Family Cemetery, ca. 1862

About the Cemetery

This cemetery is a small family cemetery primarily for the David M Williams family. The land was originally patented to Hiram Cummings and his wife Sarah as a grant from the United States as bounty land given to officers and soldiers under an act passed by Congress on 3 Mar 1855.

Hiram and Sarah Cummings sold land to David M Williams on 13 Mar 1864, as stated on the deed located in Book F, page 435, in the Johnson County Records and Tax Administration office. The land was later sold to Wm Wright and eventually fell to Sheriff A L Flanner to auction off, and Ray Goodloe won the auction. After that time, the cemetery was sometimes referred to as Goodloe cemetery in articals.

At least one burial, and perhaps more, appears to pre-date the Williams family ownership of the surrounding land. The grave of Civil War soldier Frank Cook grave is here, with a legible death date of 1862, and would have been during the time ownership by the Cummings. The legible Williams family markers have death dates between 1875 and 1891.