About Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Waco, McLennan County, Texas. It lies about 2.5 mi northwest of Waco. Wikidata records 34 notable people buried here, including Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Richard Coke and Pat Morris Neff. The nearest other listed cemetery is Restland Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Pecan Grove Funeral Home in Waco, about 2.1 mi away. It is one of 100 cemeteries we list in McLennan County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 12 of the 100 listings in McLennan County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Waco. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oakwood Cemetery
Among them: 5 Civil War veterans, 3 governors, 2 football players, 2 physicians, 2 World War I veterans, 2 writers, 1 baseball player, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross1838-1898Governor of Texas, Confederate States of America general, Texas A&M University president
- Richard Coke1829-1897American politician
- Pat Morris Neff1871-1952American politician
- Jerome B. Robertson1815-1890Confederate Army general
- William Cowper Brann1855-1898American journalist
- William Robert Poage1899-1987Texas politician
- Charles Courtice Alderton1857-1941American pharmacist; inventor of Dr Pepper
- Ellsworth Faris1874-1953American sociologist
- Sid Hudson1915-2008American baseball player and coach
- Thomas Hanna1928-1990Philosopher and movement theorist
- Charles Albert Boynton1867-1954United States federal judge
- George Bernard Erath1813-1891Member of both the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate
Show all 34 notable burials
- George Andrie1940-2018American football player
- Thomas Harrison1823-1891Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War
- Joab H. Banton1869-1949American lawyer
- John Calvin Stephenson1823-1909American undertaker
- Neil Edmond1891-1981American football player
- Paul Tyson1886-1950American football player and coach
- Rufus Columbus Burleson1823-1901American academic administrator
- Carl Lovelace1876-1944(1876-1944) American physician
- Decca Lamar West1866-1942American writer
- George Washington Clark1841-1918American politician, Texas
- Herbert H. Reynolds1930-2007American academic
- Katharine McCall1851-1931Peerage person ID=332513
- Samuel Palmer Brooks1863-1931American educator (1863-1931); president of Baylor University from 1902 to 1931
- Christopher LaFayette York1907-1994American botanical collector
- Herschel Frank Connally1912-1988American physician
- James B. Baker1847-1918Texas businessman; mayor of Waco
- John Dwight Hanna Jr.1922-1943
- John Grover Harvey, II1934-2007Ph.D. Tulane University 1961
- Robert E. Franzl1921-2002Biochemist
- Shapley Prince Ross1811-1889
- Victor C. Jeffress1917-2010American librarian
- William Waldo Cameron1878-1939Heir
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
31.53471, -97.10825
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
- Restland CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery0.2 mi
- Rosemound CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery0.6 mi
- Rosemound CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery0.7 mi
- Jacob-Sholom CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery0.8 mi
- Hebrew Rest CemeteryWaco, TXJewish cemetery1.5 mi
- First Street CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery1.5 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryBellmead, TXCemetery2.6 mi
- Chappel Hill CemeteryWaco, TXCemetery2.9 mi
- Kellum Family CemeteryWaco, TXFamily cemetery3.7 mi
- Robinson CemeteryRobinson, TXCemetery4.2 mi
Funeral homes near Oakwood Cemetery
- Pecan Grove Funeral Home2.1 miFuneral home · Waco · (254) 662-2131
- W. H. Littles and Sons Mortuaries2.8 miMortuary · Waco · (800) 224-5517
- McDowell Funeral Homes2.8 miFuneral home · Waco · (254) 754-3151
- East Waco Mortuary3.0 miMortuary · Waco · (254) 799-6279
- Bellmead Funeral Home3.8 miFuneral home · Waco · (254) 799-5701
- Connally/Compton Funeral Directors3.8 miFuneral home · Waco · (254) 772-7440
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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