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Notable Residents

Notable residents of Western Heights Cemetery, including Clyde and Buck Barrow, Augustine Byram, and Capt. Zachariah Coombes.

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Augustine Byram

The cemetery’s first burial – 1848 – and earliest known birth date – 1789.
Section F6, grave 8.1

Buck Barrow

Great Depression-era celebrity gangster.
Section B2, grave 6.2

Clyde Barrow

Great Depression-era celebrity gangster.
Section B2, grave 6.1

Ida Mae Murphy

Woman whose two-story house sheltered more than 30 people during the great flood of 1908.
Section E4, grave 19.1

John and Rosina Loupot

La Réunion colonists.
Section A2, graves 25.1 and 25.2

Louise Elizabeth Tilley

Longest-known lifespan in the cemetery at 102 years.
Section B6, grave 14.2

Mary Ellen Cole Tuggle

Born in 1845, she is alleged to be the first recorded, non-native child born in Dallas to live to adulthood.
Section D3, grave 16.1

Capt. Zachariah Coombes

Texas state legislator; Grand Master of Masons in Texas; laid the 12,000 pound cornerstone at the Capitol building in Austin, Texas, on the 49th anniversary of Texas Independence on March 2nd, 1885.
Section F6, grave 18.1
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26 veterans including 16 from the Civil War, both Union and Confederate
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Seven immigrants from England, six from Germany, two from France, two from Switzerland, and one each from Mexico, Hungary, and Russia.
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