COLLINSWORTH CEMETERY - PLANO
Parker and
Preston Roads
33 02 30N
96 47 10W
Cemeteries of
Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough
This cemetery was started during a smallpox epidemic in May of 1895. The whole
area was quarantined from Coit Road to Preston Road and from Park Blvd. to
Spring Creek Parkway. A traveling salesman spent the night at the Collinsworth
home. The little girls who changed his sheets the next day caught smallpox. The
doctor gave the family incorrect advice about what to do for treatment. The day
of the funeral was dark and damp. Several of the Collinsworth relatives caught
smallpox at the funeral. About 15 members of their family died in the epidemic.
The cemetery was used until about 1920. The cemetery was deeded in Vol 181, p
11, with .22 acres set aside.
COLLINSWORTH CEMETERY
mother
Lucy Ann
wife of F. M. Collinsworth
born August 5, 1830
died May 12, 1896
THEY FOLLOWED VIRTUE AS THEIR TRUEST GUIDE,
LIVED AS A CHRISTIAN, AS A CHRISTIAN DIED.
father F. M. Collinsworth
born February 21, 1831
died February 14, 1907
Infant son of
D. M. and L. Collinsworth
born and died January 3, 1900
SUFFER LITTLE ONE
TO COME (UNTO ME)
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS
L. U. Collinsworth
born May 30, 1857
died May 12, 1895
A LOVING HUSBAND
A FATHER DEAR
A FAITHFUL FRIEND
LIES BURIED HERE.
J. J. Collinsworth
born October 24, 1849
died February 1, 1909
Francis A., wife of J. J.
born February 18, 1851
died September 17, 1910
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART
FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.
---Worth
born August 4, 1869
died May 19, 1895
Age 25 yr, 9 mo, 15 da.
OUR DARLING ONE
HAST GONE BEFORE
TO GREET US ON
THE BLISSFUL SHORE
COME YE BLESSED
Annie O'Dell Collinsworth
born April 20, 1886
died August 24, 1903
HER HAPPY SOUL
HAS WINGED ITS WAY
TO ONE PURE BRIGHT
ETERNAL DAY.
(Little)... le
Albert H.
Collins
-Worth
Rachel
wife of T. H. Collinsworth
died August 27, 1902
aged 71 years
Mary E. Collinsworth
daughter of I. B. & J. T.
Born ---
CEMETERY INDEX
Recommended citation:
Collinsworth Cemetery," CEMETERIES OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas
History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004]. |
