About Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery is a municipal cemetery near Austin, Travis County, Texas. It lies about 1.2 mi southwest of Austin. It is operated by City of Austin Parks and Recreation. The grounds sit at about 564 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 73 notable people buried here, including Wilmer Allison, Ima Hogg and John Lomax. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1343037. The nearest other listed cemetery is Oakwood Annex Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Phillips-Upshaw & Richard Funeral Home in Austin, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 141 cemeteries we list in Travis County, and 59 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 58 of the 141 listings in Travis County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Austin. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oakwood Cemetery
Among them: 8 Civil War veterans, 6 governors, 6 writers, 4 artists, 4 business leaders, 4 US representatives, 2 architects, 2 Mexican-American War veterans.
- Wilmer Allison1904-1977US tennis player
- Ima Hogg1882-1975American philanthropist and arts patron
- John Lomax1867-1948American musicologist and folklorist
- James Stephen Hogg1851-190620th governor of Texas
- Oran Milo Roberts1815-1898American politician
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton1815-1875American politician
- Elisha M. Pease1812-1883American politician
- Morgan C. Hamilton1809-1893American politician
- Oscar Branch Colquitt1861-1940American politician
- Thomas Watt Gregory1861-1933American lawyer
- Albert Sidney Burleson1863-1937American politician
- Elliott Woolfolk Major1864-1949American politician
Show all 73 notable burials
- John Hancock1824-1893American judge and politician from Texas
- John Crittenden Duval1816-1897American writer
- Rudolph Kleberg1847-1924American politician
- Ben Thompson1843-1884American gunman, gambler, and lawman
- Wayman Elbridge Adams1883-1959American painter
- Annie Webb Blanton1870-1945American suffragist, educator
- Edwin Whitfield Fay1865-1920American philologist
- John Henry Faulk1913-1990American folklorist, storyteller, and radio host from Texas
- Thomas Green1814-1864Lawyer, politician, soldier, and officer of the Republic of Texas
- Abner Cook1814-1884American architect
- Alexander Penn Wooldridge1847-1930American politician
- Charles Henry Page1876-1957Texas architect
- Felix Huston Robertson1839-1928Confederate Army general
- Prince Oana1908-1976American baseball player
- Richard Bache1784-1848American politician
- Susanna Dickinson1814-1883Alamo survivor
- Charles S. West1829-1885American politician and judge
- Ezekiel B. Turner1825-1888United States federal judge
- Florence Anderson Clark1835-1918American author, newspaper editor, librarian, university dean
- Hermann Lungkwitz1813-1891Texas pioneer, landscape artist, photographer
- Jane Y. McCallum1877-1957American politician and author
- John Barclay Armstrong1850-1913Texas ranger;
- William James Oliphant1845-1930American photographer
- William M. Walton1832-1915American politician
- William Steele1819-1885Confederate Army general
- Florence Duval West1840-1881American poet
- George Washington Glasscock1810-1868American politician
- Jacob Bickler1849-1902Scholar, educator
- Jacob Kuechler1823-1893Commissioner Texas General Land Office, surveyor, Civil War Conscientious objector
- Nannie Zenobia Carver Huddle1860-1951American painter
- Thomas Howard DuVal1813-1880United States federal judge
- Alice Littlefield1846-1935Wife of Texas businessman and philanthropist George W. Littlefield
- Fania Feldman Kruger1893-1977American writer
- Henry Berryman Terrell1869-1921
- James H. Bell1825-1892American judge
- James T. Robison1861-19291861-1929, 17th Texas Land Commissioner
- John Garland James1844-19302nd President of Texas A&M
- John J. Terrell1857-19201857-1920, 16th Texas Land Commissioner
- John Marks Moore1853-1902American politician
- L. C. Anderson1853-1938Methodist minister
- Leslie Waggener1841-1896American academic
- Louisa Pool Belcher1849-1931Wife of Wesley Madison Shuford
- Marmion Henry Bowers1829-1872American lawyer, state legislator
- Robert E. Grant1825-1888American politician
- Stephen Crosby1808-1869American politician, Texas
- Thomas F. McKinney1801-1873American politician
- William A. Saylor1843-1887American politician, lawyer, businessman
- William Clifford Hogg1875-1930American attorney and developer
- William Patrick Mabson1846-1916African American 19th-century state legislator
- Daniel A. Penick1869-1964American classical philologist
- George R. Freeman1830-1910Confederate States military officer
- James Gibson Swisher1794-1862American soldier and Texas patriot
- John J. Tobin1838-1904American doctor, businessperson, and postcard publisher
- John Preston White1832-1905Confederate soldier and Texas jurist
- John Wesley Carhart1834-1914American minister, physician, inventor, and writer
- Lizzie E. Johnson Williams1840-1924American schoolteacher and cattle dealer
- Marcia Pope DuVal Paschal1819-1865
- Maria W. Simms1819-1870
- Sallie Hogg1854-1895Wife of James Stephen Hogg
- Susan Spyker1822-1893
- William Barto Wortham1853-1925State treasurer of Texas
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
- Oakwood Annex CemeteryAustin, TXMunicipal cemetery0.2 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery0.6 mi
- Texas State CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery0.7 mi
- Evergreen CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery1.6 mi
- Plummers CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.3 mi
- Bethany CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.4 mi
- Austin State School CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.7 mi
- Austin State Hospital CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.8 mi
- Travis County International Cemetery3604 Axel Lane, Austin, TXCemetery3.0 mi
- San Jose CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery3.3 mi
Funeral homes near Oakwood Cemetery
- Phillips-Upshaw & Richard Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 472-1934
- King-Tears Mortuary0.3 miMortuary · Austin · (512) 476-9128
- Fuller-Sheffield Funeral Services0.9 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 476-9164
- A Simple Tradition Funeral Services1.3 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 477-7495
- Mission Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 476-4355
- aCremation1.4 miCremation provider · Austin · (512) 428-8233
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