| Marker Number |
8647 |
| Atlas Number |
5051008647 |
| Marker Title |
Oaklawn Cemetery |
| Index Entry |
Oaklawn Cemetery |
| Address |
16054 TX-36 |
| City |
Somerville |
| County |
Burleson |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
736041 |
| UTM Northing |
3361476 |
| Subject Codes |
cemetery |
| Marker Year |
1996 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Oaklawn Cemetery, SW side SH 36, 350 feet SE of Church St./CR 422. Marker is 60 feet SW of SH 36 inside entrance. 1996 subject marker and 2002 HTC medallion. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" marker and HTC medallion |
| Marker Text |
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) |
