Granbury vicinity, TX, United States
The Colony Cemetery. Residents of the community known as The Colony came to Hood County with their white southern owners as early as the 1850s. After emancipation they began to settle in this area, and many acquired land under a state law which provided settlers with the opportunity to live on land
for as many as seven years before securing a patent for the property. "Doc" Foster and Simon and Hettie Hightower were such landowners. The Colony grew rapidly in the last years of the nineteenth cent
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