Description Information From:

"Supplement To Houston County, Texas Cemeteries Third Edition"

Located about ten miles west of Crockett on SH21, within the former Mustang Prairie Ranch.  The cemetery was destroyed in the 1930's.  The Third Edition Cemetery Book mentioned the placing of retrieved tombstones in Glenwood Cemetery (south section), and the Glenwood listing gave the marker information for Isaac G. and Lucy A. Haile.  Additional information received from Margaret Bishop expands the information on those buried in Haile-Parker Cemetery.

Summary Description By:

James Yarbrough

A recently identified burial ground, Haile-Parker was located 13 miles west or southwest of Crockett off SH-21 on the south side of the road. The Mustang Prairie Ranch house sits in the southeastern corner and for several years after the house was built, its blocks kept sinking to the extent that it could not be kept level. The reason for this was that the blocks were sitting on graves wherein the soil was not firm, according to Edison Rikard who remembered and located the site. Rikard also said that the graveyard extended almost half the distance from the house to the road, thence westward for 100/200 feet.

This was the family burial plot of Isaac Parker who represented Houston County in the several sessions of the Congress of the Republic of Texas from 1837-1845. He and his daughter Lucy, his youngest child, occupied the land.

She married first, a William F. Johnson (or Johnston) by whom she bore two daughters. When Johnson was killed in a barroom brawl in a Crockett saloon, Lucy married Samuel (Sam) Haile shortly before the birth of the second Johnson child. She and Haile had a large family.

Rikard said that possibly Johnson was buried in the family graveyard along with two of Lucy Haile's children and numerous blacks who were either family slaves or family members of slaves who wished to be buried near their people. Such family members were buried after the freeing of slaves.

Rikard recalled that when he was a child there were several stones in the graveyard. When the Mustang Prairie Ranch was established in the mid-30s, all stones were removed. One was carried to Crockett and set up in the Haile plot in the south sector of Glenwood. The others are believed to have been tossed in a nearby gully (county map shows it as 'Haile Branch' or 'Haile Gully').

Listings from:

HAILE

     Isaac G.; b. 7-31-1857; d. 10-4-1869

     Lucy Ann Parker Johnson Haile; b. 6-23-1830 in IL; d. 7-11-1875; d/o Isaac Parker; w/o Wm.

           F. Johnson; w/o Samuel Chester Haile

     Samuel Chester; no dates; f/o Texanna Haile Simpson; g-g-gf/o Margaret Bishop

     Decatur; b/o Samuel Chester

JOHNSON

     William F.

PARKER

     Isaac  (NOTE:  Unknown who this Isaac Parker listing is... possible error.  The Isaac Parker, born Apr. 7, 1793 and father of Lucy Ann Parker, is buried in the Turner Cemetery in Parker County, TX.