Oakwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in

Fremont, Ohio Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States, located along the banks of the Sandusky River. It is about 35 miles from Toledo and 25 miles from Sandusky. It is part of the Toledo metropolitan area. The populat ...

, United States.

Notable interments

United States President

Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes (; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor ...

(1822–1893) was buried here in 1893, and his body was moved to his former home,

Spiegel Grove Spiegel Grove, also known as Spiegel Grove State Park, Rutherford B. Hayes House, Rutherford B. Hayes Summer Home and Rutherford B. Hayes State Memorial was the estate of Rutherford B. Hayes, the nineteenth President of the United States, locate ...

, in 1915 for burial with his wife Lucy Ware Hayes (1831–1889).

Cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenot ...

s are maintained for them at Oakwood. Other notable interments include: * Carl C. Anderson (1877–1912) US Congreeman * William Francis Bailey (1842–1915) Wisconsin judge * John S. Bell (1796–1869) US Congressman *

Ralph Pomeroy Buckland Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (January 20, 1812 – May 27, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad following the war ...

(1812–1892) Civil War Union Brigadier General and US Congressman * Rodolphus Dickinson (1797–1849) US Congressman ** Edward F. Dickinson (1829–1891) his son, US Congressman * William Elisha Haynes (1829–1914) US Congressman * Amos Henry Jackson (1846–1924) US Congressman * John Birchard Rice (1832–1893) US Congressman

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* * {{coord, 41, 19, 47, N, 83, 08, 19, W, region:US-OH_type:landmark_source:GNIS, display=title Cemeteries in Sandusky County, Ohio Fremont, Ohio Geography of Sandusky County, Ohio