City of Lubbock Cemetery

City of Lubbock Cemetery. . , In March 1892, a delegation of Lubbock residents requested five acres of pasture land from pioneer minister H.M. Bandy for use as a cemetery. At the time, about fifty people were living in the community. That same month, they held the first burial, that of a Cochran County cowboy, Henry Jenkins, who died of pneumonia while staying at Lubbock's Nicolette hotel. The first Lubbock resident buried at the city cemetery was Joseph R. Coleman, who died in June 1892. His small cross-shaped headstone, no longer in existence, was the first erected in the cemetery. Both graves are located in the southeast part of the cemetery, in the oldest grouping of burials., The cemetery has held as many as four separate burial grounds, segregated by race, faith and economic level. Records indicate 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, organized in 1926 and provided for the burial of area migrant workers, with many headstone inscriptions written in Spanish. The cemetery was integrated in the late 1960s., With more than sixty thousand graves and covering 160 acres, the City of Lubbock cemetery is one of the largest in Texas. Burials here represent a broad cross-section of the city's history. Among those interred here are noted rock and roll musicians and songwriters Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly) and Mac Davis. Historic Texas Cemetery .