FIRST -- Burial at Grimes Cemetery, nr Jacksonville TX
N 31° 59.966 W 095° 16.341
15R E 285338 N 3542628
Little Cassandra "Ella" Grimes is the first person buried on the part of the Grimes family farm that became Grimes Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMPWBV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2015
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Grimes cemetery is located near Jacksonville TX. It began as a family cemetery with the grave of their 17-year-old daughter Cassandra "Ella" Grimes, who died in 1883. Her grave was marked much later amid efforts to preserve the history of this old cemetery.
Her tombstone reads as follows:
"CASSANDRA GABRIELLA 'ELLA' GRIMES
Feb. 7, 1866
Apr. 20, 1883
FIRST BURIAL AT GRIMES CEMETERY"
The cemetery is marked with a state historic marker nearby that reads as follows:
"GRIMES CEMETERY
Benjamin Franklin Grimes came to Cherokee County in 1852 with his parents, Isaac and Sara Wilkinson Grimes. In 1859, Benjamin married Mary Jane Wallace, and to this union were born ten children. For a living, he operated freight wagons. He also served in the Confederate army. On April 20, 1883, Grimes buried his daughter Cassandra Gabriella here on his family's land. Her grave was the first in what became the family cemetery; several of the other Grimes children, as well as Benjamin and Mary Jane, would later be interred here. Still in use, the cemetery has more than 80 graves, including those of 12 veterans.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2002"
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 04/21/1883
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