FIRST One Buried in Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery - Dallas, TX
N 32° 45.795 W 096° 40.974
14S E 717054 N 3627416
A granite marker in the general vicinity of where Sarah Crawford Beeman was buried in 1848 stands at the northeast corner of the Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery, and it notes hers as the first burial in the cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM12XF3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/01/2020
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There is no headstone for Mrs. Beeman to be found inside the cemetery, and many other markers have been lost to theft and vandalism. General Dallas lore is that Mrs. Beeman's final resting place is actually outside of the cemetery. It may be in the general area of where the marker stands, and it might be under the actual intersection of Buckner Blvd and Scyene Rd. Accounts note that, for a long time, there was a fence around her grave site, but with progress came change...
You'll see one or two of these granite "pioneer woman" types of markers around the Dallas area, featuring a woman in the appropriate clothing, with a baby in one arm and holding a rifle. A box below reads:
Sarah Crawford Beeman
Dec. 15, 1815
Mar. 8, 1948
First one buried in this cemetery
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A 1972 Texas Historical Marker notes that Mrs. Beeman was a member of a prominent pioneer family, referencing her burial as the one that ultimately turned this section of her husband's land into this cemetery:
In 640-acre survey of James Jackson Beeman (1816-88), uncle by marriage of John Neely Bryan, first settler in Dallas. Beeman came here from Illinois in 1840, helped cut first road in Trinity Bottoms; name Turtle Creek, 1841; and plat city of Dallas, 1842.
On March 8, 1848, he buried his wife Sarah Crawford Beeman on northeast corner of his land, and later allowed neighbors to bury their dead here. Cemetery's first (1887) trustees were J.W. Miller, James Pruitt, and J.H. Shannon.
Pioneers buried here set the course for greatness of Dallas.
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While the marker suggests that Mrs. Beeman was the de facto first burial, the incise plate on the reverse of the historical marker confirms it:
Marker Donated By
Mildred Boone (Mrs. Joel) Haden, great-granddaughter of Sarah Crawford Beeman, first person buried in this cemetery, and by the Ada Bruton Garden Club of Dallas
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 03/08/1848
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