|
Olivewood's
Centerpiece Angel
Monument to dentist Milton
Baker erected by his wife. |
Olivewood
Cemetery Historical Marker |
| View from the NW corner.
Downtown Houston can be seen in the background
(right) behind parked trucks of Grocer's Supply Co. |
"Queen
of the Neches Chamber
4791 Beaumont,
Texas"
Unearthed by the NCCC Team in February of 2011 |
| A tombstone
firmly held by Hackberry trees |
| WWI
Veteran showing Masonic Membership |
| Many concrete tombstones
had their inscriptions formed by a mold (examples above and below). |
| Another molded tombstone,
this one with indented sides, shows the three-linked chain symbol of the International
Order of Odd Fellows. |
| Academic or piano
player? "Professor" was once used for both. A very small stone - about
one foot tall. |
| The Reverend A.F.
Jackson was "Murdered at Dallas, Texas (December 12, 1889)" |
| Vandalized tombstone
of the Reverend Henry Stewart of Greenville, Kentucky. "Gone before us, oh,
our Father, to the spirit land." |
| Olivewood
Cemetery's "Second" Angel |
| Missing
statue from 2010 visit |
| King
gravesite from 2010 visit |
| Broken
grave curbing caused by unmaintained growth |
| The
homemade sign was erected in April of 2008. |
| "...under
the guidelines of the THC." |
| "Directional
signs begin on Washington Avenue near Heights Blvd." TE photo, February 2011 |
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