Preservation and Other Accounts

  1. "Revere the Dead"
    Nueces Valley (October 24, 1857)
  2. News article, 1860
  3. "The Graveyard"
    Ranchero (April 14, 1860)
  4. News item, 1874
  5. "Communicated: Our Cemetery Again!!"
    Nueces Valley (April 25, 1874)
  6. "Despoiling Graves"
    C. C. Daily Gazette (April 22, 1876)
  7. "A Public Disgrace," 1881
  8. Letter to the Editor, 1881
  9. Plea to Mayor and Aldermen, ca. 1882
  10. News item, 1886
  11. A theft, 1892
  12. "For the Honored Dead, the Tombstones for the U.S. soldiers Graves Have Arrived," 1893
  13. “Let Something Be Done†1896
  14. "Meeting of Bayview Cemetery Association," 1898
  15. News item, 1898
  16. News item, 1898
  17. News item, 1899
  18. News items, 1899-1901
  19. News item, 1903
  20. News item, 1904
  21. R. Joseph ad for cemetery monuments and fences, 1905
  22. “Old Burial Park Within the City to be Improved†  
    Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald, June 30, 1915, page 3, col. 5
  23. 1924 series by Eli T. Merriman
    A.  "Shadows of Historic Pioneer Days in Corpus Christi Hover About Old Bayview Cemetery."
    B.  "First Mayor of Corpus Christi and First Sheriff of County Rest in Old Bayview Cemetery."
    C.  "Two of Seven Mayors Who Sleep in Bayview Cemetery Worked With Undying Courage to Make Port Here."
    D. "Merriman Addresses Plea for Preservation of Burying Plot Where Rest City's Honored Dead."     
  24. "Pioneer Heroes of Corpus Christi are Buried in Old Military Cemetery." by Edna May Tubbs and Vivian Louis Johnson, 1931.
  25. Letter to the Editor, by Eli T. Merriman, 1933
  26. "Movement Started to Make This a National Shrine," 1940
  27. News article, 1941
  28. News article, 1940s
  29. News article, 1940s
  30. News article, 1940s
  31. News article, 1940s
  32. News item, 1942
  33. News item, 1942
  34. Letter to the Editor and photograph, 194233.  Letter to the Editor, 1953
  35. "Bayview Mesquite Tree Unlikely to Fade Away"
    Corpus Christi Times (February 26, 1987)
  36. "A new face for Old Bayview Cemetery," by Sylvia R. Longoria   Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (March 1, 2001) (available on microfilm in the local history department, La Retama Library)
  37. "Preserving our past: restoration work at Old Bayview Cemetery needs the communities help," by Elmon R. Phillips   Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (September 9, 2001) (available on microfilm in the local history department, La Retama Library)
  38. "Old Bayview must be preserved and restored."  Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (September 9, 2001) (available on microfilm in the local history department, La Retama Library)
  39. "Buried history"  Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (February 19, 2002) (available on microfilm in the local history department, La Retama Library)
  40. "Dayton veteran's forgotten sacrifice finally is honored"  Corpus Christi Caller-Times  (September 15, 2002) (available on microfilm in the local history department, La Retama Library)
  41. Old Bayview - Not Just Another Cemetery, Remarks by Monsignor Michael Howell July 28, 2002