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Burials at Riverside Cemetery (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) (21 P) Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Green Bay, Wisconsin) (14 P) M. Burial monuments and structures in Wisconsin ...
The memorial was signed into law in 1996 by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. [2] It is funded completely by tax deductible donations and no tax money was used for its construction. [3] On October 3, 2003, the Wisconsin Legislature designated the week in which October 8 falls as Fire Prevention week. [4]
Forest Home Cemetery is home to 28 Milwaukee mayors, seven Wisconsin governors, noted industrialists and over 110,000 burials. [8] The Newhall House Monument is a mass grave for 64 people of the Newhall House fire of 1883, in which 71 individuals (43 unidentified) died. George A. Abert, member of the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State ...
The cemetery is the burial location of the charred remains of victims of the Peshtigo Fire, of October 8, 1871, the deadliest natural fire in the history of the United States. [2] Identified victims were buried in traditional marked graves, and over 300 unidentified victims were buried in a mass grave.
The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Riverside Cemetery (Withee, Wisconsin) W. Wood National Cemetery; Woodlawn Cemetery (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
Mound Cemetery is a 55-acre burial site located in Racine, Wisconsin. Established in 1852, it was previously the site of approximately 138 prehistoric effigies and burial mounds . Mound Cemetery now contains over 2,600 burials, including many of the most prominent citizens from the history of Racine.
Byron Paine (1827–1871), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as a lawyer he successfully argued the 1866 case of Gillespie v. Palmer which established voting rights in Wisconsin for African Americans; Silas U. Pinney (1833–1899), mayor of Madison, 1874–76, justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1892–98 [19]