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Latitude: +33° 41' 30.42"
Longitude: -96° 13' 57.12"

At the intersection of FM 1753 and FM 274 in the north end of Ravenna bear right on FM 274 and proceed approx. 6/10 mile to CR-1145. Turn east/right onto CR-1145 and proceed approx 8/10 mile to a not so obvious lane on the right/east. This lane is about 50 yards south of a yellow/brown brick house on the same side of CR-1145. Proceed down the lane about 1/4 mile to cemetery in the edge of woods. (This "lane" is not the road seen crossing the map inserts and bending back south to the cemetery. This is a cross pasture "road" seen as a tiny line on the sattelite map leading directly East to the woods.) The cemetery is fenced on four sides and fairly well tended.

Upper Union (Belfountain) Cemetery

Upper Union (Belfountain) Cemetery

The African American Belfountain Church (north of Ravenna) merged with the Siloam Church (even farther north) and formed the Union Church. The Siloam Cemetery then came to be called the Union Cemetery. The Belfountain Cemetery came to be known as Upper Union Cemetery.

This cemetery is about an acre in size and sparsely populated by markers. We suspect many unmarked graves. The oldest engraved stone marks the burial of three children of Henry and Callie Anthony, the oldest born & died 16 Jun 1885. The next oldest marker indicates a burial in 1936 with the majority of burials beginning in the 1950s with marked burials as recent as 2005.

We will be adding to the alphabetical listing from death records, obituaries and family information. The plot ordered list will remain as we found the cemetery in March 2009.

Alphabetical list with some names added from other sources.

See also: Plot ordered list showing many marked but unnamed graves

Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Notes
Anthony, Birdie	25 Aug 1890	18 Dec 1892	Child of H.C. & C. Anthony; one stone
Anthony, Infant	16 Jun 1885	16 Jun 1885	Child of H.C. & C. Anthony; one stone
Anthony, Nannie	15 Apr 1889	6 Nov 1889	Child of H.C. & C. Anthony; one stone
Brown, Alford E. (Dock)	28 May 1893	25 Jul 1953
Brown, Austin	17 Mar 1891	21 Feb 1979
Brown, Evia Cobb	10 Jul 1886	9 Feb 1974
Brown, Lemuel L.	1871	1947	stone with Libbie
Brown, Lenville	21 Jul 1904	4 Apr 1976
Brown, Libbie	1873	1961	stone with Lemuel L.
Brown, Theodore	25 Jun 1914	12 Oct 1959	Texas S1 US Navy World War II
Brown, Willie Elmer	Unknown	1926
Cobb, Charlie	1919	1989	PFC US Air Force World War II
Coffey, Alma	1900	1974
DeHorney, Almeta	21 Jul 1900	21 May 1939
Elder, Della Mae	7 Apr 1926	14 Feb 1987
Elliott, Eva Nell	14 Aug 1944	17 May 1995
Fitzgarld, Virgia	10 Feb 1911	25 Aug 1955
Gentry, Cleo	28 Aug 1927	20 Apr 1968
Gentry, Ernest	19 Feb 1905	30 Jul 1975
Gentry, Eva H.	1 Sep 1903	NDD
Gentry, Fletcher	12 Nov 1929	30 Dec 1948
Gentry, Henderson	1896	1981	Pvt US Army World War I
Gentry, Laura	23 Sep 1907	NDD
Gentry, Leonard	11 Aug 1905	25 Oct 1957	likely marked by bricks
Gentry, Lizzy		2 Jun 1946
Gentry, Odis	29 Aug 1904	9 Nov 1965
Hale, Estella	20 Jun 1895	26 Feb 1967
Hudson, Georgia	1943	2005
Lee, Lolie	6 Apr 1909	19 Mar 1914	Dau of F. & L. Lee
Matthews Jr., Eugene H.	30 Dec 1923	21 Nov 1988	Sgt. US Army World War II
Matthews, Jamia Ritae’	1 Jun 1995	11 Mar 1997
McFail Jr., Luther	4 Jan 1944	24 Aug 1982	SN US Navy Vietnam
Phillips, Reuben	28 Oct 1916	20 Apr 1936
Phillips, Russian	31 Jul 1919	5 May 1985
Taylor, Jo Ella White	18 Jun 1940	17 Jun 1979
Wheat, Callie	1871	1965	Aunt; stone with Alice White & Morrise White
White, Alice	1871	1961	Mother; stone with Callie Wheat & Morrise White
White, Dennis (Doff)	5 Dec 1910	27 Sep 1988
White, Eddie Pearl	25 Nov 1918	28 Feb 1991
White, Melvin	26 Jul 1923	19 Aug 2000
White, Morrise	1874	1953	Father; stone with Alice White & Callie Wheat
White, Ormstead	1901	1986	(funeral home marker)
White, Othacue	1911	1998
White, Ray	6 Apr 1916	28 Jan 1964
White, Roy	6 Mar 1894	30 Jun 1985
White, Tommie P.	28 Nov 1915	15 Jun 2005
White, Velma Ida Mae	19 Dec 1909	29 Nov 2003

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