- It was then that the assistant warden of the Huntsville Unit, Captain Joe Byrd, cleaned up the grounds with his crew and discovered 900 graves at the cemetery.
- Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery. ... The cemetery is very old, Victorian-era old, so the total number of prisoners buried there can only be estimated- over 3000.
- Burial at TDCJ’s Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. CREDIT: Michael Stravato, Texas Observer.
- The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is a chilling reminder of how wrong life can go. The bodies of Offenders who die in prison may be claimed by their families.
- Named for the assistant warden who was in charge of clearing the cemetery of debris and locating over 900 graves, Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the only active...
- Originally called Peckerwood Hill, the cemetery was later renamed after Captain Joe Byrd, who helped clean up and identify many of the graves.
- Going back a couple years into the Rootless archives, we have the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, TX where some of the most notorious serial killers...
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- The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the main prison cemetery of the U.S. state of Texas, located in Huntsville and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal...