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Taken 9-Dec-17
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Category:Travel and Places
Subcategory:North America
Subcategory Detail:United States of America
Keywords:Coryell County Historical Marker, Jesse Graham
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Dimensions4288 x 2848
Original file size6.38 MB
Image typeJPEG
Color spacesRGB
Date taken9-Dec-17 16:49
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Camera makeNIKON CORPORATION
Camera modelNIKON D90
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ISO speedISO 200
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Jesse Graham

Jesse Graham

Gatesvillebr/ Coryell County, Texasbr/ 31 26.240' N 97 43.955' W Directions: Start at the intersection of Osage Road and 22nd Street. The Restland Cemetery is on the north side of the intersection. The marker is on the right (east) side of the cemetery near the fence.br/ br/ Text: (1804-1887) Noted Coryell County pioneer and pastor Jesse Graham was born in North Carolina. He moved with family to Tennessee and then to Alabama, where he married Martha Jane Fanning and became a Primitive Baptist minister. By 1850, the Grahams, who would have twelve children, were in Texas. In 1855, they moved to Coryell County, settling along Brown's Creek. The next year, Graham organized Sugarloaf Baptist Church, which he pastured. He also helped establish Rainey's Creek Baptist Church. Elder Jesse Graham served as a circuit riding preacher to a large portion of central Texas. After his death, he was buried in Graham Cemetery before being reinterred in Restland Cemetery