Black plaque № 20195

Trinity, TX, United States

Taylor Cemetery. Georgia natives James T. Durdin (b. 1819) and his wife Sarah Washington Ricks (b. 1819) and their five children settled here on a land grant they purchased from Joel Clapp in 1851. Two of their three sons, Washington Bruce and James Francis, died in 1852 and were buried on their pro

perty at this site. In their sale of this property to James E. and Mary E. Taylor in 1857, the Durdins set aside this site which they called the Durdin's graveyard. James Durdin died in 1859 and was b

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