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DENNIS CEMETERY
CASS COUNTY, TEXAS
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MARKER _
Located .6 mile north on CR 2929 off Highway 130 in the Cross Roads
Community.
This cemetery is known to be predominantly white.
Read by Audrey Rankin, O9 May 1994. Updated 29-OCT-1996 by Charles
Steger, Gerald Hammock, Irene Powell, Jane Nunn, Kathryn McAlexander
& Melba Tims.
The oldest known grave;
DENNIS Eliza Ann - 01-FEB-1807 27-JAN-1873
Beginning at the northwest corner, reading north to south:
Allen and Eliza Ann Dennis and their family were among the earliest
of this part of Cass County. In 1856, they purchased the land
surrounding this site. Eliza Ann Dennis died on 27 January 1873 and
. was buried on the family farm. Allen Dennis died in 1880 and was
interred next to his wife. The land surrounding their graves became
a family cemetery, which was later enlarged by a contribution of
land from the E. G. Smith family. ·
Among the over 300 burials in the Dennis Cemetery are those of many
Cass County pioneers including members of the Smith, Boughman,
Mason, Bufford, Stiles and Nelson families. The graveyard also
contains a number of unmarked burials. -
The Dennis Cemetery first appeared in County Deed Records in 1878
when the Dennis family sold the property to D. W. Webb. The two acre
plot was reserved for burial purposes, and in a later deed in 1890
it was referred to as the Dennis Graveyard. V
The Dennis Cemetery served as a gdwsical reminder of the early
settlement in Cass County, still a community burial place. It is
maintained by a cemetery association formed in 1976.
IN MEMORY OF OUR WAR VETERANS
CIVIL WAR ‘
B. W. Nelson
David Mason
John Reynolds
Joseph W.P.A. Bailey
Henry Dennis
B. W. Nelson
David Mason
Vietnam
Willie Paul Hill
Albert Glenn Hill
KOREAN
Randy Melon Hill
WORLD WAR I
Henry Smith
William A. (Bunk) Mosley
Otis McPherson
Robert Benson Lanier
Floyd Lee
WORLD WAR I I
John F. McIntire
Harden DeLoach
Robert Benson Lanier
Much more information and a list of internments can be found in
THE CEMETERIES WITH CASS COUNTY CONNECTIONS VOLUME 3
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