This is a private family cemetery enclosed by a fence on private property. It is located off East Caney Loop Road at the end of Whitehead Cemetery Road where you will come to a ranch gate. The cemetery is about 250 feet beyond the gate. Permission should be secured, at the house to the left as you enter Whitehead Cemetery Road, to enter the cemetery. All evident grave markers were photographed in May 2011.

Whitehead Cemetery — Recorded: POLK0l, POLK02—Parsons; R. Peebles: "3.5 miles E of Barnes just off FR 1745." Polk Co Tx Cem/website, J. Muson and B. Evins: "Location: From Barnes, East on FM 1745, go 3.5 miles to Caney Loop, turn right, 0.1 mile turn right on Whitehead Rd., road ends 0.1 mile at Historic Whitehead Home, Cemetery is about 100 yards behind home in fenced pasture. Permission should be obtained as this is private property. State Historical Marker at Homesite in front of Cemetery. About 32 graves, one unmarked. Index, earliest 1911." Topo Zone map in this file. GNIS L. Moore: "From Barnes, E on 1745, go 3.5 miles, right, 2 miles." Private propertyPermission requiredUS Veterans of WW I (?) Milt. Pol. Masonic emblemTHC site visit MB 7-20-05 w/ C. Pritchard: Barnes, Tx area. FM 1745 to E Caney Loop, 0.05 mile to old sign post without sign (Whitehead Cem Rd), R to house and gate, approx ___ ft. Cem is behind house approx ___ ft., house is maintained dog-trot house with THC marker. Fenced with diversity of formal markers, obelisks, commercial markers, fieldstones. Some graves have both early and more recent marker. Cedar and Crape Myrtle marker trees. Additional Crape Myrtles at corners. GPS and NOTES PENDING3094-343Low risk of endangerment, on map, sign on road, maintained, may still be in use, at residence.