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The M Street Cemetery?

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Lee 08/10/2015 at 9:24 AM

Is this near the abandoned duplex with the purple stucco and/or The Water Tank/Water Tower? Think I remember hearing something about this when that house was for sale – that there was an unmarked/forgotten cemetery somewhere nearby. Nothing terribly specific though.

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Dave Seibert 08/10/2015 at 10:14 AM

Yes Lee I believe the house you’re talking about is on the corner of 30th and M St.

I have some friends who live on that block and always thought that the property lines were kind of peculiar. Interesting to know that there’s a story behind it.

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Alex 08/10/2015 at 11:26 AM

And with that, a couple dozen houses just hit the market…

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Dallas 08/11/2015 at 8:05 AM

Ground penetrating radar might clear the possibility right up…

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dontmincewords 08/11/2015 at 8:25 AM

True @11. May end up looking like the Jewish Cemetery in the bottom surrounded by mid-rises, but at least it is recognized and respected.

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Eric Huffstutler 08/13/2015 at 6:32 PM

This must have been a private cemetery and a deed search (some have drawn maps) is in order. The 1877 map shows a large chunk of the block owned by the E.J. Clopton estate and the upper part more towards M was part of the Eliza O. Kelley paroprty. No cemetery shown. This area on the 1905 map is void of any cemetery indication as well other than a number 2 over it and nothing to say what that means in the map keys.

Many years ago there was two family cemeteries side-by-side located at 23rd and Marshall Streets – one for the family of Thomas Adams and a smaller one called the Picketts cemetery. Both had the bodies moved to Hollywood into basically a mass grave,

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Eric Huffstutler 08/13/2015 at 6:53 PM

Dallas @11… this doesn’t always produce because, depending on the age of the graves, how the body was or wasn’t prepared, and the type of coffins, there may be nothing left but discolored dirt. A friend of ours who once worked at a funeral home, had been on call to exhume a body to bury elsewhere. Only a stain was found so they took and reburied a clump of dirt. Sometimes you may find a nail or a handle but that is about it. If the soil was in a dry area then bones or more may be found.

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