Stinson Municipal Airport Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas

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Coordinates: 29.33692, -98.47826
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This is an inactive cemetery on airport property. Permission and escort are required to get to this cemetery. Airport management office is on the second floor of the terminal building on Mission Rd. Burials appear to have occured here from about 1920 to about 1940. This is same time period during which the Airport was first used as a Municipal Airport by the city. The nearby city-operated San Jose Burial Park was also established in the early 1920's and this cemetery area may have originally been considered part of that cemetery. The military took over the airport in the early 1940's and then returned it to the city after WW II. The cemetery became "lost" during that time period. Two areas have now been "found". "Area A" is along the south side of the runway at the west end. It consists of a group of closely spaced metal markers and a larger field of widely spaced remnants of stone markers. "Area B" is another group of closely spaced metal markers further west on the other side of an area of dense brush. The paper inserts for the metal markers are long gone. The areas of closely spaced metal markers are consistent with pauper burials and may include the missing transfers from former City Cemetery #7 that reportedly went to the San Jose Burial Park, but which that cemetery has no record of.