This cemetery more properly should be named Douglass Cemetery as the two-S Douglass spelling is used on all except two markers replaced after 1976. Douglas Cemetery is located in the Union Cross community. Turn east on Palmer Road from State Highway 104. The cemetery is located at the end of Douglas Cemetery Road, less than 2 miles from 104. The first impression a visitor will have of the cemetery is of vandalism — many markers are toppled. But the cemetery has not been vandalized, merely neglected. A large percentage of the marked burials here occurred between 1895 and the 1920, then most of the families using the cemetery seem to have abandoned it. Over time the graves sunk in and no one filled them. The markers settled down into the depressions and toppled. At present the cemetery probably gets cut once a year. Grass was about 2-3 feet tall when David Donahue recorded this cemetery in November 2001.

Brenda Fiddler and Marie and Jim Pierce recorded this cemetery circa 1976. Their record appears in Henderson County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions ( Memphis, R. H. Harris, 1976), Vol. I, p. 27. They noted "at least 40 unmarked graves."