Located in Hunt County, Texas about 10 miles south of Greenville.
Entrance is on FM-2101 at CR-3520 (about one mile south of FM-1564).
The USGS National Mapping Information lists it (spelled wrong) as Weiland Cemetery USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Greenville SE Latitude: 330027N - Longitude: 0960331W
Topographical Map to help you find your way there.
The cemetery is comprised of three separate tracts of land:
Tract #1 250v by 100v deeded 10-Oct-1871 for sum of $100.00 notorized, but evidently never recorded at the county courthouse by James K. Yeary and wife M. L. Yeary to J. A. Steele, Peter Day, J. F. Bradberry, T. J. Coker, John O. Wilkinson
Tract #2 122v by 130v deeded 26-Oct-1881 donated recorded in Vol. 61(?) on Pages 261-262. by James A. Thompson and Ruth Thompson to John Bickley, Wm. Steel, and John O. Wilkenson
Tract #3 208.8v by 18v deeded 20-Apr-1888 for sum of $5.00 recorded in the Records of Hunt County, in Vol. W(I?) on Page 52 by Mrs. M. A. Ramsey and husband T. S. Ramsey to William Lynch, John Thompson, W. R. Steele
Tract #1 250v by 100v deeded again on 18-Nov-1909 for sum of $30.00 recorded in Hunt County Record of Deeds Book 169 Page 124 by James K. Yeary and wife M. L. Yeary to Henry Ballow, John Thompson, and A. N. Fanning
Per an expired mineral lease, total acrage is "6.33, more or less".
1.4 acres overlap not under cemetery fence at NE corner of cemetery land.
Professionally surveyed by Milton Rhea of Greenville (survey date unknown).
This cemetery was first listed in
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OF HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS - VOLUME III
Compiled by Robert Lee Thompson and Kathy Lynn Penson
(c) 1979 by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire
The Wieland Cemetery was more recently surveyed in Aug-2000 and again in April 2002 by Dianne Terry with help from her daughter, Jennifer, and her husband, Larry Terry, who is current president of the cemetery association.
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