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MOUNT CALVARY CEMETERY

From the forthcoming book, RICHARDSON: A History of One of the Biggest Small Cities in Texas

Although it is located in Dallas, many early Richardson and Richardson area residents are buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, which was formally established in 1868 when landowner William Huffhines donated a two-acre site that included some earlier burials. In 1896, C. C. Huffhines donated a little more land as did C. B. Chick in 1928. Among those buried here are John Huffines, Sr. and wife, John Huffhines, Jr. and wife, Richardson postmaster Richard Clay Howser, James Henry Strait, killed in a hunting accident, World War One soldiers, Roy V. Meason and Oscar Copas, and Clifford Wright, victim of another hunting accident. A Texas Historical Commission marker stands near the front gate.

LOCATION: Mount Calvary Cemetery is located in Dallas, immeidately south of Richardson,on Valley View Lane (near Valley View Park), where the road starts to curve south.

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