Little Mound Baptist Church and Cemetery

Unmarked burials in this cemetery may have begun in the late 1860s, predating the founding of the church. The oldest marked grave is that of E. Hoggue, who died in 1877. One year later, in 1878, residents of the thriving pioneer village of Calloway organized Little Mount Baptist Church and met for worship in a structure near the burial ground. Situated on a steep hill called "Little Mound," the one-room building had previously served as a Union church and schoolhouse. It stood on land owned by W. C. Bradshaw, who gave the cemetery and church site to the congregation in 1881. By 1897 the original church building had become too small. Lumber from the structure was used to build another meetinghouse across the road on property donated by J. s. and Sophronia Wallis in 1902. The second structure was torn down in 1925 and again all the usable lumber was incorporated in a new church building, erected on the site of the original. Buried in this cemetery is Confederate heroine Emma Sansom (Mrs.C. B.) Johnson (1847-1900), who at age 16 led Gen. N. B. Forrest's troops across the Black River in her native state of Alabama to attack Federal forces. She later moved to Texas and joined this church.

Little Mound Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historical marker in Gilmer, Upshur County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 48 historical markers documented in Upshur County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 108 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.7262, -95.1331 near Gilmer. The nearest cataloged historic site is Little Mound Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Rhonesboro, Harmony I.S.D., and Shady Grove Cemetery #2.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5459011325. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.