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Duane's take
The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the voice carrying it down the road. Now, Dallas County has roots that go down deep, deeper than most folks stop to think about on a highway drive, and out here the land itself remembers things. George W.
Glover remembered things too. He acquired this particular piece of ground way back in 1844, when Dallas County was about as settled as a nervous horse. Early days.
Real early. For a while, the land was just land. But then came March the twenty-second, 1857, and with it, a grief no family forgets.
A five-year-old girl named Sarah Beeman died that day, and she became the first soul interred in what would grow into a community burial ground. Five years old. The land shifted its purpose quietly, the way land does.
The years moved on. George W. Glover kept the property, and then in 1872 he deeded it over to his son, William Wald Glover, born in 1846, and from that transfer forward, the cemetery carried the younger Glover's name.
William Wald Glover himself would live until 1928, and when his time came, he joined the others in the very ground his father had once passed down to him. There's a certain poetry in that, if you're inclined to notice it. Among the more than seventy gravesites of pioneer settlers and their families resting here, you'll also find Richard Lagow, an early Dallas settler, a civic leader, a man who helped shape what this county became.
Seventy-some souls, pioneers and their kin, laid to rest across the decades. The cemetery last received the departed in 1951, and there it stands, quiet now, holding more than a century's worth of Dallas County history in that old ground George W. Glover first walked in 1844.
Some places carry the whole story of a place. This is one of them.
What the marker says
Early Dallas County settler George W. Glover acquired this land in 1844. The property was first used as a cemetery for the interment of five-year old Sarah Beeman who died on Mar. 22, 1857. In 1872 Glover deeded the property to his son William Wald Glover (1846 - 1928) for whom the cemetery was named. Among those buried here are the younger Glover and early Dallas settler and civic leader Richard Lagow. This community burial ground, which contains over 70 gravesites of pioneer settlers and their families, was last used in 1951. (1983)