Fannin County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Rowland, Zachery Taylor A. ************************************************ 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: Leisa Urbantke urbantkel@sbcglobal.net August 26, 2007, 11:26 am Cemetery: Center Point Cemetery Name: Zachery Taylor A. Rowland Date Of Photograph: 2006 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/fannin/photos/tombstones/centerpoint/rowland4754gph.jpg Image file size: 115.8 Kb The inscription states: T. A. Rowland Born Dec 24, 1848 Died Nov 10, 1928 The stone is white marble, it is to the right along a hedgerow at the front of the cemetery. He is buried beside his wife Eliza and Mother Elizabeth. Additional Comments: His full name is Zachery Taylor A. Rowland. He went by the name of Taylor Rowland. Taylor was born in Lincoln Co, TN to Hiram and Elizabeth Barbary Painter Roland. I have found Taylor on every census, however the Rowland name is spelled in a variety of ways. Roland, Rolin, Rollen, and Rowland are just a few of the variations. Taylor married twice, first to Catherine A. Muse on 29 May 1871 in Bedford Co, TN. Their children were: Forest L. Rowland and Lewella "Ella" Rowland (married James J. Kilburn), both of whom are buried here. Second he married Eliza Emline Muse on 21 Feb 1878 in Giles Co, TN. Taylor, Eliza, Forest, Ella, and Ollie (Eliza's son from 1st marriage) along with Taylor's mother Elizabeth come to Texas in a covered wagon in 1881. All of Taylor and Eliza's children are born in Texas : +Minnie Ada Rowland (married +Joe C. Branch), James Walter Rowland (married Tennie Lee), Vallie V. Rowland (married William Frank Vaughn), and *Lena Rowland ( married *Olen D. Whitt) *buried at Ladonia Cemetery, Ladonia, Fannin Co, TX +buried at Rosemound Cemetery in Commerce, Hunt Co, TX All the other children mentioned are buried here at Center Point. According to Minnie Ada Rowland Branch: "When I was three years old, my father bought a home north of where Center Point Cemetery is now. I grew up there. Daddy, T. A. Rowland, gave land to build a church. Later a friend had what we called lingering Consumption. She begged them not to bury her at Rehabeth. Then country folks didn't bury their dead in town, but they buried their family in the country where they lived. They asked if she could be buried in the corner of the pasture near the church, and my father said, "Yes." After the funeral my daddy built a rail pen around the grave, so the cows wouldn't step on it. Later other folks wanted to be buried there. Finally, my father told the community if they would help build a fence, he would give them a cemetery there. I have a large family buried there-----mother, father, sisters, brothers, grandmother, nieces, nephews, and one precious child who passed away at the age of 15." At least two of Taylor's brothers came to Texas from Tennessee, Samuel Franklin Rolin and George Wesley Rolen. George is buried at the Bourland Cemetery, Fannin Co, TX in a grave marked only by a "hipped shaped piece of wood." Samuel settled in Grayson Co, TX and is buried in Bethany Cemetery, Sherman, Grayson Co, TX. Both George and Taylor were witnesses on the Confederate Widow's Pension for Samuel's widow, Catherine who filed for a pension in Delta Co, TX. Taylor was a farmer. According to Minnie Ada Rowland Branch, " A little girl was born to them on Aug 13, seventy-five years ago, and that little girl was me, Minnie Rowland, but two other girls and a boy were added to the family which made mother, daddy, grandmother, four girls and three boys. They also had many hired hands. My father was what you would call a big farmer. He raised our meat, milked cows, had chickens, raised both kinds of potatoes, and he had two big orchards. We had our living at home. If I had known then that we would ever come to buying one pound of meat at the time, I would have thought that we were getting in pretty bad shape. When I first remembered Ladonia, it had no paved streets, nor cars, just wagons, and if they were able, a few had buggies. There were eight doctors in town. I remember one time that we had saloons. Wonder what it would be like now if we had open saloons, since so many people have cars." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/fannin/photos/tombstones/centerpoint/rowland4754gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb