Routh Cemetery

Brothers Jacob, George Washington, Joseph, and Thomas Jefferson Routh, and their sister Elizabeth Routh Thomas, were cousins of the Vance family, which held the original land grant that encompassed this site.  Jacob Routh (1818-1879),a Baptist minister, acquired the 640-acre J.U. Vance survey in 1851, and brought his mother and other relatives from Tennessee to Texas,  The Routh family were instrumental in the establishment of the community surrounding their land.  Routh family members helped to organize a school, church, and store in addition to the family cemetery.
Early Collin County settlers Nancy de Lozier Beverly (1806-1851) and 7-year-old William Klepper, along with an unknown child whose parents were camping nearby at the time of its death, were already buried on this site when Jacob ROuth set aside one acre as a family burial ground.  Jacob’s mother, Elizabeth Mashman Routh (1788-1852) died soon after her arrival in Texas and was the first family member to be interfered here.

Jacob, his wife Lodemia Ann Campbell, and two unmarried daughters, Rosa and Clara Routh, are buried several hundred yards north of the cemetery in a private plot.  Of the approximate 200 graves here, fewer than 100 are marked.  The last burial to occur here was that of Serepta Ellen Campbell Miller, who was born in 1836 and died in 1922. The Routh cemetery continues to serve as a record of the pioneers of north Texas.