Lisbon Cemetery

Lisbon was a person's nickname before it was a town. The Handbook of Texas says the community took its name in 1870 from Elizabeth Williamson, called Lisbon, who later kept a hotel there. For a few years the post office was named Virginia while everyone kept saying Lisbon. It was the first stagecoach stop out of Dallas toward Central Texas. Developers platted Bellevue beside it in 1913, the two incorporated as Lisbon in 1920, and Dallas annexed the town in 1929 when it had about 3,000 residents.

What the plaque says

Lisbon Cemetery In 1870 Samuel Sloan (1811-92) and E. A. Gracey (1837 - 1915) donated five acres of land near the center of the pioneer town of Lisbon, now part of Dallas, as a church and cemetery site. The oldest known grave is that of James J. Dowd, who died Oct. 24, 1871. A community church and school was erected in 1871; later separate churches were built. After the school was closed in 1917 and the churches were moved to other locations, the property was used only for burials. Descendants of the town's early settlers formed the Lisbon Cemetery Association in 1948 to restore and maintain the site. Marker Sponsor: Lisbon Cemetery Association (1975)

Where it stands

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