• Burial at TDCJ’s Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. CREDIT: Michael Stravato, Texas Observer.
  • The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is open to the public and is one of the most well maintained cemeteries that you'll find anywhere.
  • Located a few blocks from the first prison in Texas, the 1848 Huntsville Penitentiary, the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 3...
  • Inmates bury their own graves By Sarah Bradley SAN MARCOS – The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, located in Huntsville, Texas, becomes home to the...
  • The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is located about a mile southeast of the Walls Unit on Bowers Boulevard. It covers twenty-two acres between Sycamore...
  • Of the roughly 450 inmates who die in Texas prisons each year, about 100 are laid to rest in Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville.
  • Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is a Cemetery in TX. Plan your road trip to Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in TX with Roadtrippers.
  • About a mile South of the famous Walls Unit in Huntsville, TX, is a small nondescript cemetery. This is the Captian Joe Byrd Cemetery.
  • Every year, some 100 inmates who die in the Texas prison system are buried at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery outside Huntsville, the nation’s largest prison...
  • Its official name is Captain Joe Byrd, but most people in Huntsville, Texas refer to the prison cemetery as ‘Peckerwood Hill.’