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Western Heights Cemetery is another Texas Historic
Cemetery with one of Texas' infamous characters, Mr. Clyde Barrows.
NTCP is proud to help maintain this Historic Cemetery in cooperation
with family members and the Dallas County Pioneers
Association.
The Marker
reads:
"Western Heights Cemetery
Located on Part of the original William
Coombes Survey, burial in this cemetery date to the 1850's.
Originally known as Troth, it was formally dedicated in 1881, when
land was set aside for a "graveyard forever" by Z.E. Coombes and W.
R. Fischer. Pioneers interred here include W. R. Fisher, Z.E.
Coombes, John and Rosina Loupot, Mary Ellen Cole Tuggle, and
Heinrich and Anna Struck. Also buried here are veterans of the Civil
War and World War I and II, and Clyde and Buck Barrow."

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