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Black plaque № 27413

Livingston, TX, United States

Forest Hill Cemetery. By 1905, all the lots in Livingston's Old City Cemetery had been filled, and community leaders began looking for a new cemetery site. Residents established Forest Hill Cemetery Association in 1906 and bought land from James and Arabella Henington on a hill south of the downtown

area. In November 1906, Arthur B. Garner was the first to be buried in the new cemetery. Community women formed the Ladies Cemetery Association of Livingston in May 1908; their purpose was to improve

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