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Month: April 2023

Recent Cemetery Visits: Old Letot, Letot and Mooneyham-Sparkman

Old Letot Cemetery, North Dallas: Member’s comments: Gate was locked but was able to take some pictures from outside. If John Deere does maintain they are nearby on Harry Hines Blvd. but it does not look like it has been mowed for a long time. Letot Cemterery, North Dallas: Member’s Comments: This cemetery is at…
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Wesley Cockrell Cemetery Cleanup & Restoration

On March 18, 2023 a number of our members and guests spent the morning at the old Wesley Cockrell Cemetery cleaning up and repairing a few tombstones with the help of Mike & Shelly Rowlands. Don’t overlook the Wesley Cockrell Cemetery wildlife!

Western Heights Headstone Repair Workshop

On Saturday, April 15, 2023 DCPA and the Fort Worth Ave. Development Group held a hands-on headstone repair workshop with one of Texas’s foremost authorities on Historic Gravestone and Monument Preservation – Mike Rowlands. Mike demonstrated how to safely clean, reset, and perform repairs on historic headstones. The process of putting back together a broken-in-half…
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Enoch Noah Bennett and wife, Mary Ann Vanzant, wife Jane Vanzant and wife, Rachel Josephine Beckner

From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Enoch Noah Bennett was born 4 November 1854 in Dallas County, to Sarah Dougan (Bennett) and Hiram Bennett. He was the fourth child of his mother and the fourteenth child of his father. When he was about ten years old, his family…
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Wesley Cockrell Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) This cemetery is at the dead end of Dwight Street just south of Jefferson Avenue on the western side of the City of Dallas. To the west is Mountain Creek Lake, and the escarpment. From this high spot to the south is a new facility, the Dallas National Golf…
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Recent Cemetery Visits: Northaven Park and Pioneer Cemetery of Garland

Northaven Park Cemetery, North Dallas Member’s Comments: “Went by Northaven Park today (next to Harry C Withers elementary school). Keep in mind that the grave markers that I recall were flush with the ground on the west side of the creek that runs through the area including the park and the memory was from 50…
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