| Location: | Mount Auburn Cemetery is located behind Oakland Cemetery at Pine, Electra and Spring street and adjacent to City Pauper Cemetery. |
| GPS: | 32.764558, -96.756041 |
| Mapsco: | 46Y-U |
Three cemeteries were established behind Oakland Cemetery when in 1901 the city of Dallas and Dallas County each purchased six acres of land from J A and Mattie Crawford. [Dallas County Deed Book 265, Page 475 and Book 265, Page208-9.] The city’s property was divided into the City [pauper] Cemetery and Mount Auburn Cemetery. Burials in Mount Auburn began around 1911.
The city and the county shared the responsibility for the burial of pauper dead. A map of these cemeteries obtained from the Dallas Municipal Archives files shows the City Pauper Cemetery, Negro Section City Cemetery, and Dallas County Pauper Cemetery. View Map.
The Mount Auburn Cemetery records here contain burials from 1911 to around 1932. There are only a few tombstones in the area of Mount Auburn Cemetery. The entries in the database are based on Texas Certificates of Death available through FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com.
See the information page and database for City Cemetery (1906-1932) for those buried there.
