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Oakland Cemetery. The city arranged for any individual pauper who died within its boundaries or at the city hospital to be buried. It was not easy to get undertakers to use this rural cemetery. By 1906 former Mayor Barry reminded the city council that land had been purchased for a pauper cemetery. Mayor Curtis P. Smith instructed the city engineers to lay out the cemetery in two sections: one for white paupers and the other for Negroes. Death certificates as early as 1910 and the 1920 revised city code call this cemetery Mount Auburn. The name "city cemetery" continues to appear on death certificate at the same time. Today the City of Dallas calls this cemetery "Opportunity Cemetery," since the land is adjacent to Opportunity Park and is maintained by the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department. It is difficult to know exactly when burials began in this city cemetery/ (aka Mount Auburn) because the state did not required death certificate until 1908. The cemetery was replaced with a new pauper cemetery in northwest Dallas in 1932.
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The county sheriff sold 30 acres each to E. O. Tenison and Guy
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President; and C. B. Gillespie, Secretary/Treasurer. In August 1892, William H. Lewis, Zachariah E. Coombes & William B. Gano, Joseph Weil and William N. Coe sold The Oakland Cemetery Company a total of 180 acres of the N. C. Floyd Estate that they acquired through various transactions with O.P. Bowser, W. H. Lemmon and others.
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struggle, but still contributed to the fabric and growth of the city. Many beautiful monuments and sculptures adorn the cemetery grounds. Some show the signs of pollution and vandalism. Others have sunken into the sandy soil or been have damaged by mowing. Few family members visit long ago ancestors, but some of the recent burials are cared for.
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Morning News article announced that the cemetery was officially closed in August 2019 due to lack of operating funds. Now the Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners Association has new leadership. It meets annually in the spring. Its Board of Directors meets quarterly. The office at Oakland is closed,
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Cemetery Lot Owners sold 9.125 acres on the southeast line to the City of Dallas for Opportunity Park in 1969.The deed stated that "there have been no burials in this portion of the cemetery and that no lots or burial rights were every conveyed out of Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners' Association,
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Sterling Price Confederate Veterans Camp to use a portion of the land from the Dallas County pauper cemetery for a Confederate cemetery. In 1936, the city of Dallas began caring for the Confederate cemetery. The cemetery is at the corner of Electra and Reed streets. In
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Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners Association built an office for the cemetery in the front drive of the cemetery in 1952. Roger L. Tennant, an association director, told the Dallas Morning News that the funds for the building came from voluntary subscription. Other directors were Joseph Agee, Ben Y.
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Oakland Cemetery Company, in an 1899 lot owners meeting, said that "the grounds shall be limited exclusively to the purchasers respectively of lots therein; and that 25 per cent of the sum received in the sale of each and every lot in all time to come shall be, and is hereby set apart and made a
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near Boston. The land that the cemetery company acquired was L-shaped, consisting of Blocks 1, 3 and 4 of the Floyd estate. "The spot was covered with a thick growth of trees." While old oak trees were kept, landscape gardeners added rose bushes and graveled pathways to the land. Groves submitted a
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Dallas county purchased 6 acres from James A. Crawford and his wife adjacent to the city's property in 1901. The county buried paupers who died in Dallas county but outside the city limits. Paupers from the county could be provided housing on the county poor farm. The farm had its own cemetery. In
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The places for the city of Dallas to bury its pauper death were filling up by the early 1900s. The city officials received complaints about the downtown cemetery and the pauper section of Trinity cemetery (now called Greenwood Cemetery). So in 1901 the city council decided to purchase 6 acres from
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J. B. Buchanan was the first Oakland Cemetery superintendent. A. S. Hall was superintendent in 1896. George W. Loudermilk (1870–1948) became cemetery superintendent in 1902 and continued through 1920. While managing his responsibilities at Oakland Cemetery, he continued in the undertaking business
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Burials only occurred in Floyd's Block 1. Oakland Cemetery Company sold various parcels from Block 3 and 4. Later, the company purchased additional land on the northwest side of the cemetery. In 1926, the Oakland Cemetery Company was dissolved and replaced by the Oakland Lot Owners Association. Of
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were deeded to Lagow's father-in-law, Armstead Bennett (1785–1859). Bennett's son-in-law and daughter, Daniel and Judith (Bennett) Parker, sold 680 acres to Nathaniel C. Floyd (1796–1870) in 1854. Floyd divided the land into 19 blocks which his probate distributed to his wife and three daughters.
