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Black plaque № 27522

Granbury, TX, United States

Elm Flat Cemetery. A cemetery was established at this site in Nov. 1877 when Thomas B. and Elizabeth Stone (Anderson) Wells buried two young sons near their family cabin. Lucinda Wells, a freed slave who remained with the Wells family after emancipation, was buried here in 1889. In 1883, Elizabeth W

ells donated 1.5 acres for the establishment of a church and school for the people of the rural community of Elm flat. Mrs. Wells moved to Grimes county just prior to her 1908 death, but before leavin

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