Our History of Restlawn Memorial Park

We are creating for the people of Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County, a beautiful garden spot to brighten life’s darkest hour. 

As it is developed according to our plans, you will find within its boundaries, against a background of cultivated natural beauty and in a gracious woodland setting, a series of exquisite gardens. Each will have a theme and a character of its own that captures a mood of peace and reassurance, comforting to the bereaved and a delicate expression of love and devotion… and invironment that conveys an atmosphere of serene eternal joy rather than the traditional one of gloom and loss… creating a setting appropriate for quiet meditation and eternal remembrance. 

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RESTLAWN MEMORIAL PARK INC. 

Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery was established on record in 1953 with the first interment taking place on April 18, 1953. The cemetery covers a total of 17.5 Acres and is located 5 miles south of Sulphur Springs, Texas. The Gardens of Peace, Prayer, and The Estates (A, B, C, and D, respectively) were platted and recorded in 1955. The garden of Love (I& J) was added in 1958. Section E, the garden of Faith was recorded in 1973. Garden of Crypts (double Depths, section K) was added in 1995 and the most recent additions were added in 2008 with section L,M,N, know as the Garden of Serenity. The Cemetery changed to legal and official perpetual status in 2002.

**Parker, C. (1953, April 3). Announcing Restlawn Memorial Park The Modern Cemetery. Hopkins County Echo, 78(1), 11. https://doi.org/https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826806/m1/11/