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LITTLE EGYPT, TEXAS. Little Egypt was located just north of Northwest Highway between Ferndale and Audelia, near White Rock Lake within the city limits of Dallas in Dallas County. The community began after the Civil War, when the site was deeded to former slaves Jeff and Hanna Hill, when they were freed by their master in 1865. By 1870 they had built the Little Egypt Baptist Church, and the community became known as Little Egypt because the residents were delivered from bondage, as in the biblical story. Though Little Egypt was officially within the Dallas city limits, it remained a distinct community until 1962, when developers bought the thirty to thirty-five acre tract, which was across the street from Northlake Shopping Center, for retail development. Adjacent to the White McCree cemetery is a Black cemetery. According to the County records Jeff Hill, George, John and Monroe Parker filed a deed in 1896 for part of the property declaring it "solely for graveyard pur0oses for the interment of the colored people in the community." Twenty-five dollars was paid to J. E. Griffin for the one acre, more or less. The head stone for Jeff Hill who is buried in this section says that he was a Private in the Ordnance Department in WWI. Jeff Hill had a grocery store in "Little Egypt" and was a member of the Little Egypt Baptist church. He died in 1947. Among the others buried here are Robert Parker, 1920, W. C. Hunter, 1926 and Lily Gidding, 1914.
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