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The information in this cemetery listing is as published in the three volume,
"
Coleman County Cemetery Inscriptions", completed in 1988 by Judia and Ralph Terry and Vena Bob Gates. 
I had updated some of the information, but now depend on others by using the FindAGrave.com website. 
Each cemetery listed below has a link to its FindAGrave listing.


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LOREANEY JAMES GRAVE, COLEMAN COUNTY, TEXAS

       This grave is on the west side of Elm Creek, southwest of the bridge, just off FM 2134 between Voss and Leaday.  It is just across the creek from the rock corrals of Flat Top Ranch of Rich Coffey.  The grave is above the creek in the pasture, with no fence, but the marker has withstood the wear of time.

       This single grave is that of Loreaney James, born in Saline County, Arkansas July 6, 1830 and married George James ca 1850.  Mrs. Fogg Coffey is said to have told Mrs. Lucy Rodden of Valera about the stone and the woman whose family did not own any land, but had a horse herd and were camping on Elm Creek near Flat Top, in a cabin someone had built there.  Late one afternoon she went down toward the creek to call her milk cows, leaving her little children in the house.  A band of Indians came riding between her and the cabin, and when she broke and ran they easily caught and lanced her to death.  She was buried there and the family moved on.  Her stone reads:


"In memorial of Loreaney JAMES - The wife of George James - who was bornd in Selene Co, Arkansas in the year of our Lord 1830 and departed this life Feb the 20, 1875"



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