Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Many of the pioneer families who settled in this area and established the Lafayette community in the 1850s immigrated from the southern United States. The 1860 burial of one-year-old Thomas J. Harrison, son of Georgia immigrants Abram and Harriet Harrison, is the first recorded in the cemetery. Land for church and cemetery purposes was set aside by J. M. Brison in 1870. Iron ore, mined commercially here in the 1890s, was used to mark several grave sites of the area's earliest settlers. The cemetery is maintained by an association organized in 1973. (1994)

Pleasant Grove Cemetery is a historical marker in Bettie, Upshur County, dedicated in 1994. 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 32.8990, -94.8734 near Bettie. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lafayette #1 (cemetery), about 1.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Lafayette Cemetery, Lafayette #1, and Lafayette #2.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5459011337. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.