About Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Cohoes, Rensselaer County, New York. It lies about 1.8 mi northwest of Cohoes. The grounds sit at about 292 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 97 notable people buried here, including Emma Willard, George Henry Thomas and Amos Eaton. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 959193. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Peters Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Simmons Funeral Home, LLC in Troy, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 61 cemeteries we list in Rensselaer County, and 71 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cohoes. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oakwood Cemetery
Among them: 15 US representatives, 8 Civil War veterans, 5 baseball players, 5 scientists, 4 artists, 4 business leaders, 4 inventors and engineers, 4 writers.
- Emma Willard1787-1870American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
- George Henry Thomas1816-1870United States Army general
- Amos Eaton1776-1842American botanist
- Samuel Wilson1766-1854American meat packer
- Russell Sage1816-1906American financier and congressman for New York
- John E. Wool1784-1869Union United States Army general
- Joseph Bradford Carr1828-1895Union Army general
- Joseph M. Warren1813-1896American politician
- Walter I. McCoy1859-1933American politician
- William Henry Draper1841-1921American politician
- Bill Craver1844-1901Major League Baseball player, manager
- Billy Harrell1928-2014American baseball player
Show all 97 notable burials
- David Hillhouse Buel1862-1923American Catholic priest and Episcopal minister
- Dean Park Taylor1902-1977American politician
- George L. Willard1827-1863United States Army officer
- Job Pierson1791-1860American politician
- John Dean Dickinson1767-1841American politician
- John Wright1811-1846American physician and botanist
- Martin I. Townsend1810-1903American politician
- E. Harold Cluett1874-1954American politician
- Edward W. Pattison1932-1990American politician
- George Tibbits1763-1849American politician
- John Augustus Griswold1822-1872American politician
- John M. Francis1823-1897American diplomat and journalist
- John R. Thurman1814-1854U.S. Representative from New York.
- Robert W. Hunt1838-1923American metallurgical engineer
- William McManus1780-1835American politician
- Zephine Humphrey1874-1956American writer
- Charles E. Patterson1842-1913American politician
- Charles Spencer Francis1853-1911American diplomat and newspaper editor
- Cicero Price1805-1888United States Navy admiral
- Francis S. Thayer1822-1880American politician
- Garnet Baltimore1859-1946American landscape architect
- George G. Rockwood1832-1911American photographer
- Henry Bradford Nason1835-1895American chemist
- Henry Vail1782-1853American politician
- Lloyd Warren1868-1922American architect
- Marshall King1849-1911Major League Baseball player
- Reed Brockway Bontecou1824-1907American surgeon and photographer
- Rip Coleman1931-2004American baseball player
- Steve King1842-1895Major League Baseball left fielder
- Eliza Kellas1864-1943US teacher
- Fitzedward Hall1825-1901American indologist
- Florence Adele Vanderbilt Sloane1873-1960
- James A. Burden II1871-1932American industrialist (1871-1932); son-in-law of William Sloane
- James A. Burden III1897-1979American businessman
- Jonathan Edwards1841-1886
- Ogden J. Ross1893-1968American politician, U.S. Army general
- Sidney Powers1890-1932American petroleum geologist
- William H. Freeman1844-1911Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Albert L. Myer1846-1914American mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1899
- Alonzo Alden1834-1900
- Donald S. Taylor1898-1970USA judge
- Franklin Fyles1847-1911American drama critic and playwright
- George Colfax Baldwin1817-1899American clergyman 1817-1899
- George Thatcher Balch1828-1894Union Army officer
- Grace Ellingwood Rich1872-1959American author, illustrator, and teacher
- Harriet E. Francis1828-1889Wife of John M. Francis
- James Henry Caldwell1865-1931American banker and businessman
- John A. Sleicher1848-1921
- John Augustus Griswold Jr.1912-1991Ornithologist
- John H. Peck1838-1919American academic
- John P. Taylor1874-1934American judge
- Le Grand B. Cannon1815-1906American banker and Civil War officer
- Oliver Prince Buel1838-1899American lawyer
- Phil Draper1875-1945American football player
- Phineas D. Ballou1823-1877American businessman and mayor
- Roxana Atwater Wentworth1854-1935
- Samuel Blatchford1767-1828American academic administrator
- Abbie Findlay Potts1884-1964American literary scholar
- Daniel D. Tompkins1798-1863United States Military Academy graduate, class of 1820
- Elizabeth Homer Paine1828-19101828 - 1910
- G. Saxton Thompson1883-1963
- Gouverneur Ogden1778-1851Lawyer
- Henry Wise Hobson1858-18989 Jul 1858 - 13 Aug 1898
- Howard Price Renshaw1886-1920American socialite
- James Abercrombie Burden1833-1906American industrialist
- Jennie Bellows Millard1816-1853American painter
- John Wool Griswold1850-1902
- Julia Dickinson Tayloe1799-1846
- LeGrand Cannon1787-185020 Mar 1787 Norwalk, Connecticut - 7 May 1850 Troy, New York
- Maria Van Schaick Peebles1782-1865
- Mary Langford Taylor Alden1846-1923Author
- Mary S. “Peggy” Hayford Taylor1901-1992US health and local history advocate
- Nathan Bouton Warren1811-1898Millionaire heir
- Natica Rives1883-1908American socialite
- Rice C. Bull1842-1930
- Sarah Noyes Tibbits Griswold1847-1883
- Sarah Perry Randall Griswold1856-1934
- Stella Cominsky Ballantine1886-1961Activist
- Stephen Warren1783-1847
- Thomas S Twiss1803-1871Twiss, Thomas S; class of 1826
- Thomas Windeatt Blatchford1794-1866American physician
- William Augustus Beach1809-1884Lawyer
- William Powers1790-1829Millionaire manufacturer and banker of Lansingburgh and Troy, NY
- William Proudfit Burden1876-194314 Jan 1876 - 26 Jul 1943
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oakwood 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 Oakwood 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
- Saint Peters CemeteryGreen Island, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Lansingburgh Village Burial GroundCohoes, NYCemetery0.6 mi
- Old Catholic Burial GroundCohoes, NYCatholic cemetery0.6 mi
- Van Schaick CemeteryCohoes, NYCemetery1.0 mi
- Saint John CemeteryWaterford, NYCemetery1.4 mi
- Calvary CemeteryCohoes, NYCemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic CemeteryGreen Island, NYCatholic cemetery2.4 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryTroy, NYCemetery2.5 mi
- Maplewood CemeteryWatervliet, NYCemetery2.5 mi
- Saint Basils Russian Orthodox CemeteryWatervliet, NYOrthodox cemetery2.5 mi
Funeral homes near Oakwood Cemetery
- Grethen-Cahrenger Memorials0.7 miMonument dealer · Troy · (518) 235-3312
- Simmons Funeral Home, LLC0.7 miFuneral home · Troy · (518) 729-0111
- Riverview Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Troy · (518) 235-5610
- Simple Choices Cremation Service0.7 miCremation provider · Troy · (518) 435-8030
- McLoughlin & Mason Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Troy · (518) 235-1722
- John J. Sanvidge Funeral Home, Inc.0.9 miFuneral home · Troy · (518) 235-0952
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