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Weeks Settlement, Texas
Historical Marker: This land was part of an 1838 grant to James Weeks (d.1863) in Jasper County, becoming part of Newton County in 1846. Weeks built a home about one-half mile south of this
site, and married Catherine Hardy (b.1831) in 1847. They are presumed buried in the nearby Hardy Cemetery, about one-half mile east. In 1887 Weeks' son James Robert (1850-1936) and his
wife, Melvina Robinson (1840-1919) Weeks, granted one acre at this site to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A crude building was erected to serve as a church and school for area
settlers. When a native of the area, Jim Eudaley (1866-1893), was killed in a logging accident near Kirbyville (26 mi.S), J. R. Weeks, by then a Methodist minister, suggested a burial
behind Weeks' Chapel. The cemetery subsequently served surrounding communities, including Brookeland (16 mi.NW), Farrsville (5 mi. SE), Harrisburg (2 mi. SW), and Weeks (2 mi. N), and now
contains some 300 burials. In 1904 a new church and school building was erected, and the congregation changed its denomination by organizing the Missionary Baptist Church. The school later
consolidated with Farrsville, but the church and cemetery remain the focus of an annual homecoming. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
Offsite listing of graves on Find A Grave
Weeks Chapel Cemetery at Find A Grave
Burials from death certificates:
Cole, John Clark 22 Jul 1861 05 Feb 1938 Son of J. C. Cole and Mary Legston
Harris, Herbert 25 Feb 1918 13 Oct 1929 Son of M. P. Harris and Della Davenport
Hilliard, Arthur H 11 Jul 1901 06 Dec 1957 Son of J M Hilliard and Mell Gilchriest
Hilliard, Mell 29 Oct 1864 29 Oct 1959 Dau of Ralph Gilchrist and Priscilla Dubose
Hopson, William Felix 27 Feb 1898 07 Sep 1962 Son of Jim Hopson and Lizzie Rawls
Robinson, Annie Allen 12 May 1861 30 Sep 1936 Dau of Nathanial Allen and Rachel Truett
Robinson, John William 18 Nov 1928 18 Feb 1948 Son of J W Robinson and Mattie Weeks
Robinson, John William 26 Jul 1880 30 Dec 1955 Son of Wesley Robinson and Annie Allen
Robinson, Leona 21 Mar 1889 25 Jul 1948 Dau of Jim Erwin and Sallie Wiggins
Rogers, Basil Ray 30 Nov 1934 06 Dec 1934 Son of Albert Rogers and Clara Berryman
Rogers, Mary Mahala 10 Jan 1862 16 Sep 1936 Dau of Kenneth Hardy and Mary Galispie
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