Descendants Day - April 7th

Call for descendants, family members, and volunteers!!

Western Heights Cemetery

Descendants Day & Family Photo

Sunday, April 7th, 3:00

And not just descendants -- any relatives (and their spouses). If you have a large photo of your ancestor/family member please bring it for you to hold during the photo. If you have letters, documents, obituaries or other photos of relatives buried at Western Heights please scan them for us. LET'S MAKE WESTERN HEIGHTS ONE OF THE MOST WELL DOCUMENTED OLD CEMETERIES IN DALLAS.

Are you familiar with Story Corps? While we have descendants here on April 7th, we would love to get oral histories from especially our most senior folks.  

Would you be willing to volunteer to interview someone and record their stories about the cemetery, their relatives there, and life in the neighborhood and Dallas in general back in the day? If so, please email Van Johnson.

Free cemetery tours at 12:30, 1:30, and 4:00

Family Photo at 3:00

PLEASE FORWARD TO ANY DESCENDANTS / FAMILY MEMBERS YOU ARE AWARE OF.

There's so much more to see than just Clyde Barrow's grave. Civil War soldier's gaves both Union and Confederate, La Reunion colonists, people from Germany (7), France, Switzerland, Hungary, England, and "Sanwan" (!) California. Three headstones are written in German. The man whom Coombs Creek was named after, the guy that laid the 12,000 lb. cornerstone during the building the State Capitol in Austin on the 49th birthday of Texas Independence, markers dating back to 1861 and graves dating back to 1848 etc etc.

Tour covers local history, military markers, native plants, soil type, family wealth, infant mortality rates, socioeconomic status of women in the 1800s, symbolism in gravestone art and poetry, etc.