Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York

This project is for those buried in Oakwood Cemetery located in Syracuse, New York.

The cemetery is also known as Morningside Cemetery.

From Wikipedia:

Oakwood Cemetery is a 160-acre historic cemetery located in Syracuse, New York. It was designed by Howard Daniels and built in 1859. Oakwood Cemetery was created during a time period in the nineteenth century when the rural cemetery was becoming a distinct landscape type, and is a good example of this kind of landscape architecture.

The original 92 acres included about 60 acres of dense oak forest with pine, ash, hickory and maple. A crew of 60 laborers without large-scale earth moving equipment thinned and grouped the trees; today there are many 150-year-old specimens. Students of SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University, whose campuses are adjacent to Oakwood, can regularly be seen in the cemetery for instruction on plant species, capturing insect specimens, cemetery studies, or mammal surveys.

Notable Burials

• Mary Raymond Andrews (Shipman) (1860-1936) - Author
• Bvt. Brig. Gen. Matthew Henry Avery (1836-1881) - Union
• Brig. Gen. Henry Alanson Barnum (183301892) - Union
• Peter Baumgras (1827-1904) - Artist
• James Jerome Belden (1825-1904) - US Congressman
• David Smith Bennett (1811-1894) - US Congressman
• Carlyle Blackwell (1884-1955) - Actor & Director
• Clay Stone Briggs (1876-1933) - US Congressman
• Sgt. William Henry Harrison Crosier (1844-1903) - Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Thomas Treadwell Davis (1810-1872) - US Congressman
• Michael Edward Driscoll (1851-1929) - US Congressman
• Lt. Col. Augustus Wade Dwight (1827-1865) - Union
• Nehemiah Hezekiah Earll (1787-1872) - US Congressman
• Herbert H. Franklin (1866-1956) - Inventor, Businessman & Automotive Pioneer
• Frank Gabrielson (1910-1980) - Film & Television Writer
• James Geddes (1763-1838) - US Congress
• Amos Phelps Granger (1789-1866) - US Congress
• Forbes Heermans (1856-1928) - Author
• Frank Hiscock (1834-1914) - US Congress & Senator
• William Jervis Hough (1795-1869) - US Congress
• Henry Wadsworth Hudson (1816-1888) - Civil War Union Army Officer
• John Snyders Kenyon (1843-1902) - Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• William Kirkpatrick (1769-1832) - US Congress
• Karl Kritz (1906-1969) - Musical Conductor
• Addison Henry Laflin (1823-1878) - US Congress
• Elias Warner Leavenworth (1803-1887) - US Congress
• Harold McGrath (1871-1932) - Author & Screenwriter
• Richard Frederick "Dick" MacPherson (1930-2017) - College & Pro Football Coach
• Maj. Gen. John James Peck (1821-1878) - Union
• Theodore Lewis Poole (1840-1900) - US Congress
• Augustus Israel Root (1833-1865) - Civil War Union Army Officer
• Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (1815-1883) - US Congress
• Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850-1910) - Inventor & Businessman
• Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) - Furniture Maker & Magazine Publisher
• Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose "Bull" Sumner, Sr. (1797-1863) - Union
• William Gardner Tracy (1842-1924) - Civil War Congressional Medal Recipient
• Horace White (1865-1943) - Governor of New York

Links

Official Website

Find a Grave