Hutchins Memorial Cemetery

Records for this cemetery were made in pieces. The Dallas Genealogical Society says it was in use by 1875 and established in 1895, and that there is evidence of unmarked graves. The Lancaster Genealogical Society inventoried the main portion in June 1970, and the Dallas society published that work in 1989. A back portion outside the inventory was surveyed by volunteers in April 1993, and the society lists the African American section separately. The plaque names Alonzo Clark, eleven when he died in 1875, as the earliest marked burial, and Texas Escapes calls him the first resident.

What the plaque says

Hutchins Memorial Cemetery Hutchins began as a trading post for settlers along the western bank of the Trinity River. This site was used as a cemetery for many years before it was platted in 1895. The earliest marked burial in the graveyard is that of Alonzo B. Clark, who died in 1875 at age eleven. Several generations of area pioneer families are represented here. Those interred in the Hutchins Cemetery include many of the area's early citizens, military veterans, and business and civic leaders. A cemetery foundation, formed in 1972, maintains the historic graveyard. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• African American Museum, Dallas — 9.2 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.
• Fair Park — 9.3 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 9.3 mi
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• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 10 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.

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• Former Site of Head House — 4.6 mi
• Town of Lancaster — 4.6 mi
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