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Race Cemetery
Collin County,
Texas

This is small family cemetery dating back to the late 1800's. The cemetery was not known about until a few years ago when it was found during road construction. The cemetery was very overgrown at the time. Since its discovery, the cemetery has been cleaned up and a wrought-iron fence was build around it. It is now well maintained. Many of the headstones have been knocked down.

The cemetery is part of Breckenridge Park within the Richardson City Limits. It is located on west side E. Brand Road (at one of the entrances of Breckenridge Park) about 1/2 mile north of E Campbell Road / E Brand Road intersection in Richardson, Collin County, Texas, USA.

The last burial, according to tombstones, occurred in 1905 (J. M. Richards). There are believed to be many unmarked graves in the cemetery.

Latitude: 32.987233 Longitude: -96.623498

RACE (aka CATLETT) CEMETERY
RICHARDSON, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS
Located at Brand Road and Breckinridge Park

According to COLLIN COUNTY CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS I, "this cemetery was not known about until a few years back when a road was being cut through a plum thicket and the graves were discovered. The road was cut around the cemetery, and Mr. Race, who purchased the property, put a wrought-iron fence around it. He estimates around 25 unmarked graves within the fence. Mr. Race has set-aside one acre to be used as a grave yard and plans to bury his family there. Mr. Race's granddaughter, Jennifer Ann Race, was buried in 1967, no burials in the last sixty years.”

This is a ¼ acre deeded cemetery listed on Vol. 11414, p 621, dated October 30, 1970. It is surrounded by a chain-link fence. Most of the stones have been knocked over. It is very overgrown. There are no recent burials. I do not know where the Catlett name came from. There are no markers for Race or Catlett. Brand Road is about ¾ mile west of Murphy Road, FM 2551.

Dr. Race moved to New Mexico and moved his granddaughter's grave there. The family is being buried there.
Breckinridge Park was once the Richardson City Dump. This may have been the original Murphy graveyard, which was near the dump.

In 1993 the citizens of Richardson voted to straighten the bend in Brand Road. When the bend was straightened out, the cemetery was inside Breckinridge Park.

This cemetery is listed in LIVING IN MURPHY, TEXAS, as a Murphy cemetery, even though it is actually in the city of Richardson. COLLIN COUNTY CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS I has a mistake on map #2 concerning this cemetery and the West Shady Grove Cemetery. The authors pasted a correction in their later books.

Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough
Reference: http://www.collincountyhistory.com/racecatlett.html

Contributed on 10/6/14 by charlies.genealogy
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Submitted: 10/6/14 • Approved: 7/21/23 • Last Updated: 7/24/23 • R26630-G0-S3

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