COLLEGEPORT CEMETERY

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COLLEGEPORT CEMETERY

Historic Texas Cemetery

Photo courtesy of
G. W. Franzen

Historic Texas
Cemetery Dedication

Collegeport Cemetery

The town of Collegeport was founded in 1908, and this site was used as a cemetery for area residents. Early burials include those of Elizabeth Palmer and Harry Sundstrom. Several burials are marked by Roman numerals set into shell concrete. The King's Daughters organization maintained the cemetery from 1921 to 1958, when the Collegeport Cemetery Association was formed. In 1961, Hurricane Carla destroyed most of the cemetery records. Members of the community have always tended the burial ground, from men in the early days digging the graves to those funding operation and maintenance projects today.

Historic Texas Cemetery - 2002

Directions: Turn on FM 1095 at El Maton (Tidehaven School) and continue to the Collegeport area. Turn right on Old River Road and proceed about a mile to a gate. The cemetery is located in the area near the bay. Be sure to close the gate going in and leaving unless you want to round up cows before you leave!

Collegeport Cemetery Subscriptions 1926

Kundinger, Hall, Merck, Hunt, Walters, King, Liggett, Nelson, Holsworth, Corse, McNeil, Jeter, Sap, Hale, Richman, Shrivers, Heisey, Bowers, Spoor, Welsby, Murray, Clapp, Evans, Chapin, Pierce, Sims, Cable, Stallings, Brown, Hale, Bowan, Fulcher, Mills, Chiles, Beamer, Boeker, Janes, Franzen, Carrick, Haisley, Jenkins, Hill, Cline, Jackson, Dickenson

The earliest existing list of Collegeport burials was compiled by L. E. Liggett in the late 1920s. Of the 24 names on the list, 13 are numbered.
Those 13 names are believed to correspond with stones in the cemetery that have only a Roman numeral as an inscription.
The following list includes all of the 13 names as well as a number 14 which was not on the original list.

