitting to bury him by the rose bush, thus began the Whitton Cemetery. 

There are 10 graves in the Whitton Cemetery that have monuments.  39 unmarked graves can be counted.  The identity is known on seven of these graves.  Several other graves are members of the Enoch Whitton family and the Rivers and Chance Families.  Names of the remaining graves have long been forgotten.  They are not members of the William Washington Whitton Family buried in unmarked graves, they have all been accounted for.  The Baggett brothers were killed when lightning struck them, 30 July 1912.

 
NAME BIRTH DEATH FATHER MOTHER
BAGGETT, A.J. (Andrew J.) 2-Sept-1891,-Texas 30-Jul-1912 Baggett, Andrew Gaston  Whitton, Caroline Matilda
BAGGETT, J.W. (John William) 23-Sept-1883,-Texas 30-Jul-1912 Baggett, Andrew Gaston  Whitton, Caroline Matilda
BAGGETT, Madelmer 20-May-1889,-Texas 2-Oct-1897 Baggett, Andrew Gaston  Whitton, Caroline Matilda
BAGGETT, T.B. 28-Oct-1886 30-Sept-1888 Baggett, Andrew Gaston  Whitton, Caroline Matilda
BAKER, Nancy Itassie 30-Oct-1889 16-Oct-1890 Baker, Charles Eugene  Whitton, Mary Comal
McKINNEY, Mary Ann Whitton 1839@,-Georgia 1870-1879@ Whitton, William Crawford  Hanson, Catherina
McKINNEY, Westmoreland Jan-1830@ after-1900 McKinney, Henry H.  Sanders, Manerva
RIVERS, Catherine (Cassie)(Whitton) 1834,-Georgia 1870-1880@ Whitton, William Crawford  Hanson, Catherina
WHITTEN, Twin Infant Sons '1918 '1918 Whitten, Idell B. Sr. Copeland, Delie
WHITTON, C. M. (Charles M.) 28-Jun-1901 .-3-Jan-1903 Whitton, Andrew Jackson  Baggett, Nancy Jane
WHITTON, Catherine Hanson 7-June-1802,-Georgia ca-1893 Henson/Hanson, William  ?, Ann
WHITTON, John Jasper 30-Jan-1851,-Texas- 25-Jul-1865 Whitton, William Washington  Hughes, Mary Lydia
WHITTON, Lydia (Mary Lydia Hughes) 7-Feb-1824,-South-Carolina 3-Nov-1905 Hughes, Benajah  Benton, Mary Lydia
WHITTON, Pinkney Henderson 2-Aug-1859,-Texas 18-Jun-1904 Whitton, William Washington  Hughes, Mary Lydia
WHITTON, Thomas Lee 10-Apr-1885 25-Sept-1886 Whitton, James Benjamin  Baggett, Ida Lavinia
WHITTON, William Washington 13-May-1818,-Georgi 20-Feb-1915 Whitton, William Crawford  Hanson, Catherina
WHITTON, Zula (Jan)-1900 '1902 Whitton, Pinkney Henderson  Fulmer, Mary

 

 

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