Location: At junction of SH 70 and County Road 203, north side of Roby.
History: Settlers began arriving in
this area in the late 19th Century. The oldest grave marker in
the Roby Cemetery, that of Mable W. Deming, bears the date 1884,
one year prior to the organization of Fisher County and the establishment
of the town of Roby. Brothers D. C. and M. L. Roby purchased over
4,000 acres of land in 1885. They had a townsite platted; donated
sites for schools, churches, and a park; and designated the land
containing Mable Deming's grave as a public cemetery. The original
cemetery plot consisted of seven acres, and the brothers stipulated
that no fee was to be levied for grave sites in that section.
The Roby Cemetery served as the principal burial ground for citizens
of Fisher County. In the late 1950s the county deeded the cemetery
lands to the city of Roby. In 1975 the Roby Cemetery Association
was chartered and accepted the deed to the cemetery property from
the city. Later land acquisitions increased the graveyard's size
to twenty-one acres. Those interred in the Roby Cemetery include
pioneer settlers of Fisher County, veterans of the Civil War,
and one former slave, "Aunt" Abbie Alborn, who came
to this area from Tennessee in 1886. The graveyard serves as a
reminder of the area's early history. (1988)