NAME	PIC	BIRTH	DEATH	INSCRIPTION	VET	MARKER
Ackerman, Carl James	PIC	01 Mar 1900	15 Jan 1983			M
Ackerman, Emilie W.	PIC	30 Sep 1913	22 Aug 1985			M
Bagley, Elizabeth E.	PIC	10 Nov 1889	16 Jan 1958			M
Bagley, Infant Girl		19 Nov 1940	19 Nov 1940	[d/o William Wyman & Vivian Mary Clark Bagley]		UM
Bell , Tabitha Williams Reeves		22 Mar 1828	19 Dec 1910			XI
Bonnett, Benjamin Lewis	PIC	29 Nov 1839	11 Feb 1932	Co K 43 Ohio Inf His life an ideal, his memory an inspiration	CWU	M
Bonnett, Nannie K. Brown		18 Oct 1852	06 Apr 1938			UM
Burnett, Dorothy M.	PIC	17 Jan 1908	31 Mar 1984			M
Cable, North "Butch"		May 1866/67	25 Nov 1936			UM
Camacho, Severe			22 Feb 1931	[about 69 yrs old]		UM
Christmas, Ida	PIC	23 Jan 1912	16 Mar 1979			M
Christmas, Luby	PIC	12 Sep 1906	30 Aug 1989			M
Christmas, Nellie	PIC	23 Feb 1909	27 Sep 1934			M
Christmas, Baby Boy						XI
Draught, Gust	[This name was II on the roman numeral list, but believed to refer to Axle Robert Drott who was the brother of Gustaf Drott.]					II
Drott, Axle Robert	PIC	25 Jul 1891	19 Apr 1911			UM
Duckworth, Clarence		06 Sep 1918	06 Sep 1918	[s/o George Albert & Della Margaret Hallett Duckworth]		VI
Fields, Bryan Lee	PIC	06 Aug 1953	11 Mar 2017			M
Franzen, Alexander	PIC	14 May 1923	09 Aug 2002			M
Franzen, Carl O.	PIC	1918	1921	[s/o Gustave Albert & Ellen Bladlund Franzen]		M
Franzen, Charles Ray	PIC	22 Jul 1956	23 Jul 1956	[s/o Gustave Albert & Ida Mae Margaret Wilson Franzen]		M
Franzen, Christine Elizabeth Shelby	PIC	21 Aug 1973	06 Feb 2012	[w/o Thomas Franzen]		M
Franzen, Clifford A.	PIC	23 Dec 1910	16 Sep 1997		WWII	M
Franzen, Ellen Bladlund	PIC	20 Aug 1886	05 Jun 1970	[w/o Gustave Albert Franzen]		M
Franzen, Gustave Albert	PIC	18 Jan 1881	08 Apr 1945	[h/o Ellen Bladlund Franzen]		M
Franzen, Gustave Albert "Goose"	PIC	21 Mar 1917	10 May 1997	Married Nov. 22, 1952 [h/o Ida Mae Margaret Wilson Franzen]		M
Franzen, Gustave Albert III	PIC	12 Aug 1955	13 Aug 1955	[s/o Gustave Albert & Ida Mae Margaret Wilson Franzen]		M
Franzen, Ida Mae Margaret Wilson	PIC	14 Mar 1922	11 Feb 2018	Married Nov. 22, 1952 [w/o Gustave Albert "Goose" Franzen]		M
Gardner, Ellen	PIC	11 Feb 1867	13 Aug 1941			M
Gregory, John Daniel		08 Sep 1871	25 Dec 1930
Halfen, Jack Harold	PIC	11 Dec 1913	11 May 1985			M
Halfen, Mary Magdalene	PIC	10 Mar 1915	26 Feb 2007			M
Halick, Infant boy		10 Oct 1923	12 Oct 1923	[s/o John & Adelaide R. Bonneau]		UM
Hamilton, James Henry "Uncle Dumm"		25 Nov 1850?	11 Oct 1922			UM
Harris, Perlee			11 Sep 1934	[age 78]		UM
Heemer, Charles Albert	PIC	05 Jul 1905	05 Jun 1914	[s/o John William & Corrie Soper Heemer]		M
Heemer, Evelyn	PIC	07 May 1903	17 Jun 1914	[s/o John William & Corrie Soper Heemer]		M
Hendrix, George Rupert	PIC	11 Feb 1893	26 Jun 1937	[h/o Hester Belle Fulsher Hendrix]	WWI	M
Hendrix, Thomas Warren	PIC	24 Jun 1923	24 Jun 1923	[s/o George Rupert and Hester Belle Fulcher Hendrix]		V
Hernandez, Jose M.	PIC	1875	1928			M
Hill, Jack F.	PIC	09 Sep 1876	02 Dec 1934			M
Hill, Thomas Jefferson	PIC	07 Sep 1837	23 Nov 1921			M
Hill-Primm	PIC			[plot marker]		M
Huffhines, Tressie	PIC	29 Oct 1916	14 Mar 1931	[d/o Adonia Wright & Maggie Fitzgerald Huffhines]		M
