Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)

The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It was the first cemetery in Houston to be professionally designed and opened in 1871. The cemetery is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou.

Buried in the cemetery is William P. Hobby, after whom Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas is named. Ironically enough, in 1938, the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, known at the time as Houston Municipal Airport, was re-named "Howard Hughes Airport," but the name was changed back after people objected to naming the airport after a living person. This is also the location of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley's family gravesite. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/schumata/tags/dentoncooley/] Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, is also buried here. [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/fjo42_print.html]

This historic cemetery is the final resting place of a number of individuals who were citizens of the shortlived Republic of Texas. The grave sites of those individuals have been designated with a metal marker and are frequently decorated with the flag of the Republic and State of Texas.

Notable burials

*Edward Benjamin Cushing "S.P. Superintendent of Maintenance of Way, benefactor and in second class of TAMU for whom the Library was named in the 1930’s"
*Edward Hopkins Cushing, "Editor and owner, Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph"
*Joseph S. Cullinan, "Founder of Texaco"
*William Stamps Farish II, "Co-founder, Humble Oil Company"
*Albert Bel Fay, "U.S. Ambassasor to Trinidad and Tobago"
*Maria "Ria" Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable, "Texas socialite, married to Clark Gable 1931-1939"
*James Wilson Henderson, "Governor of Texas 1853"
*Oveta Culp Hobby, "U.S. Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare 1953-1955"
*William P. Hobby, "Governor of Texas 1917-1921"
*Roy Hofheinz, "Father of the Astrodome"
*Roy M. Huffington, "U.S. Ambassador to Austria 1990-1993"
*Howard R. Hughes, Jr, "Aviator, Industrialist"
*Howard R. Hughes, Sr., "Co-founder, Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, later renamed Hughes Tool Company"
*Anson Jones, "President, Republic of Texas 1844-1845"
*Edgar Odell Lovett, "President (1st), Rice University 1912-1946"
*Glenn McCarthy, "King of the Wildcatters"
*Hiram Runnels, "Governor of Mississippi 1833-1835"
*Walter Benona Sharp, "Co-founder, Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, later renamed Hughes Tool Company"
*Ross S. Sterling, "Governor of Texas 1931-1933; Co-founder, Humble Oil Company"
*Gene Tierney, "Hollywood Actress"
*Margaret Kinkaid, founder of The Kinkaid School in Houston's Piney Point area

External links

* [http://www.glenwoodcemetery.org Glenwood Cemetery Web site]
* [http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Grave_Thoughts/Glenwood/glenwood.htm Information on Glenwood]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/schumata/tags/glenwoodcemetery/ Glenwood Cemetery Photographs]