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established under the condition that Arnold's body would be moved within the cemetery to a new Arnold Park. In 1917 it was discovered that the
Pioneers Rest property, long considered a "no-man's land," was actually owned by the City of Fort Worth, which had purchased it in 1880 for $ 76. After proposing to convert the property into a city park, the park board ultimately elected to return the property to the Pioneers Rest Cemetery Association and provide free water for maintenance of the cemetery.
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in 1853. Originally buried at Fort Graham, the following year his body was moved and reinterred at what was then Fort Worth's only public cemetery.
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veteran who helped build the original fort in 1849, Confederate officer, and president of the Texas
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