Western Heights Cemetery

Located in the NW corner of Ft. Worth Ave. Exact address 1617 Ft. Worth Ave, Dallas, Texas, 75208. Cemetery was originally dedicated in 1848. The name of the cemetery has changed four times. Original name Troth Cemetery, later in 1881 the cemetery was formally dedicated and the name changed to Struck Cemetery. The name changed again at a later date to West Dallas Cemetery. The current name of the cemetery is Western Heights Cemetery. Question concerning this cemetery may be referred to Trinity Oak Church Of Christ, Dallas, Texas.

Famous Interments

Barrow, Clyde
b. March 24, 1909  d. May 23, 1934, Outlaw.
Even though he lived on the edge of the law as a youngster, Clyde Chestnut Barrow's first crime was not until an auto theft in 1926 at the age of 17. Clyde, one of several sons of a poor East Texas sharecropper, had little formal education, but had learned "street smarts" from teenage gangs in the Dallas, Texas area. At a slim 5'7" frame with a face of an innocent baby, he was attractive to women.

Barrow Sr., Marvin (Marvin) Ivan 'Buck'
b. March 14, 1905  d. July 29, 1933, Outlaw.
Born in Jones Prairie, Marion County, Texas, the third child of Henry and Cumie Barrow. At 18 or 19 Marvin, better known as "Buck" went to Dallas, to work for his brother repairing cars, but he quickly became part of the West Dallas petty-criminal underworld. He married twice and divorced twice during this time, and had three children by those marriages. On November 11, 1929, Barrow met Blanche Caldwell in an unincorporated part of Dallas County called West Dallas.