Location: GM-C116 Trant Place Cemetery Trant Cemetery—Recorded: GRIM11—Parsons. SEE Grimes County Cemeteries, vols 1-5, John Maxwell, GCHS. H&P, Grimes Co Hist.: p. 724-5, “No map. Approx 17 graves, some unmarked, or marked only with field stones. Earliest marked about 1850s. Index.” [No details]Grimes Co. Cems, GCHC, vols 1-4, 1998-2002, J. Maxwell. “Turn off FM 244 at site of Old Keith Store, at CR 172. When CR 172 [CR 175] forks, stay to left. Road will curve twice and on third curve see sign ‘Ole Trant Place’. Locked gate, access permission required. Go through gate and to right to white board fence can be seen to N. . Fence is around part of cemetery, some graves outside fence, unmarked, other formal markers near marker Pecan trees by branch. Index. Approx 20 known burials, unknown unmarked others.” THC site visit MB 5/25/04 w/ J. Maxwell. Keith, Tx area. Tall formal gate and sign, arched entryway to house and ranch. From CR 175 at gate, go 0.2 mile across small branch culvert, then right into pasture, across pasture to visible site with white board fence. Visible from main driveway. Formal marker of names of those buried at site. Reportedly Trant family made fenced area and moved some markers inside the fence. Other families declined to have marker moved. Cattle pasture area, restored ranch house. Formal markers and some fieldstones. Approx. 0.19 acre. GPS 30.38.27.68788N –96.07.18.79361W Quad 3096-414Moderate risk, rearrangement of area in preservation work, but fenced central area, maintained. 3096-414 Local hist. notes.
To address the problem of cemetery destruction and to record as many cemeteries as possible, the
Texas Historical Commission offers the Historic Texas Cemetery designation.
The Historic
Texas Cemetery designation was developed in 1998 to help protect historic cemeteries by
recording cemetery boundaries in county deed records to alert present and future owners of land adjacent
to the cemetery of its existence. Every county in Texas has at least one cemetery designated as a Historic
Texas Cemetery through this program. The HTC designation is the first step toward preservation of a historic cemetery.
A cemetery is eligible for designation if it is at least 50 years old and is deemed worthy of recognition
for its historical associations. The very nature of a cemetery being a landmark of a family’s or community’s
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