New board members were elected to the Greenleaf Cemetery Board of Trustees after an election Tuesday.
John Lee Blagg, Carol Spratt and Harold Hogan were the winners of Tuesday’s election to fill three open seats. Their four-year terms will begin on October 25, 2012, when the election results are officially certified by the current board.
The Greenleaf Cemetery Association expressed thanks everyone who participated in the election Tuesday.The Greenleaf Cemetery was established in 1868. Greenleaf Fisk gave five acres to the town for a burial place, and two and one half acres each the Pecan Valley IOOF Lodge No. 236, October 26, 1883, and to the Brownwood Masonic Lodge No. 141 AF and AM, December 3, 1883, making a total of ten acres for burial purposes. There have been four additions to the cemetery since then and now has over 18,000 burials. A section was set aside in 1958 for members of the Catholic denomination. The cemetery was named Round Mountain and later renamed Greenleaf. The Brownwood Garden Club built the present entrance. During 1918 they averaged about four burials a day due to the flu epidemic. At this time they had four crews digging day and night.
The Greenleaf Cemetery Association was incorporated April 10, 1923. The Greenleaf Cemetery is a non-profit perpetual care cemetery. Its governing body consists of seven board members, elected by members of the Greenleaf Cemetery Association. The cemetery is located off Highway 377 South (Brady Highway) across the railroad tracks within the city limits of Brownwood.
