Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to Stones and Bones, episode number 14. I'm your host, Diane.

And this is Kelly. Kelly, we're going to be featuring a cemetery, Oak Grove Cemetery, which is located in Nacadoches, Texas.

This is probably the oldest city in Texas, so this is one of the oldest cemeteries in Texas. There's a lot of early settlers,

pioneers, men who fought in the Texas Revolution that are buried here. And we also have an

individual who lost their life in the sinking of a steamship on the Ohio River. So we'll be

talking a little bit about that tragedy as well.

There are places for our dead.

Places of peace and not dread.

Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones welcome to stones and bones Oak Grove Cove Cemetery is located at 196 North Lanana Street and was established in 1837 and is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city, making

it one of the oldest cemeteries in Texas because Nacadoches is the oldest city in the Lone Star State.

The cemetery was originally named American Cemetery and is located at the intersection of North

Lena Street and Hospital Street.

It is thought that it was called American

to differentiate from the Spanish Cemetery that dated to the 18th century mission. Oak Grove Cemetery

would become the official name in 1900 when a group of women formed the Cemetery Association

to protect the cemetery. They held onto it until 1950 and then handed it over to the city of Nacadoches.

The land here was part of the 1825 land grant of impresario Hayden Edwards. Edwards had been one of

the leaders of the 1826 Ferdonian rebellion. This rebellion was led by Hayden and his brother Benjamin

against the Mexican government. What got this started was that land grant by Hayden and his brother Benjamin against the Mexican government.

What got this started was that land grant that Hayden received.

These types of land grants were Empresario grants given to certain men as a form of permission

to settle in an area with multiple families.

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