Sessions Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
This cemetery is the largest of three slave
graveyards which local tradition indicates were established in the area
in the early 1850s. It was named for delegate to Texas' Constitutional
Convention of 1875 and prominent local citizen Gustavus Adolphus (G. A.)
Sessions (1827-1902), who donated the land. The oldest burial here is
believed to be that of Anderson Carter, who died in the 1850s. The
cemetery is closely associated with the nearby Shiloh Primitive Baptist
Church and contains the grave sites of many notable former area slaves
and their descendants.
1993
location: at the intersection of FM 80 and CR
1080, Kirvin
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