Oliver Loving - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry: Loving, Oliver
Address: Front St. in Greenwood Cemetery
City: Weatherford
County: Parker
Subject Codes: pioneers; cattle, cattle industry topics; cowboys
Year Marker Erected: 1977
Marker Location: Greenwood Cemetery, Front Street, Weatherford
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Related Waymark:
Old City Greenwood Cemetery: WM5242

Marker Number: 3850 Marker Text: The Dean of Texas Trail Drivers (1812-1867) Founder of three major cattle trails, Oliver Loving came from Kentucky to Texas in 1845 and to Parker County about 1855. During the Civil War (1861-65), he supplied beef to Confederate forces. With Charles Goodnight as partner on a drive to New Mexico, Loving scouted ahead of the cattle, was badly wounded by Indians, lay five days without food before his rescue, and died of gangrene on September 25, 1867. His dying wish was fulfilled when his son Joseph joined Goodnight to bring the body 600 miles by wagon for burial in this county. Recorded, 1977.

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