Cemetery

Yarboro

Grimes County · THC Atlas #7185000605

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About this site

Yarboro is a cemetery in Grimes County, Texas. It is one of 136 cemeteries documented in Grimes County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 213 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.3343, -95.9652. The nearest cataloged historic site is Old Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.4 miles away. Others within a short drive include McDonald Cemetery, Hughey Chapel Cemetery, and Whiteside.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7185000605. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Yarboro Cemetery lies in southern Grimes County near the vanished railroad town of Yarboro, which grew up about 1879 on land owned by James Quincy Yarborough, for whom the community was named. Yarborough had built a steam-powered gristmill and cotton gin in the 1870s, and after the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway pushed a line through in 1884 the settlement became a local cotton shipping point. The small burial ground of roughly half an acre holds around four dozen graves dating from the 19th century onward.

Sources: texasalmanac.com texasescapes.com historic.one

📍 30.3343, -95.9652 · Grimes County

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Cemetery

Old Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery

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Historical Marker

Hughey Chapel Cemetery

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