Wilonsky: Finally, restoring the names to the forgotten dead in a Dallas paupers’ cemetery

Daniel Babb has spent a decade among the 2,080 men, women and children buried behind a warehouse.

by Robert Wilonsky, Editorial columnist, Dallas Morning News, Oct 8, 2025
Source: Wilonsky: Finally, restoring the names to the forgotten dead in a Dallas paupers’ cemetery

Daniel Babb leans over one of the few surviving markers at the Dallas City Cemetery. We could not make out the name stamped into the tin, which had been erased by time, weather and, li…