CSA Memorial -- Oakwood Cem., Tyler TX
N 32° 21.219 W 095° 18.544
15S E 282712 N 3581980
A tall Confederate memorial dominates the landscape at Tyler's Oakwood cemetery
Waymark Code: WMKQ41
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/14/2014
Views: 11
This dignified Confederate soldier on a pedestal of white marble towers over the dear departed at Tyler's historic and peaceful Oakwood Cemetery.
The monument reads as follows:
[N side]
The Confederacy gave to the World its best type of Soldier.
1861-1865
[E side]
Fame has erected another monument to the honor and valor of the Confederate Soldier, more enduring than this and towering into the skies.
[S side]
The dust of 231 brave Confederate Soldiers, who, at the call of duty, fought for the right, repose here. After forty years, they are still remembered and honored, because they died for their Country.
[W side]
Erected by the Mollie Moore Davis Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
by popular subscription,
AD 1907
In tender reverence for the memory of the Confederate Soldiers from Smith County who fought in the Armies of the Confederacy.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 07/06/1909
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Mollie Moore Davis Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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