Located in the Northwest part of the city of Mt. Pleasant, the Masonic cemetery has provided the burial needs for the city and county since 1888. It was started then by Thompson Morris and wife giving 5 acres to the Masonic Lodge to be used for cemetery purposes. The original deed states “The citizens of Mt. Pleasant concluded in a mass meeting that the Old Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is in such condition that the dead buried there is in such irregular manner that it is impossible to put the Cemetery in such condition as becomes Christian people---have selected a tract of land for a New Cemetery to be used for the burial of White People ONLY to be known as the Masonic Cemetery.”

Records show that those interred in the old Christian Cemetery were reinterred in the Masonic Cemetery and the Christian Cemetery closed. No trace of the Christian cemetery now exists.

All the lots in the Masonic Cemetery have been sold and currently there are no plans for expansion.

During the course of this inventory, the following anomalies were encountered: there were 6 unreadable funeral home markers (FHM); a marker that was found on the Lazarus plot which has only “Rose” engraved on it; a marker found on the Pittman plot that has “Selina” engraved on it; 4 small granite stones that say Bryan, Onie & Otis, Martha, Baby; 3 native stones, a marker that has only “Ann Margaret Sep ₁₈¹² 1927; 2 broken and missing monuments; 4 concrete encased graves with no identification; a petrified wood marker; a monument base with the monument missing; a footstone with the inscription T. W. P. but no monument; and a brick vault with no identifying information.

To reach the Masonic Cemetery from the Titus County court house take Jefferson Avenue north for 0.6 mile to the intersection with West 12th Street. Turn left onto West 12th Street and proceed about 0.3 mile to the intersection from the right with Branch Street. Turn right onto Branch street. The entrance to the cemetery is about 0.1 mile. Coordinates: 33^o 10.035' 094^o 58.440'.

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