Old City Greenwood Cemetery

✞ ✞ Old City Greenwood Cemetery background and history. Includes Old City Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford, Texas maps, description, info and more.

This is a Weatherford, TX government website and has some information on Old City Greenwood Cemetery.

This is a somewhat recent article from the Star Telegram about Jim Wright a former U.S. House speaker who was to be buried at Greenwood cemetery.

IKARD, BOSE (1843–1929). Bose Ikard was born a slave in July 1843 in Noxubee County, Mississippi, and became one of the most famous black frontiersmen and traildrivers in Texas. He lived in Union Parish, Louisiana, before his master, Dr. Milton Ikard, moved to Texas in 1852. Several months later Bose helped Ikard's wife, Isabella (Tubb), move the family's belongings and five children to their new home in Lamar County and soon afterwards to Parker County. The young slave grew to adulthood with his owner's family, learning to farm, ranch, and fight Indians as the Civil War drew near.

LOVING, OLIVER (1812–1867). Oliver Loving, cattle driver, son of Joseph and Susannah Mary (Bourland) Loving, was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on December 4, 1812. On January 12, 1833, he married Susan Doggett Morgan, and for the next ten years he farmed in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The Lovings became the parents of nine children, four of whom were born in Texas. In 1843 Loving and his brother and brother-in-law moved their families to Texas. In the Peters colony, Loving received 639.3 acres of land in three patents and counties—Collin, Dallas, and Parker. The family stopped for a year in Lamar County and had settled in Collin County before 1850. Loving farmed and, to feed his growing family, hauled freight. By 1855 the Lovings had moved to the future Palo Pinto County, where they ran a country store near Keechi Creek and ranched. The first assessment roll of Palo Pinto County, taken in 1857, listed Loving with 1,000 acres of land. To market his large herd, Loving drove them out of Texas. In 1857 he entrusted his nineteen-year-old son, William, to drive his and his neighbors' cattle to Illinois up the Shawnee Trail. The drive made a profit of thirty-six dollars a head and encouraged Loving to repeat the trek successfully the next year with John Durkee.

MARTIN, MARY VIRGINIA (1913–1990). Mary Martin, musical theater star, was born Maria Virginia Martin in Weatherford, Texas, on December 1, 1913. She was the younger daughter of Preston and Juanita (Presley) Martin. Her father was an attorney, and her mother was a violin teacher. Family and friends encouraged Mary to perform in local theater as a child, and she began taking voice lessons at age twelve. At sixteen she attended Ward Belmont Finishing School in Nashville for a few months. She married Benjamin J. Hagman, a Weatherford accountant, on November 3, 1930, and soon left school. The couple went back to Weatherford, where their son, the actor Larry Hagman of Dallas fame, was born in September 1931.

Bose Ikard's granite marker at Greenwood Cemetery. Charles Goodnight purchased the marker and wrote the epitaph for his friend Ikard.

The grave of Oliver Loving which in and of itself is a Texas State Historical Marker.

This is a statue of Mary Martin as Peter Pan outside of the Weatherford Library. The two cuties hanging on the statue are my two oldest children.