Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

PoliticalGraveyard.com

Collin County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Collin County

Index to Locations

  • AllenRidgeview Memorial Park
  • LavonAbston Cemetery
  • McKinneyPecan Grove Cemetery
  • MelissaMelissa Cemetery

    RidgeviewMemorial Park
    Allen, Collin County, Texas
    Connie Charles Armstong (1925-2007) — also known asConnie Armstong — of Plano,CollinCounty, Tex.Born in Longview,GreggCounty, Tex.,June 26,1925.Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas,1972;candidate forTexasstate house of representatives, 1976;chair ofCollin County Republican Party, 1979-83.Baptist.Member,Freemasons.DiedAugust11, 2007 (age82 years, 46days).Interment at Ridgeview Memorial Park.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof Connie Clifton Armstong and Nora (Cornelius) Armstong; married1950 toHarriet Jane Queener.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

    • AbstonCemetery
    Lavon, Collin County, Texas
    Roland Weldon Boyd (1908-1990) — also known asRoland Boyd — of McKinney,CollinCounty, Tex.Born in Lavon,CollinCounty, Tex.,September10, 1908.Democrat.Lawyer;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1956(alternate),1960.Baptist.DiedDecember2, 1990 (age82 years, 83days).Interment at Abston Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives:Married,September6, 1935, toNannetteLola Gay.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial
     Nannette Boyd (1915-2000) — also known asNannette Lola Gay;Mrs. RolandBoyd —of McKinney,CollinCounty, Tex.Born in Nevada,CollinCounty, Tex.,May 17,1915.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1964.Female.Baptist.DiedMarch 2,2000 (age84 years, 290days).Interment at Abston Cemetery.
     Relatives:Daughter of Olive (Brundidge) Gay and John Maston Gay; married,September6, 1935, toRolandWeldon Boyd.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

    Pecan GroveCemetery
    McKinney, Collin County, Texas
    James Webb Throckmorton (1825-1894) — also known asJames W. Throckmorton;"OldLeathercoat" —of Texas. Born in Sparta,WhiteCounty, Tenn.,February1, 1825.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;lawyer; lawpartner ofSamuelA. Roberts andThomasJ. Brown; member of Texas state legislature, 1851;delegateto Texas secession convention, 1861; general in the ConfederateArmy during the Civil War;delegateto Texas state constitutional convention, 1866;Governor ofTexas, 1866-67;U.S.Representative from Texas, 1875-79, 1883-87 (3rd District1875-79, 5th District 1883-87); delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Texas,1880,1888,1892.Slaveowner. DiedApril21, 1894 (age69 years, 79days).Interment at Pecan Grove Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography
     Books about James W. Throckmorton:Kenneth Wayne Howell,TexasConfederate, Reconstruction Governor: James WebbThrockmorton
     Robert D. Allison (1810-1900) — of Gordonsville,SmithCounty, Tenn.; McKinney,CollinCounty, Tex.Born inOrangeCounty, N.C.,September25, 1810.Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member ofTennesseestate house of representatives, 1849-51; colonel in theConfederate Army during the Civil War.Died in McKinney,CollinCounty, Tex.,December5, 1900 (age90 years, 71days).Interment at Pecan Grove Cemetery.
    MelissaCemetery
    Melissa, Collin County, Texas
    See alsoFindagravepage for this location.Thornton Edgar Shirley (1849-1938) — also known asThornton E. Shirley — of Melissa,CollinCounty, Tex.Born in Kentucky,July 16,1849.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1880;alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Texas,1896.Died in Phoenix,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.,June 22,1938 (age88 years, 341days).Interment at Melissa Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof Lewis Shirley and Paulina (Kellar) Shirley; married,February12, 1885, to Virginia Harriet Bean.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

    "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of apolitical graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260politicians, living and dead.
     
     The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President,members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders inall fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; andthe chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifyingmunicipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, forany of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellatejudges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of majorfederal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmastersof qualifying communities; (5) state and national political partyofficials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and otherparticipants in national party nominating conventions;(6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nationsbefore 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify",for Political Graveyard purposes, if theyhave at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive ofpredecessor, successor, and merged entities. 
     The listings areincomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project. 
     Information on this page — and on all other pages of thissite — is believed to be accurate, but isnotguaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sourcesbefore relying on any information here. 
     The official URL for this page is:https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CO-buried.html. 
     Links to this or any other Political Graveyard pageare welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimeschange as the site develops. 
     If you are searching for a specific named individual, try thealphabetical index of politicians. 
    Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; seeFeistv. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this siteare 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe toconstitutefair use under applicable copyright law. Wherepossible, each image is linked to its online source. However,requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from thissite are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection andarrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum.(4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under aCreative CommonsLicense.
    What is a "political graveyard"? SeePoliticalDictionary;UrbanDictionary.
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained byLawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address isThe Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted byHDLmi.com. —The Political Graveyard opened onJuly 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onFebruary 17, 2025.
    [8]ページ先頭
    ©2009-2026 Movatter.jp