W.W. Glover Cemetery

The burial ground left a paper trail under another name. The Dallas Genealogical Society says some death certificates list the cemetery as Urbandale, after a town that Dallas took in during 1981. Transcriptions of its stones appeared in the society's June 1970 Quarterly and in The Mesquite Tree in 1966 and 1973, and researchers have added burials found in death certificates and newspapers. The plaque counts more than seventy graves. The first was five-year-old Sarah Beeman, buried on March 22, 1857, and the last burial came in 1951, after nearly a century of use.

What the plaque says

W.W. Glover Cemetery Early Dallas County settler George W. Glover acquired this land in 1844. The property was first used as a cemetery for the interment of five-year old Sarah Beeman who died on Mar. 22, 1857. In 1872 Glover deeded the property to his son William Wald Glover (1846 - 1928) for whom the cemetery was named. Among those buried here are the younger Glover and early Dallas settler and civic leader Richard Lagow. This community burial ground, which contains over 70 gravesites of pioneer settlers and their families, was last used in 1951. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 3.2 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 — 3.4 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 — 4.7 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 — 5.6 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 Cemetery — 1.4 mi
• Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery — 1.5 mi
• Buckner Baptist Children's Home — 1.7 mi
• Pleasant Mound Methodist Church — 2.3 mi