- Burial at TDCJ’s Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. CREDIT: Michael Stravato, Texas Observer.
- 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.
- 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...
- This is in Huntsville, Texas and an apartment complex popular for the University students there overlooks it.
- On Saturday, November 2, the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy will gather at the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas to remember the 3...
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- Its official name is Captain Joe Byrd, but most people in Huntsville, Texas refer to the prison cemetery as ‘Peckerwood Hill.’
- The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is open to the public and is one of the most well maintained cemeteries that you'll find anywhere.
- Originally called Peckerwood Hill, the cemetery was later renamed after Captain Joe Byrd, who helped clean up and identify many of the graves.
- In 1962, Captain Joe Byrd, assistant warden at the Huntsville Unit, took the initiative to clean up the cemetery grounds.