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CHAMBERSVILLE CEMETERY - CHAMBERSVILLE

CR206         33 18 22N        96 38 08W

CHAMBERSVILLE CEMETERY

ELISHA AND MARGARET ANN (MANNON)

CHAMBERS CAME TO TEXAS FROM INDIANA

IN 1847. THEIR INFANT SON LEWIS CASS

CHAMBERS DIED IN 1853 AND THEY

DONATED THE LAND ON WHICH HE WAS

INTERRED FOR A CEMETERY AND SCHOOL.

THIS SITE WAS ONCE AT THE CROSSROADS

OF A BUSY FARM COMMUNITY OF SEVERAL

HOMES NEAR A COTTON GIN, SCHOOL,

CHURCH, AND TWO GENERAL STORES, ONE

WITH A POST OFFICE. THOSE BURIED HERE

SERVED THEIR COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY

AS STOREKEEPERS, SCHOOLTEACHERS,

POSTMASTERS, FARMERS, BLACKSMITHS,

SOLDIERS, HOMEMAKERS AND MUSICIANS.

THE SCHOOL WAS MOVED IN 1931 AND THE

FIRST BURIAL IN THAT SECTION TOOK PLACE

IN 1941. IN 1999, ABOUT 950 GRAVES

GRACED CHAMBERSVILLE CEMETERY. IT

CONTINUES TO SERVE SURROUNDING

COMMUNITIES AND REMAINS A CHRONICLE

OF COLLIN COUNTY HISTORY.
Texas Historical marker, 2000.

 
 There was once a large community here. It was first called Chambers after Elisha Chambers. It had a school, a cotton gin, a saw mill, a sorghum mill, a blacksmith shop, a church and 2 stores. The school lasted until the 1960's, with the students going to McKinney for high school. The teacherage was also a millinary store and sold Easter hats. The Chambersville Methodist Church is still active. The land for a church, school, and cemetery was donated by Elisha Chambers. The Chambers home place was about 200 yards northeast of the cemetery. The cemetery was started in 1853 with the deed listed in Vol 5, p 86. The first person buried here was a son of Elisha Chambers, who died as an infant. He is buried near the center of the cemetery. This cemetery covers about 2 acres of land and is surrounded by a 4-foot chain-link fence. There is an arch over the driveway, but no gate.
 
 This area is near the East Fork of the Trinity River. A small branch runs north and east of the cemetery. The cemetery is on a hill, with the back of the cemetery being quite a bit lower than the front. The driveway goes down the eastern edge of the cemetery and turns west. That section can be muddy.
 
 Buried in this cemetery are Lite Morris, who started the community of Roland, and Larkin Adamson, who had the first store in Weston. According to Capt. Hall in 1952 there was a marker for Minerva Royall Mims, 1835 - 1920. Her father loaned $550,000 to the Texas Republic to help it survive. The Giles family covers the whole front row of the cemetery.
 
 The cemetery is well maintained and still in use. It is close to being full. It is maintained by a cemetery association. The association owns a piece of land on the east side of CR 281. No one is buried in it as yet.
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough