aka Burris Cemetery
Location : South on Highway 58, near Lufkin city limits, turn onto Wheeler Dr, then onto Havard Dr, straight across creek through the wooded area at end of Havard Dr (down a trail and to the left of a small pond)
Note: This is on privately owned property of the Havard family, please seek permission from them first before entering. Their house is at the end of Havard Dr.
These graves are located in what at one time was the garden area of Eliza Burrous, wife of Samuel Burrous, mother of 11 children, one of who was James Burrous. Her son was first to be buried here. He was a soldier home on furloough who went into town and didn't return when his mother thought he should have. Upon searching for him, Eliza found her son hanged in town (would today be known as the Crown Colony golf course area). She took her son home and buried him in her flower garden. This story has much more to it and further information can be found in the Kurth Memorial Library Genealogy Dept under the title of the "Squyers Biography". This story was told to me by a Mrs Ted (Ruth) Grant a resident of the Pinecrest Senior Citizens community. She is the author of several publications dealing with the recanting of Angelina County history and is still writing as of this date. Mrs Grant is largely responsible for the purchase of a newer tombstone for Samuel Burrous and is trying to get the others replaced also, as well as hoping to get this site marked as a historical site, cleaned, and preserved in a manner befitting a site with so much history.