Pioneer Park Cemetery

Pioneer Park Cemetery is a conglomeration of four graveyards with the remains of several of the city’s earliest founders. It is located in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas and directly east of Pioneer Plaza. It is the final resting place for four Dallas mayors, the city's early business leaders and heroes of the Texas revolution. Also located in the cemetery is the Confederate War Memorial.

Famous Interments

Crockett, John McClanahan,
b. December 16, 1816  d. August 4, 1887
John McClannahan Crockett, second mayor of Dallas, state representative, and lieutenant governor of Texas, son of Robert McClannahan and Elizabeth (White) Crockett, was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, on December 26, 1816. His father was a South Carolina state representative, and his grandfather, Robert Crockett, was a Revolutionary War soldier.

Good, John Jay
b. July 21, 1827  d. September 17, 1882
Dallas Mayor, Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Good attended Tennessee's Cumberland University and studied law in Mississippi before he was admitted to the bar in 1849. He initially opened a law practice Marion County, Alabama, but with an inheritance from his father he settled in Dallas, Texas in 1851. The following year he was elected Commander of a Dallas militia group in the Hedgcoxe War. During the Civil War Good served the Confederacy as Captain of an artillery battery he organized.

Pryor, Samuel B.
  b. 1816  d. 1866
Dallas Mayor. Pryor served as the Mayor of Dallas from 1856 to 1857. He also served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.