Printed with permission of the San Augustine Public Library Board of Directors.  Originally contributed by  Mrs. Eugenia Chumley Westbrook, Earl Chumley and Virgie Dwire Adams

Location:  About 2.7 miles from the San Augustine County Court House on FM 353.  The cemetery is located to the right about 300 feet off the highway in a small clump of trees and bushes.  It is enclosed within a fence.  There are no markers in the cemetery. 

Born in Virginia about 1775, John Chumley moved his family to Arkansas before emigrating to Texas in March 1826.  John in about 1804 married Delilah Russell who was born 1790 in North Carolina.  John received a First Class Headright in January of 1838 in San Augustine County.  

John and two of his sons, Thomas and Armstead Chumley enlisted in Captain Thomas S. McFarland’s Company on 4th of July 1836.

When Delilah passed away she was laid to rest near their home site.  John joined her in 1859 and their son Alex in 1861.  The wooden crosses which marked their graves have long been gone.  The cemetery today is enclosed in a chain link fence on private property.