The records shown here were originally published in the a 3 volume set, Coleman County Cemeteries Inscriptions, and were copied and compiled by Vena Bob Gates, Judia Terry and Ralph Terry, and were published in 1988 by Terry Studio, P. O. Box 958, Coleman, Texas 76834, and was copyrighted 1988 by Ralph Terry.  All rights are reserved, including any reproduction for profit.  Copies of the published works, Coleman County Cemeteries Inscriptions (published in 1988) can be purchased from Ralph Terry at the above address.

      This single grave lies in a clump of trees about one mile south of the Trickham community.  Early Coleman County history relates that Lot Ellington contracted smallpox on a horse selling trip to Kansas.  He was making his home in Coleman County with the Fiveash family at the time and brought the disease back.  Ellington died, following by Tom Moss (who also lived with the Fiveash family) and Enoch and Lucinda Fiveash.  We are told by the late Leona Bruce, "As the members of the Fiveash family died, they were buried on their own land.  Lot was laid away on one side of the field, and Tom, Lucinda and Enoch some distance away, in a corner of the land."  However, the grave of Lot Ellington is located about one and one-half miles northeast of the Fiveash Cemetery.  His unkept grave marker reads:

ELLINGTON, A. L. - Nov 9, 1854 - died of smallpox Feb 29, 1876

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