Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas)

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Greenwood Cemetery

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Established	1875
Location	3020 Oak Grove Ave Dallas, TX
Country	United States
Coordinates	32°48′04″N 96°47′53″W / 32.80111°N 96.79806°W / 32.80111; -96.79806Coordinates: 32°48′04″N 96°47′53″W / 32.80111°N 96.79806°W / 32.80111; -96.79806 GNIS: Greenwood Cemetery
Type	Non-denominational
Owned by	Greenwood Cemetery Association
Find a Grave	Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery is privately owned non-denominational cemetery located in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1875 as the Trinity Cemetery, the first burial was a Mrs. Susan Bradford that March. At the time, 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

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