"CHATT, TEXAS. Chatt is off Interstate Highway 35 some four miles
south of Hillsboro in central Hill County. It apparently
was established about 1884, when it was named Jessie for
Jessie McClure, a pioneer settler who built and operated
a general merchandise store there. A two-story school
was built on land donated by W. A. Ficklin in 1896. By
the 1905-06 academic year the school had sixty-eight
students and two teachers. A post office operated in the
community from 1896 to 1910. The town apparently adopted
the new name Chatt sometime after the tracks of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad arrived, because the
line already passed through another Texas town called
Jessie. Chatt was identified on the 1984 county highway
map, but only a cemetery was shown at the site."
from
The Handbook of Texas Online
Chatt-Jessie
Cemetery is the final resting place of my great-great
grandparents, Isaac and Sarah Turner, and several of
their children. It is located off HCR 3111, south of
Hillsboro in rural Hill County, Texas. Although
Interstate 35 is within view, the cemetery is somehow a
very quite and peaceful spot, with shade trees and corn
fields nearby. Most of the burials are from the late
1800's and early 1900's.
Enter the Cemetery
Cemeteries of
Hill County, Texas
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