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Sam Houston Memorial Grave and James Gillespie Monument
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Historical
Marker TextOakwood
Cemetery This cemetery
existed as early as 1846. For three graves were placed here that year. Pleasant
Gray, Huntsville's founder, deeded in 1847
a 1,600-square foot plot at this site. The original tract has been greatly enlarged
by other donations from local citizens. Numerous graves bear the death date 1867,
when a yellow-fever epidemic swept the county. Among the many famous persons buried
here are General Sam Houston;
Henderson King Yoakum, author of the first comprehensive history of Texas; state
congressmen; and pioneer families.
1976 |
Oakwood Cemetery Historical Marker
Ave. I entrance to Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville
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courtesy Barclay
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Sam Houston Memorial Grave and Monument
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Gibson, October 2010 |
Excerpted
from Huntsville:
Old Sam, Prisons and Pine Trees
"The
East Texas Sunday Drive Book" by Bob Bowman
"Sam
Houston Memorial Grave and Monument in Oakwood Cemetery. Since 1911, an impressive
monument inscribed with the promise that "the world will take care of Houston's
fame" has marked the grave of the first President of the Republic of Texas. The
cemetery can be reached by traveling down the two blocks of Spur 94, the shortest
highway in Texas, which intersects Texas 190." |
Sam Houston Memorial Grave and Monument Inscription
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Col Henderson Yoakum Monument
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Back of James Gillespie Monument
"Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers,
Sixth Company Infantry, Texan Revolutionary Army."
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