Oaklawn Cemetery
16054 TX-36, Somerville, TX, USA
Texas, USA
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EST. 1900
EST. 1900
1900
HISTORIC PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Oaklawn Cemetery.
The Texas Historical Commission Atlas records this marker as in situ at the listed location. It remains part of the state marker inventory; the placement description and coordinates in this row follow the current official Atlas record and should be field-verified before publication.
About Oaklawn Cemetery
Oaklawn Cemetery in Somerville was founded in 1900 as the Somerville and Lyons Cemetery when J. W. Lauderdale bought land for a burial ground after his son Charles died. Renamed Oaklawn in 1913, it grew to hold more than two thousand burials, including Civil War veterans and children who died in a 1903 typhoid epidemic. Construction of the Somerville dam in 1963 led to sixteen reinterments there.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Oaklawn Cemetery
Dating to 1900, this graveyard was first called the Somerville and Lyons Cemetery. Land was purchased by J. W. Lauderdale to establish a cemetery upon the death of his two-year-old son Charles on November 6, 1900. The name was changed to Oaklawn Cemetery in 1913. Among the more than 2000 burials are 22 Civil War veterans, 20 children between 1900-1905, and victims of a typhoid fever epidemic in 1903. The construction of the dam at Somerville in 1963 caused 16 people to be reinterred here from other graveyards. The cemetery is still in use. (1996) (Historic Texas Cemetery medallion added 2002) Source: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5051008647
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