Chambersville Cemetery

The oldest grave is in the middle, because the cemetery grew outward from one infant's burial. Joy Gough's survey describes about two acres on a hill, a four-foot chain-link fence, an arch over the drive and no gate, with the Giles family filling the whole front row. She names two burials: Lite Morris, who started the community of Roland, and Larkin Adamson, the storekeeper of Weston. The cemetery association owns a spare piece of land across County Road 281 where no one is buried yet, and the plot is nearly full.

What the plaque says

Chambersville Cemetery Elisha and Margaret Ann (Mannon) Chambers came to Texas from Indiana in 1847. Their infant son Lewis Cass Chambers died in 1853 and they donated the land on which he was interred for a cemetery and school. This site was once at the crossroads of a busy farm community of several homes near a cotton gin, school, church, and two general stores, one with a post office. Those buried here served their community and country as storekeepers, schoolteachers, postmasters, farmers, blacksmiths, soldiers, homemakers and musicians. The school was moved in 1931 and the first burial in that section took place in 1941. In 1999, about 950 graves graced Chambersville Cemetery. It continues to serve surrounding communities and remains a chronicle of Collin County history. (2000)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 10 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 30 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.

More markers nearby

• Chambersville Methodist Church — steps away
• Chambersville — steps away
• Gus Wilson — 1.7 mi
• Dr. William Edward Throckmorton — 2.8 mi