Greenwood Cemetery

ID: 1472 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
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Greenwood Cemetery

The city of Waco established Greenwood Cemetery in 1875, and the city divided the land equally into segregated sections by race. The cemetery served as a final resting place for many citizens of Speegleville and Waco, including famed baritone Jules Bledsoe.

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By Nell Buice Barton & Amanda Sawyer
Two years after Texas became a republic in 1836, Israel Washington Speegle formed a wagon train in Tennessee with several of his brothers and his wife’s family members and moved to Texas. When Texas was admitted to the union in 1845, McLennan County…