FIRST Burial in Rylie Cemetery - Dallas, TX
N 32° 41.463 W 096° 38.533
14S E 721044 N 3619494
A Texas Historical Marker at one of the gates to Rylie Cemetery indicates that Reden Allumbaugh was the first burial in the cemetery, back in 1889.
Waymark Code: WMQ3RH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2015
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The Texas Historical Marker provides some background:
In 1878, John Armstrong Rylie donated land at this site for use as a school by settlers of this part of southeast Dallas County. The property came into service as a cemetery with the burial of Redden Allumbaugh in 1889. Since that time, more than 400 persons, including a number of Rylie Prairie community's earliest settlers and their descendants, have been interred here. The cemetery contains the burial of at least one Civil War veteran, Hartwell Bolin Cox. The Rylie Cemetery Association was founded in 1962 to maintain the graveyard.
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Mr. Allumbaugh's grave marker is simple marble footstone with "R. Allumbaugh" as the only thing inscribed. Nearby is the headstone of John Allumbaugh, but it is not clear as to their relationship. Perhaps father and son, suggested on Geni.com. (
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