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Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 22-acre (8.9 ha) cemetery located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1848 and completed in 1853, and is a prime example of a rural cemetery .
When the city sold the cemetery to A.J. Hocking in 1933, its name was changed for the final time to Oak Hill Memorial Park. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The Hocking family's tenure of ownership of the cemetery was marked by the construction of new mausoleums, notably the Azalea and Parkview Terraces, as well as the construction of the Fountain of the Apostles ...
Oak Hill Cemetery, located just north of downtown, is Birmingham, Alabama's oldest cemetery.Originally 21.5 acres (87,000 m 2) on the estate of James M. Ware, it was already a burial ground by April 1869 when it served as the resting place for the infant daughter of future mayor Robert H. Henley.
Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), United States Navy rear admiral (exhumed in 1896 and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia) Thomas Sewall (1786–1845), American physician known for getting convicted for body snatching [ 143 ]
Oak Hill Cemetery is located on Route 81 in Durham, Greene County, New York. This 5.6-acre cemetery originated as the burial place of early settlers Lucas and Deborah DeWitt on their family farm in the early 1820s, and evolved into a community cemetery for local residents. [1] Oak Hill Cemetery
Pages in category "Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first interment in Oak Hill Cemetery was Maria (Ross) Coulter, [4] sister of Lewistown's founder, Ossian Ross. However, the dates of her death and interment are unknown. The earliest date of death on a headstone in Oak Hill Cemetery is 1829, but it is unclear whether that date refers to a new burial or to a body being reinterred from the ...
It was the site of the dedication of the adjacent National Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address from a platform in Evergreen Cemetery. [7] [8] Greendale Cemetery: 1853: Meadville, Pennsylvania: Mount Adnah Cemetery: 1853: Fulton, New York: Oak Hill Cemetery: 1853: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Oak Woods Cemetery: 1853: Chicago, Illinois