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Oak Grove Cemetery
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, November 2010 |
Historical
Marker Text Oak
Grove Cemetery Originally
called "American Cemetery," Oak Grove Cemetery is located on the 1826 land
grant of Empresario Haden
Edwards. The leader of the 1826 Fredonian Rebellion, Edwards is interred here.
The earliest marked burial on this site is that of Franklin
J. Starr (d. 1837), a native of New Hartford, Connecticut and a local realtor.
Many graves from the early Spanish cemetery of Nacogdoches
were relocated to this site when the county
courthouse was erected on the Spanish cemetery grounds in 1912. The earliest
grave from that burial ground is marked, "Father Mendoza," 1718.
Oak Grove
Cemetery is filled with historical figures important both to Nacogdoches County
and the State of Texas. Perhaps the most famous is Thomas
Jefferson Rusk, judge, statesman and Sam
Houston's secretary of war. Like Rusk, Charles
Stanfield Taylor, John
S. Roberts and William
Clark, Jr., signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Other statesmen
and soldiers interred here include Captain Haden Arnold and Elias E. Hamilton,
veterans of the Battle
of San Jacinto; Jacob Lewis; James Harper Starr; General Kelsey H. Douglass;
George F. Ingraham; Nicholas Adolphus Sterne; Captain Frederick Voigt; and Dr.
Robert A. Irion, who also was Sam
Houston's personal physician.
Other burials of interest include those
of former slaves Mitchell Thorn, Lawrence Sleet and Eliza Walker. Frost Thorn
was among Texas' early millionaires; Deidrich Anton
Wilhelm Rulfs, Nacogdoches'
master architect, designed Zion Hill Baptist Church on the north side of the cemetery.
Richard William Haltom founded and edited Nacogdoches'
"The Daily Sentinel," and poet Karle Wilson Baker was the third person named a
fellow to the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Oak Grove Cemetery Historical Marker
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Franklin Jefferson Starr Tombstone
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Oldest Dated Grave: 1837
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Thomas J. Rusk Monument
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Charles Standfield Taylor
1936 Texas Centennial Marker
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Dr. Robert Irion Tombstone
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
Haden Edwards
1936 Texas Centennial Marker
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
John S. Roberts
1936 Texas Centennial Marker
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
William Clark, Jr.
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Goolsby, November 2010 |
William Clark, Jr.
1936 Texas Centennial Marker
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Goolsby, November 2010 | |
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