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Public Works Survey Division Cemetery Files, 1887-2005

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Collection 2005-005

Overview

Repository	Office of the City Secretary Dallas Municipal Archives 1500 Marilla Street, 5D South Dallas, Texas 75201
Creator	City of Dallas Park Board
Title	Public Works Survey Division Cemetery Files
Dates	1887-2005
Quantity	3.78 linear feet
Abstract	Typescript reports with folded landscaping plans.
Identification	2005-005
Language	Records are in English

Scope and Content

Survey documents, ownership records, notes, maps, and photographs documenting the boundaries and history of cemeteries within the city limits of the City of Dallas, as well as a number of cemeteries within Dallas County, Texas, and contiguous counties.

Surveying establishes land maps and boundaries for ownership or governmental purposes. The City of Dallas has surveyed the boundaries of cemeteries from the beginnings of city government, although a titled City Engineer, William H. Wentworth, was first appointed by the City of Dallas Board of Aldermen in 1872. The City of Dallas Survey Division was formed in the early 1930s when the entire Public Works Department was reorganized to provide surveying services to various city departments, as well as providing a resource for information relating to right-of-way and other city properties. Initially, the Survey Division dealt solely with right-of-way and boundary issues, but in 1978, the Survey Division began to assume most, if not all of the surveying operations for virtually all City departments.

The collection consists of both original materials generated by the Survey Division, other City of Dallas departments, and citizens, and copied materials from numerous sources, the bulk from the Dallas County Clerk’s Office. There are approximately fifty photographic prints from 1958 of the Pioneer Cemetery (aka the Old City Cemetery).

Because many of the cemeteries have common names as well as formal, the following table indicates known alternate names. Similarly, several containing the historic name “Colored,” were retained only when referring to previously segregated African-American portions of larger cemeteries. Also of special note is the present-day Pioneer Cemetery, which is composed of a number of smaller cemeteries.

Cemetery	Block or abstract #	Also known as
Agudas Achim	6179	Congregation Tiferet Israel and Mt. Sinai
American Memorial	None	St Johns Antioch, Sleepy Hollow Pet Cemetery, early slave graveyard
Anderson	James Loving Survey - Abstract 791	None
Antioch Church	8098	None
Arlington Park	7914	Old Trinity. Some also call it El Rancho Grande. See also Cemetery Drive.
Bear Creek	None	There are two cemeteries named Bear Creek. One is in Irving and is located at the corner of Compton and Conflans (now named Shady Oak Cemetery). The other one is on the west edge of DFW Airport on the edge of Bear Creek Golf Course and is still named Bear Creek.
Beatty Oak Cliff	3389	Beatty, Colored Section (Oak Cliff Cemetery), Pauper's (Oak Cliff Cemetery), Pioneer's Row (Oak Cliff Cemetery)
Beeman Family*	2639	None
Bennett Memorial	None	Bennett Cemetery
Big A	None	None
Big Springs	None	Big Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
Blewitt Family	None	Blewitt Cemetery (Now owned by the City of Richardson)
Bowles' Station	None	Bowles' Cemetery, Jordan-Hight Cemetery
Brickyard	None	None
Brookhaven	4048	McAdams Cemetery, McAdams Family Cemetery
Buckner Orphanage Cemetery	6127	None
Butler Nelson*	4438, 4439, 4440	L. Butler Nelson, Woodlawn, Woodland Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery, Hillgrove (Hill Grove) Cemetery, Glenoak (Glen Oaks) Memorial Cemetery
Calvary Hill	6447, 6448	Letot Cemetery
Caruth Family	5453	Pioneer
Carver Family	6723	Abraham Carver Cemetery, Albert Carver Cemetery, Solomon Carver Cemetery
Catholic Cemetery (at Hall Street)	634, 634 1/2	Old Calvary
Cemetery Drive	7415	Now shown as Carnation Drive but is unimproved. See also Arlington Park Cemetery
Cemetery Road	578	None
Civic Center Cemeteries	331, 331 1/2, 67	Odd Fellows and Masonic Cemetery, Tuberville Family Cemetery, City Cemetery, Trinity Cemetery, Old Jewish Cemetery, Hebrew Benevolent
Cochran Chapel	5075, 5076, 5088, 5082, 5077	Smith Hall Cemetery, Grave Yard to Methodist Episcopal Church South
Cockrell Family, Arcadia Park	7661	Wesley Cockrell Chapel Cemetery, Wesley Chapel Cemetery
Colored Cemetery - On Persimmon Road	6878	Persimmon Road Cemetery
Coming Home Community	6097	Homecoming Cemetery was originally two different Cemetery - Free Will Baptist Cemetery and Honey Springs Cemetery
Colored Section - Oak Cliff Cemetery	3389	Beatty (Beaty), Oak Cliff Cemetery, Pauper's (Oak Cliff Cemetery), Pioneer's Row (Oak Cliff Cemetery)
Confederate*	1782	Veterans' Cemetery
Coppell Cemetery	None	None
Cottonwood Cemetery	None	None
Cox	4407	Chenault Grave Yard, Also see block folder 4407 & 074D-5758
Cox, AV, Pleasant Mound	6179	Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Also see block folders 6179 & 6118
Cox, Mrs. ET, Annex No 1 to Pleasant Mound	6179	Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Also see block folders 6179 & 6118
Cox, Pleasant Mound	6179	Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Also see block folders 6179 & 6118
Crestview Memorial Park	8328	Horton Family, Horton Slave or Colored Section, Mt. Olive Cemetery
Crown Hill Memorial Park	6144	Old Smith Cemetery, See H.C. W 52-1, Linen tracing, and O45C-37, Cedarlawn Terrace Mausoleum
Daniel	860	None
Daniel's Family	1480	Westminster Place; See Vol. 204 Pg. 206
DFW National Cemetery	8644, 8687, 8688, 8699, 8700, 8701, 8702, 8704	See Blue Cut Road, Merrifield Road, Mountain Creek Parkway
Greenwood		King's Daughters, Trinity
Five Mile Cemetery	None	Five Mile Burial Grounds
First Roumanian of Austrian Congregation	2629	Roumanian, Austrian
Fish Trap*	7135	La Reunion, French Colony
Fussell Cemetery	None	Fussell Cemetery
Hebrew	633	None
Hebrew	331-1/2	Hebrew Benevolent Assoc.
Hickory	8806	Kleberg
Hillcrest Memorial Park	5453	None
Hillgrove	4439	Butler Nelson Cemetery and Nelson Park, Hillside Cemetery, Glenoak Memorial Cemetery, Woodland Cemetery
Hillside	4439	Hill Side
Hilltop Memorial Cemetery	None	Surrounds Perry Family Cemetery
Homecoming*	6097	Free Will Baptist, Coming Home Community Cemetery, Honey Springs Township, Bulova
Honey Springs (1)	6097	Honey Springs Township, Woodland, Free Will Baptist Cemetery, Bulova, Homecoming
Horton Family	8328	Mount Olive, Crestview Memorial
Hutchins	None	None
Johnson	6577	None
Johnson Family	1788	None
Johnson's Station	None	Johnson Pioneer Park and Cemetery
Kit	None	Old Pioneer Community Cemetery, Kit or Kitt Cemetery, Oak Grove Memorial [in Irving, TX]
Knights of Pythias	None	KP
La Reunion*	7135	Fish Trap, French Colony
Lagow	2126	Old Lagow Cemetery
Laurel Land	6626	Garland Mills Cemetery
Ledbetter Family	8016	None
Lee	850	None
Letot Family	6448 & 6471	Calvary Hill Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial	7956	None
Lisbon Church of Christ	4326	None
Little Bethel	124 and 1468	None
Long Creek Community	None	None
Loudermilk	None	Axe Cemetery
Lyons	1510	None
McAdams Family	4048	Brookhaven
McCoy	6118	Garland Mills Cemetery, KP (Knights of Pythias) Cemetery, Pleasant Mound
McCree	8080	Masonic Odd Fellows Cemetery, Old Dallas Down Town Cemetery, Pioneer Park (Also see above listed, block folders and Civic Center Cemeteries.)
McKamy – Campbell	6118	Brookhaven Cemetery, Also see Guthrie Ave. & Block 12/4048
Marsh Family	915	None
Masonic	67	Old Masonic, Masonic, Odd Fellows, Pioneer Park, Pioneer Plaza
Merrell	6425	Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery, Pioneer Cemetery, Elmwood Memorial Park, McKamy - Campbell
Merrifield*	4549	McCree Cemetery, McCree Colored Graveyard
Mesquite	None	Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery, Pioneer Cemetery, Elmwood Memorial Park
Miller	6091	Merrell Family Cemetery
Mills	None	Merrifield Family Cemetery, Also see block folder 4549 and E. C. Thomas Survey, Abstract # 1465, 1 & 2
Minter's Chapel	None	None
Mt Calvary	7727	Garland Mills Cemetery
Mt Olive Colored	8328	Crestview, Horton
Mount Sinai	6179	Old Home of Miller Family, "Miller" in City Park, Overton Family Cemetery
Myers Family	8587	Adjacent to Pleasant Mound Cemetery
Nance Family	1157	None
North Dallas Memorial Park	634-1/4	Mount Olive Baptist Church of Eagle Ford (Colored), Horton Family & Crestview Memorial Park, Inc.
Oak Cliff	3389	None
Oak Grove Memorial	None	See Freedman's Cemetery
Oakland	1766	None
Odd Fellows*	321 and 331 1/2	Old Dallas Masonic, Pioneer Park, Pioneer Plaza
Old City Cemetery*	331-1/2	Adjacent to Old Pioneer Community Cemetery of Kit or Kitt Paupers' - City, Paupers Negro
Old Smith	6144	Old Dallas Masonic Cemetery, Masonic & Odd Fellows, Pioneer Park, City Blocks 321, 3311/2 & Old Block 67
Opportunity Park*	1782	Mount Auburn, Pauper Cemetery (for blacks and whites)
Overton	6091	Overton Road Baptist Church
Paupers' City (Adjoining Oakland Cemetery)	1766	Mount Auburn, Park on Old City and County Poor Cemetery, on back of Oakland Cemetery
Paupers' at Letot	6471	None
Paupers Negro	1766	Mount Auburn, Park on Old City and County Poor Cemetery, on back of Oakland Cemetery
Paupers'	3389	Mount Auburn, Oakland Cemetery
Paupers'	8266	Old County Poor Farm
Paupers' County	1782	Mount Auburn, Oakland Cemetery
Perry Family	None	Oak Cliff Cemetery, Beaty Cemetery
Persimmon Road	6878	Old County Poor Farm
Pest House Tract	6056	None
Piedmont Baptist	6118	Surrounded by the Hilltop Memorial Park
Pioneer	6118	Colored Cemetery - On Persimmon Road
Pioneer	None	Woodlawn Hospital, Union Hospital, Parkland Memorial Hospital
Pioneer Park*	321 and 331 1/2	Odd Fellows, Masonic, Pioneer Plaza
Pleasant Mound*	6179 and 6179	Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Ridge	None	Pleasant Mound
Pleasant Valley	None	Garland Memorial Park Cemetery, Garland Mills Cemetery
Pleasant Valley	None	Pioneer
Pleasant Valley	None	Twin Lake Memorial Park
Restland	8406	Restland Memorial Park
Rhodes	385	None
Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens	850	None
Roumanian Cemetery	2629	First Roumanian of Austrian Congregation
Rylie	7788	Pioneer Cemetery
Scott	8210	Congregation Shaarith Israel Cemetery
Scott Family	7086	None
Shaareth Israel	2629	None
Smiths Hall Neighborhood	5088	None
Southland Memorial Park	None	Bowles' Station or Jordan Cemetery
Sowers Community	146	None
Swor	5088	Garvin Memorial Cemetery
Tefareth Israel	2629	None
Temple Emanu-El	634 1/4	Emanu-El, Hebrew Cemetery
Thomas (EC) Family	7288	None
Thomas Chapel	5457	None
Tompkins Family	1293	None
Trinity	578	Greenwood Cemetery
Vincent Family	None	Vincent Cemetery
Watson	None	Watson Family
Webb's Chapel	1576	None
West Dallas	3958	Christian Church, Western Heights
Wheatland	7562	None
White Rock Union Colored Graveyard	8165	None
Woodland*	4438	L. Butler Nelson, Woodlawn, Hillside Cemetery, Hillgrove (Hill Grove) Cemetery, Glenoak (Glen Oaks) Memorial Cemetery
* Owned and maintained by the Dallas Park and Recreation Department

Organization

The collection is arranged alphabetically by cemetery, followed by two folders of maps, general notes, and articles on Dallas cemeteries.

Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.

Citation

Public Works Survey Division Cemetery Files, 1887-2005 (Box <x>, Folder <y>), Dallas Municipal Archives

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Dallas Department of Park and Recreation General Subject Files, 1911-1960 (Collection 1995-023)

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Paupers Cemetery and Henninger-Brewer Company, 1914 (Collection 1996-034)

Index Terms

Cemeteries -- Texas -- Dallas

Cemeteries -- Texas -- Dallas County

Dallas -- Texas -- History

Container List

Box	Folder	Title, Date
1	1	Agudas Achim [Tiferet Israel; Mt. Sinai]
	2	First Roumanian or Austrian Congregation [Roumanian or Austrian]
	3	American Memorial [St. John's Antioch, early slave graveyard]
	4	Anderson - James Loving Survey
	5	Antioch Church & Cemetery
	6	Arlington Park - H. Bennett Survey
	7	Beatty [Oak Cliff]
	8	Bear Creek [in regional airport]
	9	Beeman
	10	Bennett Memorial [Mesquite]
	11	Big A
	12	Big Springs
	13	Blewett Family
	14	Bowles' Station [Grand Prairie]
	15	Brickyard [Mesquite]
	16	Brookhaven
	17	Buckner Orphanage
	18	L. Butler Nelson
	19	Calvary Hill 1
	20	Calvary Hill 2
	21	Caruth Family
	22	Carver Family
	23	Cason Alley [Edge of Woodlawn and Hillside Cemeteries]
	24	Catholic [Old Calvary at Hall Street]
	25	Cemetery Drive [Arlington Park]
	26	Cemetery Road
2	1	[Old] City Cemetery [Tuberville Family]
	2	[Old] City Cemetery 1
	3	[Old] City Cemetery 2
	4	[Old] City Cemetery 3
	5	[Old] City Cemetery 4
	6	[Old] City Cemetery [Report on Block 331½, W.H. Burke] 1
	7	[Old] City Cemetery [Report on Block 331½, W.H. Burke] 2
	8	[Old] City Cemetery [Tuberville Family]
3	1	Cochran Chapel
	2	Cockrell Family [Arcadia Park]
	3	Colored [Persimmon Road, Block 6878]
	4	Colored Section Oak Cliff in Beatty
	5	Confederate
	6	Coppell [Alfred Logsdon Survey]
	7	Cottonwood
	8	AV Cox Family - Pleasant Mound
	9	Mrs ET Cox Annex Number 1 - Pleasant Mound
	10	Cox Family - White Rock Lake
	11	Cox Property in Abstract 100 - Pleasant Mound
	12	Crestview Memorial Park
	13	Crown Hill Memorial Park
	14	Dallas-Fort Worth National
	15	Daniel
	16	Daniel Family
	17	Edgewood
	18	Elmwood Memorial park
	19	[Jewish Temple] Emanu-El
	20	Evergreen
	21	Ferris Family [Warren, also known as St. Francis]
	22	Field Family (colored)
	23	First Roumanian or Austrian Congregation [Roumanian or Austrian]
	24	Five Mile
	25	Floyd Family
4	1	Forest Lawn
	2	Frankford
	3	Frankford in Eli - Shephard Survey Collin County
	4	Free Will Baptist
	5	Freedman's 1
	6	Freedman's 2
	7	Freedman's 3
