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WILSON CEMETERY - CHAMBERSVILLE

CR228
33.282N
96.627W

Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough

This cemetery is hard to see from the road because of growth along the fence. The cemetery is exactly across the street from the Moore Cemetery. They are deeded together in Vol 237, p 103, as the Wilson Moore Cemetery. The families were related. Addison Wilson married Ann Moore. Their son, A. M. "Gus" Wilson, never married.

This is a small family cemetery. The stones for Gus Wilson and his father, Addison Wilson, are massive pieces of rough-cut granite. Addison Wilson also has separate head and foot markers.

The stone for Gus Wilson is one of the most unusual stones in the county. It has a hunting dog sleeping on top with the inscription "Joe and I are going home." The dog, Joe, is not buried in the family cemetery, as so many news stories say. He is buried by a fence in the south pasture. One story even says that the "fancy tombstone" is for the dog. Gus Wilson had the stone made and installed about 10 years before he died.

Gus Wilson was quite a character in the area. He had a lot of money that he either inherited or made in investments in railroads or power company stocks. He gave money to anyone, who he thought needed it. It is said that he gave away over $750,000 in his life time. He believed in hard work, and would give people money for their education, or pay their mortgage, if he thought they deserved it. He gave people farms and cars. People would borrow money from him without collateral. If the family fell on hard times, and they were hard working, he was apt to write off the loan. He always lived in the old cabin that his father had built. He always dressed in bib overalls or khaki work clothes, and he never shaved his beard. He did not talk much. When he did, it was likely to be a sharp comment. At the age of 90, a niece sent him a box of oranges. He said, "That was nice of her," and sent her $10,000 in power company stock. When he died in 1935, he was said to be penniless.

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