Eastland County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Scarborough, Christopher Columbus ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jamie Forgey bcandjdforgey@yahoo.com July 11, 2006, 4:59 pm Cemetery: Merriman Cemetery, 1 Mile South Of I-20, Ranger, Eastland Co., Texas Name: Christopher Columbus Scarborough Date Of Photograph: July 1, 2006 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/eastland/photos/tombstones/merriman/scarboro901nph.jpg Image file size: 129.5 Kb This photo is of the tombstone of Christopher Columbus Scarborough and Rebecca J. Dubose, his first wife of which all six of his children were born. C. C. Scarborough was born March 27, 1844,(in Bienville Parish, Louisiana to Silas and Rachel Russell Scarborough) and died January 25, 1908,(in Ranger, Eastland Co., Texas). Rebecca J. (Dubose) Scarborough was born in November of 1849, and died May 7, 1882, (in Ranger, Eastland Co., Texas). Inscription reads: "Our darling ones has gone before to greet us on the golden shore." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/eastland/photos/tombstones/merriman/scarboro901nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb