Historical Marker Dedication, August 7, 2005

Shelia Thornton

Randy Skiles

Merlene  Goodgame

Bonnie Hilton

Betty Richardson

as   

Katie Johnson looks on.

Carroll Springs Cemetery

     The Carroll Springs Methodist Church and a school began meeting at the site in 1867.     The following year A. M. Carroll who owned property in Henderson and Anderson  

Counties, set aside nearly five acres here to 

be used for a school, church and cemetery.

     The community, which derived it's name 

from, the Carroll family and nearby springs

began using this site for burials as early as 

1859.  The earliest marked grave is that of

John Buck Hogg, who died in March 1859.

Although several others are believed to date

to that same year. Generations of area

pioneer families are buried in the cemetery

which is also the final resting pace of

veterans of American conflicts dating to the 

Civil War. Other area residents buried in

Carroll Springs cemetery include ministers

and schoolteachers. 

     Although the Carroll Springs school

consolidated with the Athens district in 1947

the Methodist Church continues to serve the

area today, the cemetery is maintained as a

perpetual care burial ground, and members

and friends of the community gather annually to remember those who have passed 

on.  

Historic Texas Cemetery  2003