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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas. With its first burial in 1907, Mount Olivet is the first perpetual care cemetery in the South . Its 130-acre site is located northeast of downtown Fort Worth at the intersection of North Sylvania Avenue and 28th Street adjacent to the Oakhurst Historic District .
Her husband was the associate counsel of the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933 and, during World War II, served as Chairman of the Davidson County Rationing Board. [12] She died in 1973 [7] and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856. [1] It was modelled after the Mount Auburn Cemetery . [ 1 ] In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office.
Union Pacific funeral trains made almost daily trips from Denver to Mt. Olivet. The trains were met by teams of ponies or horses, hitched to funeral biers, to travel up the long drive into the cemetery proper. It took almost an entire day for a funeral cortege to travel by train to Mt. Olivet and back to Denver.
On October 4, 1852, a group of Maryland citizens, including then-lawyer Charles Edward Trail, founded the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company. [2]: 226–228 The company purchased 32 acres of land, which was designed by James Belden to incorporate walkways and driveways throughout the grounds.
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His funeral was held at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Belle Meade, and he was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. [9] His obituary in The Palm Beach Daily News called him "a legend in American business."
He died in Houston, Texas on 8 August 2007, aged 86, and buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery. [2] His brother, Daniel Lam See-chai, was a Canadian entrepreneur and the first Chinese Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.