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A stroll through Oakland cemetery will reveal the names of individuals whose families are in the written history of Dallas: Dealey, Thornton, Hobby, Bolanz, Murphy, O'Connor, Blaylock, Samuell, Grauwyler, Armstrong, Zang, Belo, Jalonick. It is also the burial location of others whose lives were a
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A 1916 arson of the George W. Loudermilk office at Oakland cemetery destroyed many records. Subsequent superintendents and sextons recreated interment cards and made lists of burials from books that escaped the fire. In 1946, the records of Oakland Cemetery was again the target of fire after the
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that they had "purchased from the old cemetery company" all the unplatted acreage and unsold lots for $ 48,750. This included about one hundred and fifty 20x30 lots and 600 single grave lots. Part of the improvements involved connecting Oakland to the city water system and adding three-inch and
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There is a pet section in the Oakland cemetery. A rumor says that a horse and a monkey are buried there. No records support this. The pets buried there do not have interment cards. One dog is buried next to Nellie Wood Kiest in Oakland Section 1. The curious thing is that the dog's interment is
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There are markers for Masons, Shriners, Knights Templar, Order of Eastern Star, Knights of Pythias, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and International Association of Rebecca Assemblies, Woodmen of the World and Sons of Hermann. through the cemetery. There are a few
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and William Henry Lemmon, real estate brokers, purchased over 232 acres from N. C. Floyd's daughters in 1888. O. S. Riggen purchased 30 acres that comprise NW 1/2 of Block 4 of the Floyd estate from Bowser and Lemmon with the idea of establishing a cemetery outside the city limits.
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the land originally acquired from the Nathaniel C. Floyd estate, only Block 1 remained in the cemetery. Oakland Cemetery Company sold the 55.28 acres of the cemetery to Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners Association. A trust fund for maintenance costs was established.
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An Abilene, Texas newspaper reported that 28 tombs at Oakland were vandalized in 1937. The Dallas criminal court judge sentenced an Oakland Cemetery Lot Owner Association officer to five years for each of five cases in 1938 for embezzling cemetery funds.
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The Daughters of 1812 organization honored Lucy Jeanette Power Cary (1842–1924), wife of Joseph Milton Cary, with a marker as a "Real Daughter of 1812" in 1932. Her father fought in the War of 1812. She is the mother of Dr. Edward H. Cary.
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perpetual fund, to be loaned upon the best securities by three trustees, one to be selected by the company and two by the lot-owners: and the interest received there form devoted to the care and keeping of the grounds, graves, etc.."
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In 1924 W. H. Wray was elected cemetery association president and Oakland Cemetery Association applied for and received a new charter. In 1925 Wray resigned and George W. Jalonick became president of the association.
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Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners' Association incorporated on December 1, 1924. Oakland Cemetery Company dissolved December 31, 1925. In January 1926 Oakland Cemetery Lot Owner's Association announced in the
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plan for a total of 120 acres of the 180 acres which then became the official plat of the cemetery which the cemetery association filed with the county.
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four-inch water lines to insure water for the entire cemetery during the summer. "Oakland Cemetery to Be Improved, Owners' Association Announce," –
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Incorporated, to any person, in this section of the cemetery." The land was part of the NE 1/2 of the SE 1/2 part of Block 1 of the Floyd estate.
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Plotting a Course – Historic Cemetery seeks help preserving resting place of some of city's top names. Christine Wicker,
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605:"Cemetery Safes Opened by Yeggs But Found Empty,
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214:Oakland Cemetery in 2014
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1461:." Dallas Morning News,
1057:Charles M. Rosser, M.D.
1032:Confederate States Army
1028:Richard Montgomery Gano
886:– Owner and publisher,
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609:, Jan 12, 1931, p. 9.
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