Notable burials at Glenwood include former residents of the Republic of Texas, some who were re-interred from condemned cemeteries from downtown Houston.

Charlotte Allen and William Robinson Baker were early arrivals to Houston, and also long time residents.

Glenwood Cemetery developed on two tracts of land on the north side of Buffalo Bayou, and west of Downtown Houston.

Part of this land conveyed from the country estate of Archibald Wynns, a Houston lawyer and Congressman for the Republic of Texas.

A mule-drawn street railway operated on Washington Road, conveying people to Glenwood for weekend and holiday visits.

A group led by W. D. Cleveland criticized the conditions of lots and roads in 1896 and asked for a receivership to manage Glenwood.

The same year Glenwood acquired the adjacent Washington Cemetery, expanding its land area by 118 acres (48 ha).

[6] Keith Rosen, a Houston area history professor quoted in the San Antonio Express-News, said that the cemetery is the "River Oaks of the dead.

[8] Glenwood Cemetery is located on the northern bank of Buffalo Bayou, and bounded by Washington Avenue to the north.

Parts of the property afford views of the downtown Houston skyline, of Memorial Drive, and of Allen Parkway.

The grave sites of those individuals have been designated with metal markers and are frequently decorated with the flag of the Republic and State of Texas.

[12][13] Charlotte's brother, Horace Baldwin, was a mayor during the Republic;[14] and her daughter, Eliza Allen Converse, was touted as "the first child born in Houston.

[19] His wife, Mary Smith Jones, the first lady of the Republic of Texas, died on December 31, 1907, and is buried at Glenwood Cemetery.

Roy Hofheinz, Harris County Judge, Mayor of Houston, and developer of the Astrodome,[25] is interred at Glenwood.

[30] Another Texas governor at Glenwood, Ross S. Sterling (1931–1933), was co-founder of Humble Oil Company,[31] along with William Stamps Farish II[32] and Harry C. Wiess.

A Texaco founder Joseph S. Cullinan[33] resides there, as with independent oil producer and philanthropist, George H. Hermann, Houston business leader, and "King of the Wildcatters," Glenn McCarthy.

[34][35] Walter Benona Sharp, whose innovations in mud drilling led to development of the Spindletop field,[36] has a family plot at Glenwood.