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Jewish Cemetery
photo submitted by Steve Smith srsmith1@earthlink.net
The Jewish Cemetery in Calvert, Robertson County, Texas is a small cemetery located across from the Calvert school football field at the intersection of Mitchell Street and E. Hannah Street (also known as FM 1644). It is enclosed by a black wrought-iron fence with gates along E. Hannah/FM 1644 and a chain-link fence along Mitchell Street. The Jewish Cemetery ends at the end of the chain-length fence. There are four graves just past the end of this fence and they constitute the Nixon Cemetery. Contact Alan Wiese 979-777-7077 according to City of Calvert offices.
| Last | First/Maiden | DOB | DOD | Notes |
| Aaron | Abie | 24-Jun-1882 | 26-Oct7-1887 |  photo by Ricky Harber rikee@gmail.com |
| Aaron | Lena Lavine | 15-Jul-1851 Poland | 4-Jan-1943 | Death Certificate |
| Aaron | Ralph | 11-Dec-1880 | 31-Dec-1881 | |
| Abrams | Arthur | Sep-1889 | 1901 |
 photo and info by Ricky Harber rikee@gmail.com
Family links: Parents: |
| Abrams | Bertha | 19-Aug-1853 | 19-Jul-1881 |  photo and info by Ricky Harber rikee@gmail.com |
| Abrams | Bettie Mayer | 25-Dec-1862 Germany | 1933 | 
 photo and info by Ricky Harber rikee@gmail.com |
| Einstein | Isaac | - | 7-Nov-1873 |
 photo submitted by Steve Smith srsmith1@earthlink.net |
| Lazard | Corine | - | 17-Oct-1873 |
 photo submitted by Steve Smith srsmith1@earthlink.net |
| Regensburger | William | - | 15-Oct-1873 |
 photo submitted by Steve Smith srsmith1@earthlink.net |
The Yellow Fever Epidemic
On September 3, 1873, W.F. Hughes, a young man from yellow fever-stricken Shreveport, LA, stopped in Calvert.
On September 5th he became ill and died a couple of days later. Then other people started getting sick. This yellow fever epidemic spread to the northeast in the direction of the prevailing wind.
Of Calvert's 1,500 white residents at the time, all but about 600 had the fever and a quarter of these died.
For several months, the entire town was quarantined. Trains were not allowed to stop when passing through and the windows of all coaches were tightly closed until all cars had passed beyond the city limits. Trains would stop
outside of town to let passengers off and unload caskets.
Over 100 yellow fever deaths are identified on pages 85 and 86 of Richard Denny Parker's Historical Recollections Of Robertson County book.
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