Oakwood Cemetery in Jacksboro, Texas photographs from Necropolis Creep. Photography by Warren Paul Harris

Oakwood Cemetery - Jacksboro, Texas

June 15, 2008

Castleberry and Carpenter graves

Oakwood Cemetery entrance

Allie - broken headstone

Joseph Henson tombstone 1887

Oakwood Cemetery plaque

Scrappy Thompson headstone - 1.5 years old

Row of low-profile tombstones

Mc marker block

Henry Homer Wood - 2 years old 1894

Baby Henson - 1897

M.W. Wall + Rebekah Wall - aged 7 years

Frank Oz 1899 / Rose A. 1917 / Joeephine Myers 1962

Stack of tombstone pieces

Infrared view of cemetery

Edward R. Suess - US Navy 1997

Jerry Simpson age 15

reverse side of Jerry Simpson

Iva G Allen tombstone

James A Nelms, Sr monument

Row of tombstones

Row of monuments: Adams, Cherryhomes, Lacewell, Raines

James T. Leach 1884

Oakwood Cemetery
Jacksboro, Texas
June 14, 2008
Burial ground for over a century - graves dating from 1859. Land was given by old settlers, 1883-1904.

Mary Hensley 1899 - Ann M Cooper 1896

Frances Yokum - 1873

I didn't have nearly the time I would have liked to explore this amazing necropolis in the Oakland hills. If you plan to visit, allow a whole day to truly appreciate it.

Old settlers era tombstones