Hunt, Teddy	PIC	c1911	30 Dec 1919	[s/o A. G. & Iona Corporon Hunt]		X
Hurd, Burton D.	PIC	18 Dec 1868	03 Nov 1936	Father		M
Hurd, Dena D.	PIC	07 May 1871	02 May 1939	Mother		M
Jackson, Amelia Sampson		22 May 1892	02 May 1928	[w/o Daniel Jackson]		UM
Jackson, Daniel "Dan"	PIC	14 Feb 1866	02 Nov 1915	[h/o Amelia Sampson Jackson]		VIII
Jenkins, Annie Bell Duncan	PIC	22 Dec 1880	24 Mar 1953	Mother		M
Jenkins, Fannie E.	PIC	22 Mar 1908	07 Jul 1924	[s/o Freeland Lawrence & Annie Belle Duncan Jenkins]		M
Jenkins, Freeland Lawrence	PIC	09 Sep 1879	07 Jun 1955	Father [h/o Annie Bell Duncan Jenkins]		M
Jenkins, Sarah Emmaus Larrison	PIC	18 Feb 1850	13 Aug 1922	God is Eternal Life		M
Kevett, Joe Wilborn		05 Aug 1929	29 Jul 1931	[s/o Joe William Kevett]		UM
Klein, Alina	PIC	19 Feb 1912	09 Jun 1917	[d/o Jacob & Lyda Doering Klein]		XII
Unknown Kline child				[d/o Jacob & Lyda Doering Klein]		XIII
Kopecky, Martin W.	PIC	27 Aug 1874	28 Aug 1939			M
Kopecky, Mary M.	PIC	16 Jul 1877	02 Dec 1965			M
Kopecky, Rozina C.	PIC	20 Nov 1850	23 Jul 1936			M
Laxton, Infant boy		05 Aug 1938	05 Aug 1938	[s/o Jessie Edgar & Lucille Frankie Provence Laxton]		UM
Liggett, Roberta Mae	PIC	15 Dec 1918	25 Dec 1918	Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. L. E.		M
Maddox, Infant		13 Jun 1956	13 Jun 1956	[s/o Morris Ray & Kathleen Edith Welch Maddox]		UM
Mize, Infant boy		06 Jun 1943	06 Jun 1943	[s/o F. A. & Otha Gabbert Mize]		UM
Moore, Norman Horace		27 Jul 1937	25 Dec 1993
Myers, Alonzo R.		25 Jun 1874	30 Nov 1932			UM
Myers, Billie Jo		01 Jun 1931	01 Jun 1931	[d/o William A. & Minnie Eva Adams Myers]		UM
Palmer, Andrew J.	PIC	01 Dec 1853	21 Apr 1924	At Rest		M
Palmer, Elizabeth	PIC		24 Dec 1909	At Rest		M
Penland, Grady Clyde	PIC	29 Jun 1922	14 Mar 1931	[s/o Aaron A. & Vannie Huffhines Penland]		M
Penland, Sarah Marie		19 Nov 1930	28 Jan 1932			UM
Pfeiffer, Blanche Mae Victoria		28 Dec 1915	15 Jan 1916	[d/o A. D. & Edna Anderson Pfeiffer]		IX
Pfeiffer, William B. "Willie"		01 Jun 1888	29 Dec 1910	[s/o Wiliiam & Tabitha Deyke Pfeiffer]		VII
Pierce, Frances Margaret	PIC	26 Mar 1916	08 Nov 1920	[d/o Matt & Frances L. Smaha Pierce]		IV
Pierce, Matt Doyle	PIC	17 Jun 1914	04 Mar 1923	[s/o Matt & Frances L. Smaha Pierce]		III
Pierce, Infant boy		22 Dec 1940	22 Dec 1940			UM
Primm, Lizzie	PIC	03 Sep 1882	26 Jan 1959	[w/o Samuel G. Primm]		M
Primm, Samuel Gray	PIC	21 Feb 1877	03 Mar 1939	[h/o Lizzie Primm]		M
Rodriguez, Natalia		16 Apr 1939	04 Aug 1939			UM
*Sundstrom, Harry Sundstrom, Harry	PIC	1905	01 Mar? 1914	[s/o M/M John Sundstrom] According to the roman numeral list, Harry Sundstrom was I.		M I
Unknown						XIV
Vargas, Erminda		22 Jun 1953	16 Dec 1953			UM
Vargas, Josephine		18 Jun 1951	25 Jun 1951			UM
Ware, Bertha Mae		22 Jun 1929	16 Dec 1929			UM
Wells, Sarah P. Slone		11 Sep 1863	17 Jan 1931			UM
White, Infant Boy		17 Oct 1935	17 Oct 1935			UM
Wright, John Stanley	PIC	27 Oct 1889	20 Oct 1968	[h/o Wilson S. & Irene B. Wright]		M
Wright, Rena B.	PIC	14 Apr 1867	09 Oct 1958			M
Wright, Wilson Shannon	PIC	27 Oct 1862	18 Apr 1923			M

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Created Dec. 2, 2004	Updated Jun. 11, 2024

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