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Subject: Re: [TXCem]
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:43:28 EDT


Sandra, can you give a date on the document where your found your MASSIE use
of Houston Cemetery Company?

you might be interested in the following excerpt ...
Trevia

At Rest: A Historical Directory of Harris County, Texas, Cemeteries
(1822-2001) Including Burial Customs and Other Interesting Facts, With a Listing of
Past and Present Communities, Funeral Home and Monument Companies. 2nd Edition
enlarged from 307 to 509 cross-indexed listings. Compiled by Trevia Wooster
Beverly (Tejas Publications & Research, Houston, 2001).

184. GLENWOOD CEMETERY: 2525 Washington Avenue, Houston TX 77007.
713.864-7886. 62 acres Incorporated May 1871. Originally the Houston Cemetery Company,
name was changed to Glenwood in February 1872. First burial recorded at the
Harris County Court House was that of A. K. Taylor, 29 Mar 1873, Section C, Lot
106. Records at Glenwood record a Mr. Daily buried in 1838. By 1873 there
had been thirty burials, with 100 lots sold. Unique with its brick and granite
copings and the finest collection of old tombstones in the city. Beautifully
landscaped grounds with a wide variety of trees. The Victorian cottage, circa
1888, was moved from the downtown area to serve as an office. Texas Historical
Markers for Colonel Benjamin F. Terry, Edwin Fairfax Gray, and others.
Prominent names and families represented: Howard Hughes (most visited grave),
Anson Jones (see note on Episcopal Masonic), George Herman, Mary Jane Allen
Briscoe (John Harris Allen's only daughter), former Texas governors William P. Hobby
(H:12), Ross Sterling (H:91), and James Wilson Henderson (F:124), as well as
H. B. Rice, former mayor of Houston, Glenn McCarty of oil and Shamrock Hotel
fame, and the first wife of Clark Gable, Maria Franklin Gable. Also buried at
Glenwood is the T. W. House family, including Edward Mandell House, diplomat
and advisor to President Woodrow Wilson. Binz, Scanlan, Quinlan, Neuhaus,
Herman, Pillot, Lee, and Pollok are just a few of Houston's familiar family names
in Glenwood. Not long after its establishment various churches and fraternal
societies purchased plots, including the Masons, Woodmen of the World, Odd
Fellows, Typographical Union. Records on site, research by staff only. See “The
New Cemetery” HOUSTON WEEKLY TIMES 17 Jun 1871; “Frightening Image Guards
Pistol Dead” (no reference) 18 Apr 1948; “Vandals Hit Glenwood Cemetery”
HOUSTON POST 20 Mar 1991 also Vertical Files of the Houston Public Library, Texas
and Local History Department. RECORDED: Genealogical Record 21:4:1979. 493J

An interesting, and now humorous note, found in THE HOUSTON DAILY POST
of Tuesday, June 15, 1880: THE CITY. Glenwood Cemetery. For sometime past it
has been noticed that a greater part of the persons visiting Glenwood
cemetery are composed of females whose characters will not bear inspection, and it is
somewhat disagreeable for ladies of refinement and respectability to be
thrown in contact with such parties, and it is to be hoped in some way the evil may
be remedied, as the sanctuary of the dead is not a fit place for lewd and
disreputable individuals to select as a rendezvous.


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