SB-C010 Gravel Hill Cemetery-Antioch Church Cemetery AKA Gravelhill AKA Antioch Missionary Baptist Church& CemeteryAKA Connville CommunityUSGS point3193-233 Gravel Hill Cemetery, AKA Antioch Missionary Baptist CemeterySabine Co Hist Soc : Church now named Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. Off FM1592, access road, east of Rosevine USGS shows east of Rosevine, access road off of Hwy 1592, beside church. Sabine Co Hist Soc, Rootsweb: some photos. (ck website for update!!)Community hist.: “community of Gravelhill (at one time known as Connville) 7 miles north of Hemphill on FM 1592 … had its beginning on land granted to Joseph Mott by the Mexican government on June 20, 1835, and not long after this date it became a growing and established community” [Website note: “Gravel Hill Church, now known as Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, has its church homecoming and cemetery working every year on the Saturday before Mother's day. They would be glad to see some new or old faces! Covered dish.”]THC site visit MB 6/30/04: Rosevine, Tx area. On FM 1592 about 2.5 miles W of intersection with FM 2784. Cem. to W of church, adjacent to roadway. Large fenced formal site, entrance on E side near church. Great diversity of formal and informal markers over time, large and small. Some unique markers, fieldstone petrified wood. Some photo enamels. Sculptures, obelisks, curbing, gravel, mounding, obelisks, benches. Abundant floral and deocrative materials. San Augustine grass in some areas. Large Oaks at back, some Cedar marker trees. US veterans, WoW, Masonic. Approx 1.75 acres. GPS 31.24.15.33141N –93.55.44.66840W. Quad 3193-233. Low risk of endangerment: associated church, fenced, on map, visible from road, still in use, maintained. Tx Co Hwy map on-line.
Gravel Hill-Antioch Baptist Church
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Gravel Hill-Antioch Baptist Church is a cemetery in Sabine County, Texas. It is one of 105 cemeteries documented in Sabine County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 152 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.4044, -93.9292. The nearest cataloged historic site is Dennis Cemetery (historical marker), about 2.0 miles away. Others within a short drive include Scurlock-Sneed Family, Griffin, and Rosevine Missionary Baptist Church.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7403001005. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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