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The Texas State Cemetery (TSC) is a cemetery located on about 22 acres (8.9 ha) just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and vice-president of the Republic of Texas, it was expanded into a Confederate cemetery during the Civil War.
Acton State Historic Site, located near Acton approximately 6 miles (10 km) east of Granbury in Hood County, Texas (United States), is the grave site of Elizabeth Patton Crockett, second wife of Davy Crockett, who married him in Tennessee in 1815. She died January 31, 1860. The site also contains the graves of her son Robert and Robert's wife ...
Charles Allen Culberson (1855–1925), Texas governor and U.S. Senator; Elisha Adam Euless (1848–1911), founder and namesake of the city of Euless, Texas; Al Hayne (1850–1890), British civil engineer who perished rescuing women & children from the Texas Spring Palace fire; Gladys McClure (1914–1933), actress and sister of Adrienne Ames
1. Gen. George Custer. West Point, New York The Civil War general most famous for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn can be found in the West Point Cemetery alongside many other ...
Greenwood Cemetery is privately owned non-denominational cemetery located at 3020 Oak Grove Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. [1] Founded in 1875 as the Trinity Cemetery, the first burial was a Mrs. Susan Bradford that March. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city of Dallas. [1]
Texas Ranger who recaptured Cynthia Ann Parker. Confederate Brigadier General. Interred at Lot 5, block 1. Edgar E. Witt (1876–1965), Lieutenant Governor of Texas 1931-1935, Chair American-Mexican Claims Commission, Chief Commissioner Indian Claims Commission. James E. Yantis (1856–1918), Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
The Dallas Morning News reported that a Dallas citizen saw and spoke to Clyde Barrow who was parked in Oakland Cemetery with Raymond Hamilton and two women in the early evening of April 6, 1934. [25] Granite tombstone stolen from Oakland in 1934 [26] An Abilene, Texas newspaper reported that 28 tombs at Oakland were vandalized in 1937. [27]
The design was based on principles for garden cemeteries, breaking the pattern of the typical gridiron layouts of most Houston cemeteries. Many influential people lay to rest at Glenwood, making it the "River Oaks of the dead." As of 2018, Glenwood includes the annexed property of the adjacent Washington Cemetery, creating a total area of 84 ...