STIMSON CEMETERY - ALLEN
US75 33.142N 96.663W
US75 33.142N 96.663W
At one time the Stimson Cemetery was a lovely cemetery with large trees and surrounded by a fence. COLLIN COUNTY CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS I lists 7 graves for the cemetery. All of the people were related. The Stimson name is mistakenly spelled with a "p" on the stones. These Stimsons were related to the Stimsons and Boyds, who lived near Nevada. Only stones for this cemetery were moved to Abston Cemetery in about 1985. The bodies are still here. For years the farmer plowed around the cemetery. After the stones were moved, a new farmer was found who would plow under the cemetery. The pictures are of the Stimson stones in the Abston Cemetery. They are in the back on the southwest in that cemetery.
One acre of land was set aside for the cemetery in Isaac Stimson's will, dated October 27, 1877. In it he stated that the land not be disposed of. A copy of the will is in the book OUR STIMSON CLAN AND KIN, which is in the McKinney library. Attorney Roland Boyd was responsible for moving the stones to the Stimson plot in the Abston Cemetery. He was a relative. The other relatives were not consulted.
The city of Allen has allowed development of the land behind Ridgeview Memorial Park. At present the eastern side of CR 196 is scheduled for development. This cemetery is probably lost. No one agrees on the location of it before it was plowed under
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough
The original immigrant in the Stimson family to Collin County, Isaac Stimson, together with his wife Rachel O., together with other members of their family, who died from 1858 to 1877, are buried in a small family burial plot in a grove of trees just west of the Ridgeview Cemetery, southwest of McKinney. Daniel M. Stimson was buried in the Abston Cemetery with the Abston family north of Lavon.
COLLIN COUNTY, PIONEERING IN NORTH TEXAS, Capt and Helen Hall, p298.
One acre of land was set aside for the cemetery in Isaac Stimson's will, dated October 27, 1877. In it he stated that the land not be disposed of. A copy of the will is in the book OUR STIMSON CLAN AND KIN, which is in the McKinney library. Attorney Roland Boyd was responsible for moving the stones to the Stimson plot in the Abston Cemetery. He was a relative. The other relatives were not consulted.
The city of Allen has allowed development of the land behind Ridgeview Memorial Park. At present the eastern side of CR 196 is scheduled for development. This cemetery is probably lost. No one agrees on the location of it before it was plowed under
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough
The original immigrant in the Stimson family to Collin County, Isaac Stimson, together with his wife Rachel O., together with other members of their family, who died from 1858 to 1877, are buried in a small family burial plot in a grove of trees just west of the Ridgeview Cemetery, southwest of McKinney. Daniel M. Stimson was buried in the Abston Cemetery with the Abston family north of Lavon.
COLLIN COUNTY, PIONEERING IN NORTH TEXAS, Capt and Helen Hall, p298.
