Save Austin's Cemeteries

Our Organization

Save Austin’s Cemeteries (SAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving historic cemeteries in Austin through documentation and education, and to promote historic cemeteries of Austin as local and state cultural resources. Members and volunteers donate their time and talents to better document the condition and inventory at cemeteries and to provide education and awareness.

Goals:

Develop Cemetery Master Plan

Identify Key Preservation Issues

Build Community Support through Education and Membership

Current Projects:

Site Analysis of each City Cemetery for Master Plan Development

Restoration of the Oakwood Chapel Building

Walking Tour Programs

Oakwood Headstone Documentation

Austin's City Cemeteries:

Oakwood (est'd 1839)

Oakwood Annex (est'd 1914)

Evergreen/Highland (est'd 1926)

Austin Memorial Park (acq'd 1941)

Plummers (acq'd 1957)

City of Austin Cemeteries Presentation** 10 MB download

 

Events - Members & Guests Welcome

Sat Jul 12 -- "Save Austin's Cemeteries will meet at the Double Tree Hotel next to Oakwood Cemetery for its July quarterly meeting to beat the heat.
Board meeting from 9:00 to 10:00 followed by regular meeting from 10:00 to 11:30 featuring Janene Jeffrey's talk on 'Symbolic Art on Tombstones.'
Many thanks to Double Tree Hotel for their donation of air conditioned space!"

Qtrly Mtg Sat Oct 11, 10 am, Oakwood Chapel

 

 

A recent storm tore through Austin on May 14, leaving downed trees and scattered branches across Oakwood Cemetery and Oakwood Cemetery Annex.
As city workers will not be able to get to the cemeteries until after neighborhoods have been cleared, SAC sent out emails to Members and Friends calling upon them to come out for a clean up session.
On Saturday May 24, volunteers converged on Oakwood Cemetery to clean up leaf and branch debris. Volunteers toiled for 3 hours, bagging some 85 bags of debris.
Many thanks to our hard-working volunteers -- Gerron Hite, Linda Colianni, Lee Owens, Judith, Anita and Nellie Johnson, Bob Ward, Slade Cleaves, Roy Richardson, Kay Boyd, and Dale Flatt.
With gratitude and thanks, Leslie Wolfenden (president)