Bobbitt Cemetery
Grapeland, Houston County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Bobbitt Cemetery Established 1876 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Bobbitt Cemetery was established in 1876 near Grapeland in Houston County, one of countless family and community burial grounds laid out as East Texas farming settlements took root after the Civil War. Recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2005, it preserves the resting place of the area's early residents. Such grounds often outlast the homesteads and churches that surrounded them, becoming the last physical trace of a vanished rural community.
Why it matters
Modest pioneer cemeteries are frequently the only surviving record of the families who settled rural Texas, making them vital anchors for local and genealogical history.
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