Oak Cliff Cemetery

Kentucky native William S. Beaty came to Texas during its early days as a Republic and received a grant of 640 acres of land. He and his brother, Josiah, who arrived in 1836, settled along the Trinity River in what is now Dallas County. The settlement that developed around their property first was called Hord's Ridge and became known as Oak Cliff in 1887. In 1846, William Beaty deeded 10 acres of his land for a public burial ground and indicated in the deed that his brother, Josiah, already had been interred on the site. The deed also specified that the cemetery should be subject to no one sect but should forever remain open to all. The oldest marked grave in the cemetery, that of Martha A. Wright, is dated 1844. Many prominent Dallas County pioneers and citizens have been buried here, including Judge William Hord, for whom Hord's Ridge was named. Two former Dallas mayors, George Sergeant and George Sprague, and a son of Gen. Sam Houston, Col. William Rogers Houston, are buried here. Oak Cliff Cemetery remains a valuable and historic link to the early settlement of Dallas.

Oak Cliff Cemetery is a historical marker in Dallas, Dallas County, dedicated in 1985. It is one of 352 historical markers documented in Dallas County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 574 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.7509, -96.8053 near Dallas. The nearest cataloged historic site is Tenth Street Historic District Freedmans Town (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Oak Cliff, Oak Cliff United Methodist Church, and Cooke, Colonel William G..

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5113006801. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.