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Oakland Cemetery (Dallas, Texas)

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The Oakland Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Dallas, Texas, United States. Opened in 1892, it originally stood on 180 acres in rural Dallas County 1.5 miles southeast of the county courthouse.  Economic problems, court judgements, land sales and acquisitions altered the size of the cemetery so that by 1969 only 48 acres remained. Around 30,000 people have selected Oakland Cemetery as the burial location for themselves and/or their family members. Burials include many prominent politicians, educators,  physicians, ministers, business leaders, military service members, ancestors of famous individuals and ordinary citizens. The cemetery has a number of interesting memorials, sculptures and vaults.  Mount Auburn pauper cemetery, owned by the City of Dallas, Rest Haven Cemetery,  Dallas county pauper cemetery, and  Opportunity Park, a city of Dallas public park border Oakland Cemetery. Confederate Cemetery, care for by the city of Dallas Parks Department, is nearby.

History

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The land that became Oakland  Cemetery is located in the Lagow League.  In 1841 Thomas Lagow, who arrived in Texas in November 1835, received a league and labor (4,605.50 acres) from the  Republic of Texas, as First Class Headright for emigrating to Texas before March 2, 1936. At his death in 1844, 1,000 acres from the Lagow League was deeded to his father-in-law, Armstead Bennett. In 1854, Bennett’s son-in-law and daughter, Daniel and Judith (Bennett) Parker sold 680 acres to Nathaniel C. Floyd. Floyd divided the land into 19 blocks which he distributed to his wife and three daughters in his will.

In 1888 Oliver Perry Bowser and William Henry Lemmon, real estate brokers, purchased 232.52 acres from N. C. Floyd’s daughters.[i] Rules and Regulations of the Oakland Cemetery Company credits O. S. Riggens with purchasing 30 acres from Bowser  and Lemmon with the idea of establishing a cemetery outside the city limits. On 6 June 1891, the Texas Secretary of State  approved the incorporation Oakland Cemetery Company.[ii] By 1892 William H. Lewis, William N. Coe, Z. E. Coombes, W. B. Ganos and Joe Weil acquired 180 acres for the cemetery.

Oakland Cemetery Company directors were J. C. O’Connor, J. S. Armstrong, B. Blankenship, T.  J. Oliver, James Moroney, W. H. Lewis, W. N. Coe, and J. P. Murphy. On 24 September 1892, they elected J. P. Murphy, President; T. J. Oliver, Vice President; C. B. Gillespie, Secretary/Treasurer. The company hired J. B. Buchanan as superintendent and landscape gardener. [i]

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[i] Rules and Regulations of the Oakland Cemetery Company, page 1 (unnumbered).

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[i] Dallas County Deed Book 91, Page 11 – 13.

[ii]  Incorporation information.

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[i] https://s3.glo.texas.gov/ncu/SCANDOCS/archives_webfiles/arcmaps/webfiles/landgrants/PDFs/3/2/0/320577.pdf.

[ii] Dallas  Co., Texas Deed Book D:524, Daniel Parker and utx, N. C Floyd, 26 Oct 1854. Dallas County Deed Book N, Page 321.

Murphy & Bolanz. "Thomas Lagow League," Dallas Public Library. https://www.dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/murphyandbolanz/misc/lagowleague.php

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Notable burials

Mayors, state and national politicians

• Henry Schley Ervay, Mayor - 870-1872
• Winship Capers Connor, Mayor - 1887-1894
• Franklin Pierce Holland, Mayor - 1895-1897 
• William Meredith Holland, Mayor - 1911 – 1915, Judge
• Louis Blaylock, Mayor 1923-1927 
• Edwin Le Roy Antony – U. S. House of Representatives, 1892-1893
• James Andrew Beall, Texas House  of Representatives,  1892-1895; Texas Senate, 1895-1899; U. S. House  of Representatives, 1803-1915

Educators and others for whom Dallas schools are named

• Florence Edna Rowe, Teacher
• James Albert Brooks – Superintendent, 1911-1914
• Lida Hooe – Teacher, Art Supervisor
• Nancy Dickerson Moseley – Teacher
• Edwin John Kiest – Owner and Publisher, Dallas Times Herald and KRLD Radio

Artists, athletes, business and civil leaders

• Allie Victoria Tennant, artist - sculptor of Indian archer at Hall of State, Fair Park
• Harry Kinzy – baseball player [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kinzy]
• Oscar Dugey – baseball player  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Dugey]
• Charles Harrington  - pitcher, hit and killed by baseball
• Antonio Louis Pires –
• Minyard Family – Minyard Food Stores
• John Franklin Strickland – President, Texas Power & Light; builder of Interurban line
• Daniel F Sullivan – Texas Power & Light
• George Clapp Greer – President, Magnolia Oil Company

Military

• Frank A. Beaumont – Texas  Ranger
• Henry Coleman – Texas Ranger
• Richard Montgomery Gano, Confederate General https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Montgomery_Gano
• James Bruton Gambrell, Confederate veteran, President of Southern Baptist Convention 1917-1920 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bruton_Gambrell]

Ministers and Medicine

• William M. Anderson–Minister, First Presbyterian Church
• Rev. George W. Rogers–early preacher at First Baptist Church (confirm??)
• Henry Arthur Moseley, M.D. – one of the founders of Baylor Hospital
• Rev. James W. Hill – Minister, First Methodist Church
• Rev. Alexander Charles Garrett, DD, LLD – Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Charles_Garrett]

Photo gallery

• Tombstones at Oakland
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