Broadway Cemetery,
Galveston Island, Texas USA

Rosewood Cemetery

Neglected for years and now flanked by chain motels, Galveston Island's first African American cemetery has a new owner. Last month local developers John and Judy Saracco donated a one-acre parcel of the originally eight-acre cemetery to the Galveston Historical Society. Only 20 headstones remain in Rosewood Cemetery, which a descendant sold to a developer. "Most of the graves are unmarked," says Dwayne Jones, executive director of the Galveston Historical Society.

The society plans to restore and allow visitors into Rosewood Cemetery, which African American's founded in 1911. City records show that 411 people were buried there, the last in 1944, but only 20 markers remain.

GALVESTON COUNTY CEMETERY AND LOCATION

ALTA LOMA CEMETERY – State Highway 6 at Ave M - Santa Fe, TX

BARBOURS CEMETERY – Farm to Market 519 to Jackson St. – Hitchcock, TX

BENSON CEMETERY (Closed) - Cemetery Road – Dickinson, TX

BETH JACOB CEMETERY - 61st Street and Ave T ½ - Galveston, TX.

CALVARY CATHOLIC CEMETERY 2506 65TH Street – Galveston, TX

CAMPBELL’S BAYOU CEMETERY (Closed) - Swan Lake on private property – Texas City, TX

CITY CEMETERY DICKINSON - 4617 State Highway 3 - Dickinson, TX

CRYSTAL BEACH COMMUNITY CEMETERY – State Highway 87 and Mr. G. Road – Crystal Beach, TX

DOUROUX CEMETERY (Closed) – Farm to Market 519 to South Side of Douroux – Hitchcock, TX

EPISCOPAL CHURCH CEMETERY - 4613 State Highway 3 – Dickinson, TX

EPISCOPAL CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd St. at Avenue K – Galveston, TX

EVERGREEN CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd St. at Avenue K – Galveston, TX

EVERGREEN CEMETERY (PRIVATE) - Oak Land off of Cemetery Road – Santa Fe, TX

FAIRVIEW CEMETERY - Kansas at 7th St. – League City, TX

FRIENDS CEMETERY (Private) - 502 Friendswood Dr. S – Friendswood, TX

GALVESTON MEMORIAL CEMETERY – Farm to Market 519 and Memorial Dr. – Hitchcock, TX

GRACE MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY – State Highway 6 between Avenues A and B – Hitchcock, TX

GREEK ORTHODOX CEMETERY - 61st Street between Avenues S ½ and T - Galveston, TX

HEBREW BENEVOLENT CEMETRY - Between 40th and 43rd St. at Avenue K – Galveston, TX

HIGH ISLAND COMMUNITY – Third Street - High Island, TX

INDIAN BURIAL GROUND (Closed) – Port Bolivar, TX

LAKEVIEW CEMETERY - 3015 - 57th Street – Galveston, TX

KARANKAWA INDIAN BURIAL GROUND – Bob Smith Drive – Jamacia Beach – Galveston Island, TX

KELSO CEMETERY – Farm to Market 1765 and Albert Street – LaMarque, TX

MAGNOLIA CEMETERY - State Highway 3 and 19th Street - League City, TX

MAGNOLIA CREEK CEMETERY (Private) - 701 Apple Drive – League City, TX

MAGNOLIA CEMETERY - Algoa, TX

MAGNOLIA GROVE CEMETERY (Closed) - Galveston Municipal Airport – Galveston, Texas

MAINLAND MEMORIAL CEMETERY – State Highway 6 to Sunset Street – Hitchcock, TX

MEMEORIAL CEMETERY - Ave T and Maco Ave From 59th to 61st – Galveston, TX

MEMORIAL PLAQUES OF WW 1 - 23rd to 27th Street on Broadway – Galveston, TX

MOUNT OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY – Interstate Highway 45 between Holland Rd and Dickinson Bayou, Dickinson, TX

MUNICIPAL CEMETERY - Ave T ½ and 59th Street and Memorial – Galveston, TX

NEW CITY CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd at Ave K – Galveston, TX

OBITZ (OPITE) CEMETERY – Farm to Market 2004 at Highland Bayou – Hitchcock, TX

OLD ARCADIA - Dickinson, TX

OLD CATHOLIC CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd Street at Ave K. – Galveston, TX

OLD CITY CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd Street at Ave K. – Galveston, TX

OLD HITCHCOCK – PERTHUIS CEMETERY – Farm to Market 519 and Memorial Dr. – Hitchcock, TX

OLEANDER CEMETERY - Between 40th and 43rd Street at Ave K. – Galveston, TX

PATTON (YATES) CEMETERY - Bay Vue Dr. – Crystal Beach, TX

PAUL’S UNION CEMETERY - Between Apricot and Stubbs Sts on Oak St.- LaMarque, TX

PERTHUIS, HIPOLITE – OLD HITHCOCK CEMETERY – Farm to Market 519 and Memorial Dr. – Hitchcock, TX

PHILLIPS MEMORIAL CEMETERY – State Highway 3 at Mentor Dr. – Texas City/LaMarque, TX

POOR FARM (Closed) - Walter Hall Park – League City, TX

PORT BOLIVAR CEMETERY – State Highway 87 at Magnolia Rd – Port Bolivar, TX

RISING STAR CEMETERY - Bayou Rd and 1st Street – LaMarque/Texas City, TX

ROSEWOOD CEMETERY (Closed) - Between Seawall and Central City Blvd. – Galveston, TX

SAN LEON CEMETERY - 22nd and 23rd on Bayshore Dr. – San Leon, TX

SERBIAN ORTHODOX CEMETERY - 2700 Block of 61st Street – Galveston, TX

SIMPTON CEMETERY – Port Bolivar, TX

TRINITY COLUMBARIUM - 2216 Ball, Galveston, TX

TEXAS CITY MEMORIAL - 29th Street at Loop 197 – Texas City, TX

Different cultures have different attitudes to destruction of cemeteries and use of the land for construction. In some countries it is considered normal to destroy the graves, while in others the graves are traditionally respected for a century or more. In many cases, after a suitable period of time has elapsed, the headstones are removed and the now former cemetery is converted to a recreational park or construction site. A more recent trend, particularly in South American cities, involves constructing high-rise buildings to house graves.

Many places have been found where ancient people buried their dead. Such a place could be an organised necropolis or it could simply be an area with highly symbolic elements (like the Tomb of Giants in Sardinia). The Egyptian pyramids were tombs.

The Cimetière des Chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine in Paris is an elaborate pet cemetery believed to be the first zoological necropolis in the world.

In many countries, cemeteries are objects of superstition and legend; they are sometimes used (usually at night-time) for black magic ceremonies or similar clandestine happenings. In Haiti the traditional belief regarding zombies as practiced under Voudun religion is connected with burial rituals. It is believed that the zombified individual is buried alive in a coffin in a shallow grave after being poisoned with a mixture containing tetrodotoxin from the puffer fish to slow his heart so he appears dead even to medical practitioners. At night, after all the burial ceremonies have been completed, a clandestine operation to dig up and take the zombified individual into slavery is undertaken by followers of the voudun priest. This legend of zombies, as investigated by Wade Davis in The Serpent and the Rainbow, is exceptional among cemetery myths. Little conclusive evidence has been found for vampires or other supernatural cemetery-dwellers.