
This is a very old established cemetery. It has a lot of old stones, but it's expanded a lot in the last few years. It takes up about one city block. It's on Highway 116, about 1 and a half miles outside of Omro, in Winnebago County.
The first section of the 20 acre Omro cemetery was donated by Milo Bushnell in 1846. In 1851, the Omro Cemetery Association was formed and this group superintended the growth of the cemetery in the years that followed. In the early 1880s, an effort to transfer the remains of Civil War veterans and their wives from other parts of the Town of Omro to this cemetery was begun. The more than 250 known veterans of this great conflict now buried here constitute one of the largest, if not the largest, concentration of Civil War dead in Wisconsin.
The exceptionally well maintained and documented burial group visible today is a testament to the unstinting care that the Cemetery Association provided. In 1990, the Association requested that the City of Omro take over the now considerable task of maintaining the cemetery, which today has more than 9,500 grave sites. (Marker Number 50.)