About Oakland Cemetery
Oakland Cemetery is a cemetery near Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. It lies about 1.7 mi south of Saint Paul. The grounds sit at about 883 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 104 notable people buried here, including Mary Colter, Alexander Ramsey and Henry Mower Rice. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 648868. The nearest other listed cemetery is Calvary Cemetery, about 1.8 mi to the west. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Bradshaw Funeral & Cremation Services & Celebration of Life in St Paul, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 23 cemeteries we list in Ramsey County, and 51 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Ramsey County dates to 1912. 5 of the 23 listings in Ramsey County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Saint Paul. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oakland Cemetery
Among them: 7 Civil War veterans, 7 US representatives, 5 governors, 5 writers, 4 journalists, 3 Medal of Honor recipients, 2 architects, 2 artists.
- Mary Colter1869-1958American architect and designer
- Alexander Ramsey1815-1903American politician
- Henry Mower Rice1816-1894American politician, Minnesota
- William D. Mitchell1874-1955American politician
- Henry Hastings Sibley1811-1891American politician and military leader
- Willis A. Gorman1816-1876American general, politician and lawyer
- Andrew Ryan McGill1840-1905American politician
- Christopher Columbus Andrews1829-1922Union Army General
- William H. Yale1831-1917American politician
- Edmund Rice1819-1889American politician
- Horace Austin1831-1905American politician
- William Rainey Marshall1825-1896American politician
Show all 104 notable burials
- William Whipple Warren1825-1853Historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory
- Andrew Kiefer1832-1904American politician
- Gideon S. Ives1846-1927American politician
- Andrew Myrick1832-1862American trader
- Charles Eugene Flandrau1828-1903American lawyer, Union Army officer
- Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.1859-1936American architect
- Edward D. Neill1823-1893American writer
- John T. Averill1825-1889American politician
- William Sitgreaves Cox1790-1874Court-martialed during the War of 1812
- Edith Ogden Heidel1870-1956Sculptor
- Edmund Brooke Alexander1802-1888American military officer
- Jacob H. Stewart1829-1884American politician
- John B. Sanborn1826-1904United States Army general during American Civil War
- Richard W. Johnson1827-1897Union Army General
- Alpheus Beede Stickney1840-1916American railroad executive
- Harriet Bishop1817-1883American educator, writer, suffragist, temperance activist
- James H. Simpson1813-1883American surveyor
- James M. Goodhue1810-1852American journalist
- Moses Sherburne1808-1868Jurist and politician from Maine and Minnesota
- Norman Kittson1814-1888American politician
- Robert Robitschek1874-1967German composer and conductor
- Tommy Carroll1900-1934American bank robber
- Walter Henry Sanborn1845-1928United States federal judge
- Elias Franklin Drake1813-1892American businessman and politician
- James Allen1843-1913Irish-born Union Army soldier
- John B. Sanborn Jr.1883-1964American politician, Minnesota
- John Quincy Adams1848-1922American editor, civil rights leader, and Republican party activist
- Marshall Sherman1823-1896American soldier
- Nellie A. Hope1864-1918American musicIan and orchestra conductor
- Oscar Hallam1865-1945American judge
- Rensselaer Nelson1826-1904United States federal judge
- Albert Scheffer1844-1905American politician, Minnesota -Senate 1887-90 (District 26)
- Alice Austin1862-1933American photographer
- Edwin A. Jaggard1859-1911American judge
- Emil D. Munch1831-1887American politician and businessman
- Henry W. Childs1848-1906Former Attorney General of Minnesota
- James L. Fisk1835-1902Union Army officer
