Pleasant Mound Cemetery

Newton J. Hustead (1838 to 1908) and Catharine Beeman Hustead (1840 to 1889), who gave the land to the Methodist church in 1881, are buried here with an infant daughter who died in 1882, according to a local transcription of the graves. A marker honors Annie M. Lanham (1869 to 1951) as a niece of John Neely Bryan. Lt. Peter G. Patton, commanding officer of the USS Deal, died in naval service in 1913 and is buried here. Many stones carry Masonic and Woodmen of the World emblems.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Mound Cemetery At the intersection of two well-traveled pioneer roads, now Buckner Blvd. and Scyene Rd., this cemetery serves as a reflection of the heritage of this area. Burials took place on the property as early as 1869, but the first marked grave, that of William L. Knox, dates to 1881. In that year, Newton and Catherine (Beeman) Hustead formally donated the land to the Pleasant Mound Methodist church for use as a cemetery. Over the years, additional acreage was added to the cemetery, which has been maintained by the Pleasant Mound Cemetery Association since 1906. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 4.6 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.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 4.8 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.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 6.0 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.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 7.0 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.

More markers nearby

• Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery — steps away
• Pleasant Mound Methodist Church — 1.1 mi
• W.W. Glover Cemetery — 1.4 mi
• Site of Scyene Meeting Place — 1.5 mi