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CELINA CEMETERY 

Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, Joy Gough

Around October of 1879, when the first store and the post office were established There were settlers in the area before that time, many of them from Tennessee. The store owner, W. d. Burruss, asked Gov. Throckmorton, then a member of Congress, if he could establish a post office. Throckmorton asked him if a dozen people would get mail there. A post office was established with the name taken from where the post master was born, Celina, Tennessee. When the railroad bypassed the town in 1902, the town moved northeast to the railroad, about 2 miles. No evidence of the old town exists.

This is a large cemetery containing over 600 graves. It is surrounded by a 4-foot chain-link fence and has a sign over the entrance. The cemetery is well maintained. There is a historical marker. W. J. Bounds donated the land for a community cemetery in 1885, with the deed listed in Vol. 27, 0 249. The first burial was that of a small baby in 1884. The cemetery has a cemetery association.

Historical marker, 1976.

OLD CELINA CEMETERY

THE TOWN OF CELINA, SETTLED BY

NATIVES OF CELINA, TENNESSEE, WAS

FOUNDED NEAR THIS SITE IN 1870. THE

OLDEST GRAVE HERE IS THAT OF A

CHILD WHO DIED IN 1884. W. J. BOUNDS

(1830 - 1886) DONATED THE LAND AS A

COMMUNITY CEMETERY AFTER THE

DEATH OF ELIZABETH McWHORTER

ON FEB. 28, 1885. IN 1900 RESIDENTS OF

CELINA BEGAN TO RELOCATED THEIR

HOMES AND BUSINESSES ALONG THE

RAILROAD (2.5 MI. NE). BY 1910 ONLY

THIS BURIAL GROUND REMAINED AT

THE ORIGINAL TOWNSITE. A CEMETERY

ASSOCIATION WAS FORMED IN 1918.

SEVERAL MORE ACRES WERE LATER

ADDED TO THE CEMETERY, WHICH

CONTAINS ABOUT 600 GRAVES.

CELINA COMMUNITY CEMETERY

Celina

CEMETERY INDEX

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