East Texas Burial Ground Active Since 1862
1822 Earl Largent Rd, Lufkin, TX 75904
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Free to visit.
Access
Limited Access
Rural unpaved road access; grassy cemetery grounds; uneven terrain
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1862 · Civil War Era Cemetery · Angelina County Heritage
Largent Cemetery sits in the Bethlehem Community of Angelina County, west of Lufkin, in an area settled by farming families in the antebellum period. The earliest confirmed burial is William J. Largent, who died August 18, 1862 — early in the Civil War, during a period when East Texas communities were sending sons to fight while trying to maintain agricultural operations at home.
Martha Largent followed in November 1865, weeks after the war's conclusion. The cemetery that bears their name accumulated burials through the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1916, G.W. Dunn and W.E. Dunn formally deeded additional adjacent land to expand the burial ground, reflecting growth in the local community.
The cemetery is located off Earl Largent Road, reached via Ben Dunn Road from the FM 6 corridor between Highway 94 West and Highway 103 West. It occupies roughly four acres of Angelina County's typical pine-and-hardwood landscape.
Lufkin Paranormal Investigations has documented visits to the cemetery. Founder Chad Hughes has described it as one of the more consistently active sites in East Texas for paranormal investigation, citing auditory experiences and temperature fluctuations on multiple visits.
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Chad Hughes, founder of Lufkin Paranormal Investigations, has visited Largent Cemetery repeatedly over the years. His assessment, quoted by KTRE News, is direct: 'It's always active when we come out here, and every time we come out here, we always get some type of evidence.'
The phenomena Hughes describes fall into the auditory and physical categories: disembodied voices, objects moved or dropped without apparent cause, and temperature fluctuations without environmental explanation. He has not reported visual apparitions at the site.
The most circulated local legend involves a figure named Robert Faigen. The story holds that Faigen's spirit is restless, unwilling to remain in the cemetery, and moves between nearby homes seeking his family. He is described in local accounts as mischievous — not threatening, but prone to displacing objects and pulling small pranks on residents in the surrounding area.
Hughes has looked for a grave marker for Robert Faigen and has not found one. Whether Faigen was buried there under an unmarked stone, was interred elsewhere, or represents a purely folkloric figure is not established. The name does not appear in the cemetery's publicly accessible burial records.
The surrounding East Texas community has treated the cemetery's reputation with a mixture of local pride and genuine caution, according to regional coverage. Whether that reflects the site's actual history or its atmospheric setting — dense second-growth woods, a rural road that dead-ends at the cemetery gate — is left to the visitor to determine.
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A rural Angelina County cemetery in active use since 1862, set in the Bethlehem Community west of Lufkin. The oldest marked grave is William J. Largent, who died in August 1862. The approximately 4-acre grounds hold generations of local families. Access via Earl Largent Road off Ben Dunn Road.
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