- John Henry Hammond1833-1890Peerage person ID=468617
- John L. Merriam1825-1895American politician, Minnesota
- John M. Gilman1824-1906American politician
- John Willey Willis1854-1925American lawyer
- Joseph Burger1848-1921Medal of Honor recipient
- Jule Murat Hannaford1850-1934American railroad executive
- Olin B. Lewis1861-1936American lawyer and politician
- Robert A. Smith1827-1913American politician
- Robert Kennedy1801-1889Businessman and town president of Saint Paul, Minnesota
- William Pitt Murray1825-1910Minnesota politician
- Alice E. Andrews1869-1961American writer
- Alma Cecilia Haupt1893-19561893-1956 , public health nursing leader
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Anna Jenks1826-1884
- Anna Walter McMillan1856-1944
- Bruce Walter Sanborn1882-1977
- Caroline Drake Lightner1862-1945
- Caroline Eudora Gotzian1861-1959
- Charles Augustus Weyerhaeuser1866-1930Heir
- Charles Henry Bigelow1835-1911Saint Paul, MN businessman
- Chauncey Milton Griggs1913-1993
- Chauncey Milton Griggs1860-1931
- Chester Peter Siems1884-1918Millionaire
- Claude Harris Siems1886-1953
- Conradine Schurmeier1883-1927
- Constance Shepard1919-2013
- Daniel Whilldin Hand1834-1889
- David Chauncey Shepard1828-1920Millionaire
- Edith Pierpont Stickney1876-1951American historian
- Edwin Dean1804-1876American actor and manager
- Emma Bigelow1860-1940
- Eugene Virgil Smalley1841-1899American journalist
- Ferdinand Barta1857-1928American politician (1857-1928), Minnesota -House 1895-98 (District 26)
- Frances Ann Spencer1837-1903
- Frank Parsons Shepard1853-1912Heir
- Frederic Russell Bigelow1870-1946
- Harry Trevor Drake1857-1933
- Henry Hale1814-1890Millionaire
- Henry Johns1858-1902American politician (1858-1902), Minnesota -House 1895-98 (District 26)
- Howard Yolen Williams1889-1973
- Jeremiah W. Selby1812-1855American politician, Minnesota -- "J.W." Territorial House 1852 (District 2)
- Katharine M. Beals1851-1939American librarian
- Katherine Kohlsaat1889-1991
- Mary Chaffey Wells1863-1944
- Mary Elizabeth Fletcher1831-1924
- Milton Wright Griggs1888-1965Heir
- Nathaniel B. Hinckley1843-1936
- Nathaniel McLean1787-1871American politician
- Peter Siems1842-1917Millionaire
- Reece Marshall Newport1838-1912
- Roger Bulkley Shepard1885-1972Minnesota banker and businessman
- Ruth Cutler1890-1918Member of the Vassar Relief Unit, American Red Cross
- Samuel McMillan Shepard1883-1945
- Vallie Gotzian1873-1932Heiress
- William B. Dean1838-1922American businessman and politician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oakland Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Oakland Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Calvary Cemetery753 Front Avenue, Saint Paul, MNCatholic cemetery1.8 mi
- Elmhurst Cemetery1510 Dale Street North, Roseville, MNLutheran cemetery1.8 mi
- Sons of Moses CemeterySaint Paul, MNCemetery2.0 mi
- Temple of Aaron CemeteryRoseville, MNCemetery2.1 mi
- Mount Zion CemeterySaint Paul, MNCemetery2.1 mi
- Sons of Jacob CemeterySaint Paul, MNCemetery2.1 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial ParkLittle Canada, MNMemorial park2.3 mi
- Roselawn CemeteryRoseville, MNCemetery2.5 mi
- Garden of Eden CemeteryRoseville, MNMuslim cemetery2.6 mi
- Wic̣aḣapiSaint Paul, MNCemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Oakland Cemetery
- Bradshaw Funeral & Cremation Services & Celebration of Life0.4 miCremation provider · St Paul · (651) 489-1349
- Twin Cities Cremation1.2 miCremation provider · St Paul · (651) 212-4401
- Spielman Mortuary1.2 miMortuary · St Paul · (651) 237-4799
- Eternal Cremations1.4 miFuneral home · St Paul · (651) 237-8337
- Koob Moo Funeral Chapel1.7 miFuneral chapel · St Paul · (651) 793-4400
- Phalen Park Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Saint Paul · (651) 776-1589
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