Details for Pioneer Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5113006819

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Marker Number 6819
Atlas Number 5113006819
Marker Title Pioneer Cemetery
Index Entry Pioneer Cemetery
Address West Miller Road
City Garland
County Dallas
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 720090
UTM Northing 3642047
Subject Codes cemetery; churches; Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and United Methodist) denomination; pioneers
Marker Year 1986
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location West Miller Road, east of Saturn Road
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text The final resting place for many Dallas County pioneers, this cemetery began in the churchyard of Duck Creek Methodist Church, a congregation organized in the 1850s. The graveyard includes sections established by the Duck Creek Masonic Lodge (1883) and the Knights of Pythias Lodge (1900). The oldest marked burials date from the 1870s, although earlier death dates appear on graves relocated here from another cemetery. Interred here are local, state, and national elected officials, victims of a 1927 tornado, and veterans of conflicts from the War of 1812 to Vietnam.

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