Greenwood Cemetery

The first burial here was Mrs. Susan Bradford, in March 1875, when the ground was Trinity Cemetery on the edge of town among farms. Wikipedia says the Greenwood Cemetery Association took over in 1896 and gave it the present name. Its list of notable burials includes Vivian Aunspaugh, a painter and art teacher who lived from 1869 to 1960, rancher and banker Christopher Columbus Slaughter, Texas House Speaker Nathaniel Macon Burford and mayor Ben E. Cabell. The Freedman's Cemetery Memorial lies adjacent.

What the plaque says

Greenwood Cemetery Greenwood Cemetery was part of a Republic of Texas grant, called the John Grigsby League, given for service in the Battle of San Jacinto. W. H. Gaston, pioneer Dallas banker, acquired title to the site in 1874, after the noted local legal battle, "The Grigsby Cases," and founded Trinity Cemetery. Greenwood Cemetery Association assumed operation in 1896. Many people prominent in the histories of the city, state and nation rest here, in addition to casualties and verterans of every American military involvement since the War between the States. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 0.9 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.5 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 2.0 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 2.6 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Freedman's Cemetery — 0.4 mi
• Dallas Symphony — 0.8 mi
• City of East Dallas — 1.3 mi
• Hoblitzelle, Karl St. John — 1.4 mi