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Ellsworth Cemetery 
Ellsworth Community Cemetery 
by Elaine Nall Bay
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     This cemetery has been recorded in books mistakenly as the 'Hollingsworth cemetery'.
But it was actually called the Ellsworth or Ellsworth Schoolhouse Cemetery. There was a church and a school were on the property.
    The Hollingsworth family did not arrive there till after it was long in use. Originally it had many wooden markers.  Guesses of up to 100 graves. Most were marked with wooden markers.
It is located near the intersection of Hwy 91 and 691, about one block west on the north side of the road. Between Sherman and Denison on the Grayson co. Airport Rd. (691) Located on the grounds of a commercial nursery. 

Census of the Cemetery
Douglass, Katie  dau. of W.C.& L.A. Douglass
   20 Dec.1848- 4 Oct.1863
(This stone is broken and on the ground almost unreadable, She was the daughter of William C. Douglass b. in Tn in 1811 d. in Clay County Texas in 1884 and Lucy Anna Seawell Douglass . All of the family moved to Clay County, Texas after Katie died.)

The next two are marked
Hollingsworth, W.V. (William Vincin Hollingsworth) 26 Sept.1837-7 Feb.1905
Hollingsworth, E.J. (Ellen Jane Witten) 18 Aug.1843- 24 Mar.1926 -  his wife.
This couple lived in Farmington and then moved around 1900 to the Ellsworth Community

One of Mrs. Hollingsworths brothers' is buried next to her in an unmarked grave.

Reardon, Mary        12 Oct 1883 - 6 Aug 1911.   Grayson County Death Cert. no. 161, She was White, Married, Born in California to F. Simon who was born in Germany and Marie Nial also born in Germany and she died of consumption. Unmarked Grave



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