Glenn Cemetery
Tolar, Hood County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Glenn Cemetery, in Hood County, was established to serve residents of Bluff Dale, an Erath County community west of this site. Andrew Jackson Glenn, for whom the burial ground is named, donated land for cemetery use in 1897. There were already graves on the property by then, the earliest dating to 1867. Many prominent early residents of Bluff Dale, including Glenn and veterans of military conflicts dating to the Civil War, are interred here. For more than 100 years, Glenn Cemetery has served residents of Bluff Dale and the surrounding area. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Though it sits in Hood County, Glenn Cemetery grew up to serve the Erath County community of Bluff Dale to the west. Andrew Jackson Glenn, its namesake, donated the land in 1897, but graves already dotted the property, the earliest dating to 1867. Many of Bluff Dale's leading early residents—and veterans of conflicts reaching back to the Civil War—rest here.
Why it matters
The cemetery is a quiet record of North Central Texas frontier settlement, holding the pioneers who built a community that its burial ground has outlasted for well over a century.
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