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Lubbock Cemetery:An Inventory of its Records, 1917-1990 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
Biographical SketchIn March 1892, a delegation of Lubbock residents requested five acres of pasture land from rancher H. M. Bandy for use as a cemetery. That same month, they held the first burial, that of Cochran County Cowboy, Henry Jenkins, who died of pneumonia while staying at a local hotel. The first Lubbock resident buried at the city cemetery was Joseph R. Coleman, who died in 1892. His small-crossed shaped headstone, no longer in existence, was the first erected in the cemetery. The cemetery has held as many as four separate burial grounds, segregated by race, faith, and economic level. Various and distinct cemetery associations maintained these burial grounds throughout the twentieth century. One such group, Los Socios Del Sementerio, or associates of the cemetery, provided for the burial of area migrant workers. The cemetery was integrated in the late 1960s. With more than sixty thousand graves, the City of Lubbock cemetery is the third largest in Texas. Burials here represent a broad cross-section of the city's history. Among those interred is the noted rock and roll musician and songwriter Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly). Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentA donation of financial materials, burial records, and other files from the Lubbock Cemetery mostly composed of death books from 1917 to the 1950s, which further contain "Colored Burials," the burial records for Buddy Holly, and records of the Spanish language section of the cemetery. It also includes records of lots bought and sold, and permits and maps of the cemetery itself. The majority of the records came from bound ledger books, and these have been preserved in order within the files. A/V material includes microfilm and CD copies of the Death Books and financial files. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationLubbock Cemetery Records, 1917-1990 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas AcquisitionCollection accession #(s): Gift, 2010 Processed byNicholas Wallace, 2012 Return to the Table of Contents Collection Inventory
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