Suggs Cemetery, Robertson County, Texas
      Suggs Cemetery, four miles east of Hearne, Texas, and located on a portion of the Francisco Ruiz League in Robertson County, Texas, is a small but well kept cemetery on State Farm Road 391 in the Black Jack community.
    Suggs Cemetery was so named when Calvin A. Suggs purchased 80 acres of land from The Texas Company on March 2, 1868 in consideration of two hundred dollars.  The note was paid in full in 1875.  It is believed the cemetery came in existence soon after Calvin A. Suggs acquired the land in 1868, and from its beginning has been Black Jack's community cemetery.  At this time there are about 200 graves with engraved headstones and that many or more graves with a sandstone for a marker.  The earliest burial date on a stone marker is that of Jera William McWilliams who died October 11, 1880.  All other stone markers are dated from the early 1880's to the present time.  Surnames of some of the earliest settlers include the Banks, Broadus, Burts, Dotson, Hay, Hill, Mayo, Kingsley, McWilliams, Timmons, Nunley, Upshaw, and Vaughn families.  It is reasonable to assume that Calvin A. Suggs and his wife Mary Suggs are buried in this cemetery in unmarked graves.
    In a conveyance dated February 15, 1897, Calvin W. Suggs and his wife Lula Suggs granted their interest in the Calvin A. Suggs lands to Sam Burts, et ux, et al, containing three tracts consisting of one 40 acre tract and two 20 acre tracts.  No mention was made of the cemetery in the conveyance, however the two acres upon which it is located was a part of it.  The cemetery's two acres were mentioned in a deed by and between Sam Burts and his wife Julia Burts, to C.F. Banks and Ira W. Fuller.  This deed covered 113 acres in the Francisco Ruiz League and was a portion of Calvin A. Suggs' 160 acre tract, and dated September 16, 1904.
    Calvin A. Suggs died intestate in Robertson County, Texas around 1877.  An affidavit to that effect was made by Sam Burts and his wife on February 15, 1897, in which they stated they had personally been acquainted with Calvin A. Suggs; that he died intestate on or about 1877, leaving his wife Mary Suggs, and children, namely: C.W. Suggs, J.M. Suggs, Hardy Suggs, and Miss M.L.E. Suggs, a daughter who never married.
    Sam Burts sold three tracts of land to C.F. Banks and Ira W. Fuller on September 16, 1904, totaling 103 acres, less than 2 acres out of a 40 acre tract set apart and dedicated by Sam Burts for school and church purposes.  No schools or churches were ever built on those 2 acres upon which Suggs Cemetery is located, however there would have been room for a school and/or church in addition to the cemetery.
    On February 21, 1941, Melinda Jane Banks, the widow of Ira W. Fuller, granted and conveyed unto Sam Rogers, as County Judge of Robertson County, the land upon which the Suggs Cemetery is located for the sum of $5,000 and stated in the deed that the land had constituted a public cemetery for many years.  She also stated that if there had been a previous deed, it appears to have been lost and that her deed was to fix the title and the boundaries of record from her, the grantor, as the record owner of said lands to Robertson County, Texas, The Grantee.
   
   
   
                                                                       From the Historical Marker Inscription:
    Calvin A. Suggs and his family came to Texas from Georgia in the late 1860's.  They settled in this area about 1868, and Suggs purchased 80 acres of land.  This cemetery was established on Suggs' land and has served as the principal burial ground for the Black Jack community for over a century.  The oldest documented grave here is that of Jera William McWilliams who died on October 11, 1880.  Many pioneer settlers of this area are also interred in the Suggs Cemetery as a reminder of the area's heritage.
    Dedicated in memory of the fourteen charter members of the Suggs Cemetery Association which met on September 18, 1958, at Bethany Baptist Church.  Emery L. Nunley presided and was elected the first committeeman, with Randall Broadus and Raymond Timmons being the other two committee members.  Mrs. Pauline Nunley was elected first secretary and Mrs. Ella Hill was elected first treasurer.