Oaklawn Cemetery
Dating to 1900, this graveyard was first called the Somerville and Lyons Cemetery. Land was purchased by J. W. Lauderdale to establish a cemetery upon the death of his two-year-old son Charles on November 6, 1900. The name was changed to Oaklawn Cemetery in 1913. Among the more than 2000 burials are 22 Civil War veterans, 20 children between 1900-1905, and victims of a typhoid fever epidemic in 1903. The construction of the dam at Somerville in 1963 caused 16 people to be reinterred here from other graveyards. The cemetery is still in use. (1996) (Historic Texas Cemetery medallion added 2002)
30.3621° N, 96.5438° W
Where to Find It
Oaklawn Cemetery, SW side SH 36, 350 feet SE of Church St./CR 422. Marker is 60 feet SW of SH 36 inside entrance. 1996 subject marker and 2002 HTC medallion.
Nearby Markers
- 1.2 mi SE First United Methodist Church of Somerville Somerville
- 1.4 mi SE Somerville Somerville
- 1.4 mi SE 1906 Reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade Somerville
- 1.4 mi SE Site of the Somerville Harvey House Somerville
- 1.5 mi SE Thomas J. Gary Somerville
- 1.5 mi S J. L. Woods' Undertaking Company Somerville