OLD CITY CEMETERY

Houston, Harris Co. Cemeteries of TX

Submitted by George Wolf, Jr

Located at Girard at Elder, Houston,Texas.
Under the old Jefferson Davis Hospital and other city buildings. Cemetery 1836-?, Confederate graveyard within cemetery now under firestation. Only gravestones showing are the Super family.
At one time was a very large city cemetery.
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Charles August SUPER
Age 18
Died Sept. 27,1869

Mary SUPER
Died Aug. 4,1863

Mrs. W.M. SUPER

Listing of other burials.

George Brown, b? d 1844, Veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, 1st Reg., Texas Vol., Company B: Music-maker of San Jacinto.

Amos B. Edson, b? d 1837, Veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, 1st Reg., Reg. Infantry.

Joseph Ehlinger, b 1792 d 1845, Veteran of San Jacinto, 1st Reg., Texas Vol., Company F (William Heard's Co.)

James Hogan, b 1807 d 1864, Veteran of Battle of San Jacinto, Reg. Infantry, Company B.

James Wells, b 1817 d 1840, Veteran of San Jacinto, 2nd Reg., Texas Vol. Cavalry.

HOW DOES A CITY LOSE 10,000 GRAVES!!!!!!!
BECAUSE OF GREED-GREED-GREED!!!!!!

HOUSTON OLD CITY CEMETERY
MONUMENTS EST. 1836
"What Type Of Epitaph Would Best Honor The Deceased?"

HOUSTON OLD CITY CEMETERY
1986
"This Site Available" "Utility Hookups Included"
"Call For Info"
MARGULIES, 1986 Houston Post.

By 1840, Founders Cemetery became full. A new cemetery was created on a 5 acre tract near White Oak Bayou.
There was four sections. Potters field, black, the rich, and all others.
Victims of yellow fellow were burial here.
By the 1870's the cemetery was almost full.
Last burial's around 1904. In the 1920's the City of Houston and Harris County constructed the county hospital named later as JEFFERSON DAVIS HOSPITAL. Theoma Smith,73, stated "They are out there digging up peoples graves and just throwing the bones out!'' Joseph M., 80, remembers when they were building the hospital, there were putting bones in nail kegs or crates.
Were they reburied?, no one knows for sure.
In 1968, bones were discovered when the Fire Department maintenance facilities was built.
These bones were reburied in the MAGNOLIA CEMETERY in Houston.
On Sept. 6,1986 the City of Houston dug a 20 foot tench near Girard St. and uncovered 20 or more graves from the 1840 City Cemetery. Bones were taken from graves by workers.
There are still more graves out there. Why was something not done about this historical cemetery from the beginning. Houston,Texas should be ashamed of itself.