About Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. It lies about 0.8 mi north of Delaware. The grounds sit at about 906 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 19 notable people buried here, including Frank B. Willis, Mary Katherine Campbell and James Randolph Hubbell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1044026. The nearest other listed cemetery is Wesoller Cemetery, about 2.6 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Devore-snyder Funeral Home in Delaware, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 68 cemeteries we list in Delaware County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Delaware. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oak Grove Cemetery
Among them: 6 US representatives, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 US senator, 1 writer.
- Frank B. Willis1871-1928American politician
- Mary Katherine Campbell1905-1990American beauty pageant contestant
- James Randolph Hubbell1824-1890American politician
- John S. Jones1836-1903Union Army officer
- Archibald Lybrand1840-1910Union United States Army officer
- Edward Thomson1810-1870American bishop
- Charles Sweetser1808-1864American politician
- Earley F. Poppleton1834-1899American politician
- James Whitford Bashford1848-1919American bishop
- William Fraser McDowell1858-1937American bishop
- William J. Brown1940-1999American politician, Ohio
- Francis Enmer Kearns1905-1992American bishop
Show all 19 notable burials
- Jacob Swegheimer1843-1917
- Sophia Birchard1792-1866Mother of U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes
- Almira Dustin Willis1873-1956
- David Bevan1829-1913Welsh-born American farmer
- James Robert Lytle1841-1924American lawyer
- Samuel Ashton Keen1842-1895Methodist Episcopal minister and writer 1842-1895
- Trumbull Gillette Duvall1861-1951American philosophy professor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oak Grove 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 Oak Grove 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
- Wesoller CemeteryDelaware, OHCemetery2.6 mi
- South Radnor CemeteryDelaware, OHCemetery3.7 mi
- Pleasant Hill CemeteryDelaware, OHCemetery4.0 mi
- Cole CemeteryLewis Center, OHCemetery4.3 mi
- Fairview Memorial ParkLewis Center, OHMemorial park4.7 mi
- New Cheshire CemeteryLewis Center, OHCemetery5.0 mi
- Oller CemeteryDelaware, OHCemetery5.3 mi
- Troy Chapel CemeteryDelaware, OHChurch cemetery5.4 mi
- McNamara CemeteryLewis Center, OHCemetery5.8 mi
- Peachblow CemeteryLewis Center, OHCemetery5.9 mi
Funeral homes near Oak Grove Cemetery
- Devore-snyder Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Delaware · (740) 369-7215
- Robinson Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Delaware · (740) 369-6751
- Snyder Rodman Funeral Center2.0 miFuneral home · Delaware · (740) 362-1611
- Rutherford Funeral Homes & Crematories8.9 miCremation provider · Powell · (614) 792-1471
- Newcomer Cremations, Funerals & Receptions9.3 miFuneral home · Powell · (614) 964-0404
- Snyder Funeral Homes, DeVore Chapel11 miFuneral home · Sunbury · (740) 965-3936
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