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To: Libloather

My great great grandparents homesteaded in Grayson County Texas. After searching over a period of three years, I finally found their farm. I already had photos of their graves thanks to the internet. Their farm and the graveyard were turned into the poor farm. I’m not sure when. It’s just west of Sherman Texas. It is now a small sort of languishing subdivision surrounding what must have been the farm pond. Up a dirt road is the cemetery. Around the outside of the cemetery are a bunch of graves of people who died while living at the Poor Farm. They are late 19th and early 20th century. My ancestors, specifically my great great grandparents and no fewer than six of their descendents who predeceased them and their slave are buried in the middle. The day we visited it had been very dry and nothing was growing. Very sad place.


12 posted on 10/21/2007 8:17:57 AM PDT by Mercat (If you can actually pull a booger out with a suction device, people can feel better)
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To: Mercat
Their farm and the graveyard were turned into the poor farm.

Did they lose it or sell it? There must be records somewhere...

13 posted on 10/21/2007 11:11:13 AM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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