[Apologies if this appears as a duplicate. Twelve hours after I sent it
originally, it still hasn't appeared on the List, so I'm resending. CEB]
Yes, the town of Calvert, Texas was named for Robert Calvert, the son of
William Calvert and Lucy (Rogers) Calvert. He was a planter, first in
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, then in Saline County, Arkansas, then moved to
Robertson County, Texas about 1850.
He was a significant booster of the railroad and assigned his slaves to
build part of the roadbed for the railroad that went through his area
(documented in the Robertson County deed records). The war interfered with
the completion of the railroad, however, and Robert Calvert died of yellow
fever a couple of years after the war. When the railroad was completed in
the early 1870s, the town that sprang up as a railroad station in Robertson
County was named for the deceased Robert Calvert.
For most of his tenure in Robertson County, the town nearest him was named
"Sterling" and that's where RC and others of his family were buried, but
the town of Sterling disappeared when the railroad came through a few miles
away, bypassing the town of Sterling. Now you have to go a pretty good ways
down a deserted road outside of Calvert to find the historical marker about
Robert Calvert in what's left of the old cemetery after years of cows using
it for pasturage. His tombstone and that of his wife is still intact.
Some time back I stumbled across a website for Calvert, Texas, which has a
brief biog of RC and a picture of the historical marker at his burial
place, but I'm using my notebook computer without my main bookmarks, so I
can't tell you the address. Perhaps it was through the Handbook of Texas
Online:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Genealogical information about Robert Calvert and associated families can
be found at my website:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/i/l/Carolyn-E-Billingsley/
Any information about this family will be welcomed. Thanks, Carolyn
At 11:26 PM 6/25/99 EDT, you wrote:
Does anyone know who Calvert,Texas is named after?
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Laura Calvert Bates