Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas)

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.^[1]

Notable burials

• 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 (1927-1911), Confederate army general
• 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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