Chambers County

Cemeteries

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FRANKLIN Cemetery

Highway 562 ca 12 miles so of jct FM 1985 on Robbins property, overlooking Trinity River Channel

FRANKLIN, Colville Feb. 23, 1863 Dec. 29, 1930

FRANKLIN, Richard C. Feb. 10, 1903 Aug. 11, 1936

Father of Colvillie is buried here in unidentified grave.

9 graves marked by iron rods, no ID. Tradition that these were cut from railroad tracks washed into Smith Point during the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Mr. J.E. Robbins told compilers his grandfather had buried- two “strangers” on his property, near the Franklin Cemetery.)