In researching Houston Cemeteries this morning, I have found that the Washington Street and Glenwood Cemeteries were founded after 1870. I also found that the Founders Memorial Cemetery was full in the 1850s, and a City Cemetery II was built in the 1860s on Girard, north of town. Later the city built the Jefferson Davis Hospital and then the Fire Department Maintenance Facility over the cemetery. Though some graves were moved, most were not. During different constructions bones have been found. Some were re-inturned on the site and others relocated. There are few records for over 10,000 graves, Though I still have hopes this does dash cold water of reality on the situation. There are only a small hand full of known head stones.

It is sad that the growth of a city has destroyed a cemetery for the people who contributed to that growth. How many other heroes are buried there, and how many potential heroes died in the many epidemics of Houston. The city and the Fire Department have restricted the area. It should be a site for anthropological study to preserve those that remain, and to see if those that have been moved can be identified. Of course, because of cost, it will never happen.