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MT. ZION CEMETERY
QUEEN CITY, CASS COUNTY, TEXAS
LOCATION: Turn left on County Rd. 3659 from Hwy 59 North, 4 miles to Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Read by Jane Nunn & Melba Tims, 20-MAR-1995. Reading from North
to South. Updated 29-JAN-1996 by Irene Powell, Kathryn McAlexander & Melba Tims.
This cemetery is known to be predominantly black.
Mt. Zion Cemetery was originally purchased for a family cemetery. It was purchased from Eva Kennedy in 1926 by Frank & Miles Oliver for their families cemetery. They purchased 3 1/2 acres. 2 1/2 acres for the cemetery and 1 acre for the Mt. Zion C.M.E. church. Prentice Oliver & Preston Williams originally formed the Mt. Zion Cemetery Association. Present overseers are grandsons of the original founders. They are: Willie Ray Williams, Willie J. Oliver and Alford Oliver. This cemetery was purchased for an Oliver-Williams family cemetery. At times they had let a few people bury there that were not related. It is filling up, so now only members of these families can be buried here.
The Mt. Zion C.M.E. Church has been torn down & will be replaced with a new one in the near future.
Information given by Mr. & Mrs. Willie F. Oliver.
Extra information on obituaries donated by Aggie Mae Horsley.
The oldest known grave:
MCWHORTER Harriett 30-JUL-1868 O1-NOV-1898
Much more information and a list of internments can be found in
THE CEMETERIES WITH CASS COUNTY CONNECTIONS VOLUME 1
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