Rome Cemetery

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Marker No: 16622

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker

Geographic: 32.11377, -95.88941

Location: CR 1109, south of FM 753, 7 miles southwest of Athens

Marker Text: Settlers established the Corinth community (also known as RomeZ) in the late 1800s. A one-room schoolhouse was the first meeting place for the Corinth Primitive Baptist Church. Organized in 1881. Foot washings were a tradition at the church, utilizing water from a nearby spring on Boyd family land. A.L. Boys, C.R. Boyd and his wife Pearl donated two acres for Rome Cemetery in 1921. Neva "Nannie" (Chipley) Boyd (1877-1921) died in an accident on the way to church and was the first burial here. When the Rome School consolidated with Cross Roads Independent School District in 1935, the old schoolhouse was torn down and a new chapel was built today., this burial ground remains a chronicle of the pioneer (Corinth) Rome community. (2002)