Collinsworth Cemetery Traditional Cache
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This is a micro placed near the Collinsworth cemetery.
I remember coming here many years ago... before this neighborhood was built. While learning to drive, a driving instructor took us by here when it was overgrown and in a small patch of woods. Later in my early caching days my brother and I found it again while caching.
There is some important history here.
Please do not find in the dark.
The cemetery is a Texas Historical Cemetery and there are two markers before you enter the gate. There is also a nice new sign over the gate, a new marker, bench, and several of the old markers have been up-righted and repaired.
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 1926 when my grandmothers infant siblings were buried here.
View of the Cemetery circa 2013.
View of the Cemetery before the subdivision was built from the alley. Circa 2004
http://yourplano.dallasnews.com/2014/02/25/planos-collinsworth-family-cemetery-to-receive-historic-texas-cemetery-marker/
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