Oak Grove Cemetery (Waukesha County, Wisconsin)

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The Oak Grove Cemetery (also known as Presbyterian Cemetery and Potter's Field ) is a cemetery in Waukesha County in the US state of Wisconsin . It is located on Wisconsin Highway 67 and borders the Eagle Oak Opening State Natural Area .

The cemetery dates from 1844. Among other things, you can find tombstones of fallen soldiers from the Civil War . These include the inscriptions by Philip Bovee , John Adam Draper , Merrit Draper , William Harrison , Henry James , George M. Logan and Joseph B. Titus . Wisconsin's first veterinarian , Dr. Peter Grems is also buried here.

An extension of the burial place was not possible because the area was surrounded by the Kettle Moraine Forest . The last burial in this cemetery took place in 1967. He is from the town of Eagle , Wisconsin entertain .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oak Grove Cemetery, Eagle Township Waukesha County, Wisconsin - Waukesha County Wisconsin GenWeb
  2. ↑ Oak Grove Cemetery (Waukesha County, Wisconsin) in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey

Coordinates: 42 ° 51 '53.6 "  N , 88 ° 29' 15.8"  W.