Oakwood Cemetery

Oakwood is really three cemeteries sharing a fence. Wikipedia's history says the oldest part, the New City Cemetery, was limited to White burials, Trinity Cemetery served Black Fort Worth, and Calvary was set apart for Catholics in 1880 at the request of Bishop C. W. Dubois of Galveston. A five-member board formed in 1926 had to include two women, among the first Jennie Scott Scheuber, the city's first librarian. Bartenders from Hell's Half Acre lie in Bartenders' Row, and the district joined the National Register in 2018.

What the plaque says

Oakwood Cemetery Founded 1879 by John Peter Smith, one of Fort Worth's first settlers, who became a civic leader, mayor, philanthropist. He gave 20 acres to city; cemetery since enlarged to 100 acres. The area contains three cemeteries: Oakwood, Calvary, Trinity. Many Fort Worth and Tarrant County men and women of destiny are buried here. Plots are owned by lodges, unions, Catholic, Protestant, Negro, and White. Tracts are dedicated to Union and Confederate soldiers. The Chapel was built in 1914. Oakwood, Calvary associations, and city provide care. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 1.3 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 1.3 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 1.7 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 2.2 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• John Peter Smith_Oakwood Cemetery Founder — steps away
• General Thomas N. Waul, C.S.A. — steps away
• Governor Charles A. Culberson — steps away
• Euday Louis Bowman — steps away