Grayson County TXGenWeb
Chambers Cemetery
aka Mormon Grove Cemetery - aka Rockport Cemetery

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Photos by Dusty Williams

View Photographs taken by Gene Ulrich This cemetery contains many unmarked graves Mormon Grove Cemetery is located off of old Dorchester Road near the intersection of Old Dorchester Road and Ford Road. The cemetery is on the section of the road that runs East to West Several stones are laying on the ground. There is cow manure everywhere, which is evidence that cows rome through this abandoned cemetery Map Most of the information and photographs are from

     Mormon Grove, near todays Dorchester, was named for the campsite of a group of "Mormons" who had separated from the main church group in Illinois, known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. The body of the main church continued on from Illinois to settle in Utah. Many splinter groups formed and drifted elsewhere, they were excommunicated from the main church and formed their own churches. 
     One was lead by Lyman Wight who came into Grayson County in the Fall of 1845 and wintered in this "Mormon" grove. From there they moved southwest into the Texas Hill Country. Read more about them.

Unknown Markers

Bell, Robert b. 16 Oct 1814-22 June 1884 -Robert Bell was b. in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee, son of Thomas & Eleanor Tillery Bell

Compton, J.W.         19 Feb 1889 - 13 Feb 1911, son of Howard & C. Huffines Compton

Estes, Clark T. 29 Dec 1880 - 29 May 1899

Jenkins, Sarah C.  29 May 1839 - 16 Apr 1867

Moss, Dorothy & Tommy  Children of D.T. & L.T. Moss

Pitt, Jesse T.   28 Jan 1881 - 9 Jul 1881 Son of F. E. & N. E. Pitt  On Stone with N. E. Pitt

Pitt, N. E.   7 Mar 1848 - 11 Nov 1881  Wife of F.E. Pitt Stone with Jesse T. Pitt

T. M.  - Footstone

West, Barbara        12 Nov 1816 - 10 Oct 187?  Wife of J. W. West