	8	French Colony [Old French Colony, Fishtrap, La Reunion]
	9	Fugitt at Hensley Field
	10	Garland
	11	Garland Memorial
	12	Garvin Memorial Cemetery [includes Swor family]
	13	Glen Oak Memorial
	14	Glover (Simms)
	15	Grapevine
	16	Greenwood 1
	17	Greenwood 2
	18	Grove Hill
5	1	Haley's Memorial [Irving Pioneer and Compton]
	2	Hebrew 1
	3	Hebrew 2
	4	Hebrew 3
	5	Hebrew [Block 633]
	6	Hickory [Kleberg]
	7	Hill Grove
	8	Hillcrest Memorial (1)
	9	Hillcrest Memorial (2)
	10	Hillside
	11	Homecoming
6	1	Honey Springs
	2	Horton Family
	3	Hutchins
	4	Johnson
	5	Johnson Family
	6	Johnson Station or Johnson Pioneer Park [Arlington, Texas]
	7	Keenan
	8	Kit [in Irving, Texas] adjoins Oak Grove
	9	Knights of Pythias [K. P.]
	10	Lagow
	11	Laurel Land 1
	12	Laurel Land 2
	13	Laurel Land 3
7	1	Ledbetter Family
	2	Lee [Seagoville]
	3	Letot Family
	4	Lincoln Memorial
	5	Lisbon Church of Christ
	6	Little Bethel
	7	Long Creek Community
	8	Loudermilk
	9	Loving Family
	10	Lyons
	11	McAdams
	12	McCoy Property - Tax sale Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery
	13	McCree
	14	McKamy-Campbell
	15	Marsh Family [Farmers Branch]
	16	Masonic [Old Dallas Downtown]
	17	Merrell
	18	Merrifield
	19	Mills
	20	Minter's Chapel
	21	Mount Calvary
	22	Mount Olive
	23	Mount Sinai
	24	Myers Family
	25	Nance Family
	26	North Dallas Memorial Park
	27	Oak Cliff
	28	Oak Grove Memorial
	29	Oakland
	30	Odd Fellows
	31	Opportunity Park
	32	Overton
8	1	Old Smith
	2	Paupers - Black Section of City, Block 1766
	3	Paupers - County, Block 1782
	4	Paupers - Grand Prairie [adjoining Hensley Field]
	5	Paupers - Oak Cliff in Beatty
	6	Paupers - Old County Poor Farm, Block 8266
	7	Paupers - Used by The Kings Daughters, Block 578
	8	Paupers - Letot
	9	Perry Family - Carrollton
	10	Persimmon Road
	11	Pest House Tract - Woodlawn Hospital, Union Hospital
	12	Piedmont Baptist Church
	13	Pioneer - Garland
	14	Pioneer - Pleasant Mound Public
	15	Pleasant Mound Includes Beeman information
	16	Pleasant Ridge
	17	Pleasant Valley
	18	Potter
	19	Rawlings -West of Lancaster
	20	Restland Memorial
	21	Rhodes
	22	Rose Lawn Memorial Garden
	23	Rowlett
	24	Rylie
	25	Scott - J. V. Mounts Survey
	26	Scott Family
	27	Shaareth Israel
	28	Shady Grove
	29	Smith Hall Neighborhood
	30	Southland Memorial Park - Grand Prairie
	31	Sowers Community
9	1	Tefareth Israel
	2	Thomas Chapel [Inside Glen Lakes Country Club]
	3	E. C. Thomas Family
	4	Tompkins Family
	5	Trees
	6	Trinity
	7	Ursuline Academy
	8	Veterans Administration
	9	Vincent Family
	10	Watson Family
	11	Webb's Chapel
	12	West Dallas [Christian Church or Western Heights]
	13	Wheatland
	14	White Chapel
	15	White Rock Union
	16	Woodland
	17	Cemeteries–General Articles 1
	18	Cemeteries–General Articles 2