Remains of the Atchison Family Cemetery,
Exact location of the graves is unknown
View Photographs and article written in 1955
about the cemetery and the Stone Fort.

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Photographs & Added Information by Jerry O. Park 
& some additonal information and names by Susan Hawkins

View Map
Robert Atchison family cemetery on Rockport road.
The Cemetery was destroyed about 1960 
and the stones stacked in a pile.
View Photographs

View Photographs from 1955.

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Known Burials:

Little Dovie                     Jun 23, 1884 - Feb 11, 1886 
  daughter of A.H. & S.P. Achison.

Robert Achison - born 22 Dec 1806? - ? (died -thought to be about 1894)

Laura B. Atchison born Grayson County, Tx, 22 Jan 1846 -  2 Jul 1862

Lewis Cass Atchison -  Sep 1818 -?

Lucinda Jane Atchison ,the first white child born in Grayson Co. on Aug. 5,1844 -1 Sep ????

Lynn Boyd Atchison

Mary Garrison Atchison 9 Aug 1808 – 17 Jul 1880  Wife of Robert Achison

(three other Achison children , burial location unknown. 
see notes on the one child surviving to adulthood - below on this page)

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 In Vol. 1 of the "Grayson County History" by Frontier Village , Vol.1 Page 122 - it states- that robert Atchsion was born in 1806 and came to Grayson County from Hernando, Miss.  in 1844 with his wife Mary Garrison. She was born in 1808 and they married in 1834.
They had 8 children, 3 of them in Miss. 
Only one lived to grow up, that was Sallie Atchison born in Grayson County in 1851.  Sallie wed Alexander H. Etchison 
( *what are the chances of meeting and marrying someone with that name? )

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View Information from the 1880 Census on this Family
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Achison Slaves are buried nearby, read description