Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas)

Greenwood Cemetery is privately owned non-denominational cemetery located at 3020 Oak Grove Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. 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. It is part of a cemetery tour, and sits next to the Emanu-El Cemetery, the Calvary Cemetery, and the Freedman's Cemetery Memorial.

History

At the time of its founding, the cemetery was out of town and surrounded by farmland. By 1896, the cemetery had fallen into disrepair with one local noting: "The fence is down in twenty places, cattle roam all over the graves and wagons use the main street as a common thoroughfare." This prompted the formation of the Greenwood Cemetery Association, which took over the maintenance and operation of the cemetery and gave it its current name.

Notable burials

• Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (1869–1960), painter and art teacher
• Jacob Boll (1828–1880), naturalist and entomologist
• John Henry Brown (1820–1895), newspaper publisher and member of the Texas legislature
• Nathaniel Macon Burford (1824–1898), politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
• Robert Emmet Burke (1847–1901), US Congressman
• Ben E. Cabell (1858–1931), mayor of Dallas
• William Lewis Cabell (1827–1911), mayor of Dallas
• John Riley Duncan (1850–1911), Texas Ranger and Bounty Hunter
• J. M. Howell (1849–1925), Dallas city alderman
• Levin Major Lewis (1832–1886), Confederate army general
• Benjamin Long (1838–1877), mayor of Dallas
• William Stewart Simkins (1842–1929), Confederate soldier purported to have fired first shot of Civil War
• Christopher Columbus Slaughter (1837–1919), American rancher, banker and philanthropist
• J. M. Thurmond (1836–1882), attorney and mayor of Dallas
• John H. Traylor (1839–1925), politician, developer, mayor of Dallas
• Alexander White (1816–1893), US Congressman from Alabama
• Frank W. Wozencraft (1892–1966), mayor of Dallas
• Nelson Bunker Hunt (1926–2014), billionaire, horse-breeder and major financer of the John Birch Society

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