Oakwood Cemetery
Also known as Park Lawn Cemetery
Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA
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Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1878 and has grown into one the most beautiful cemeteries in the area. Oakwood was once the site of a horse racetrack far to the south of the City of Waco and out the dirt road known as South 5th Street. The racetrack and immediate environs were the location in 1874 of Waco's earliest agricultural fair organized by the Texas Agricultural, Horticultural, Mechanical and Industrial Association, Norman H. Conger, President.
Prior to 1878, the First Street Cemetery was Waco's only public burying ground. Through the good offices of Mayor E. A. Sturgis and the help of interested Wacoans such as John Sleeper, the abandoned racetrack area was acquired by the city, and Oakwood Cemetery was established.
In 1898, under a State Charter, government of the cemetery was centered on a Board of Directors elected annually on a rotating basis and serving for five years.
Thirteen women were to comprise the board with an Advisory Board of six men. The 1898 Directors were Mesdames G.B. Gerald, James I. Moore, Jennie Holmes, Waller S. Baker, A. Symes, Louis Crow, Richard Coke, J.G. Fall, M.C. Hutchins, W.A. Hamilton, Julia Boggess, J.W. Weaver and Mrs. Mollie Oliver. Also active in forming the first Board were Mrs. E.J. Ashburn and Mrs. M.B. Willis.
Source: Oakwood Cemetery Association
Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1878 and has grown into one the most beautiful cemeteries in the area. Oakwood was once the site of a horse racetrack far to the south of the City of Waco and out the dirt road known as South 5th Street. The racetrack and immediate environs were the location in 1874 of Waco's earliest agricultural fair organized by the Texas Agricultural, Horticultural, Mechanical and Industrial Association, Norman H. Conger, President.
Prior to 1878, the First Street Cemetery was Waco's only public burying ground. Through the good offices of Mayor E. A. Sturgis and the help of interested Wacoans such as John Sleeper, the abandoned racetrack area was acquired by the city, and Oakwood Cemetery was established.
In 1898, under a State Charter, government of the cemetery was centered on a Board of Directors elected annually on a rotating basis and serving for five years.
Thirteen women were to comprise the board with an Advisory Board of six men. The 1898 Directors were Mesdames G.B. Gerald, James I. Moore, Jennie Holmes, Waller S. Baker, A. Symes, Louis Crow, Richard Coke, J.G. Fall, M.C. Hutchins, W.A. Hamilton, Julia Boggess, J.W. Weaver and Mrs. Mollie Oliver. Also active in forming the first Board were Mrs. E.J. Ashburn and Mrs. M.B. Willis.
Source: Oakwood Cemetery Association
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