Thursday, October 23, 2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Sandusky County, Fremont, Ohio

 


Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio

Courtesy Find a Grave


Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1858 when James Vallette from Ballville Township sold twenty-six acres of beautiful oak woods to the newly formed cemetery association.  The location met the needs of the growing city of Fremont, Ohio and its surrounding area. Oakwood Cemetery was located two miles from the center of Fremont on the road to Tiffin along the Sandusky River.  The first recorded burial at the cemetery was Benjamin Munson on October 6, 1860.  Since that date more than 25,000 burials have been recorded. The cemetery has expanded as needed over the years.  Records can be viewed at the Hayes Presidential Library and Museums.

Oakwood Cemetery,  GAR Circle

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The Hayes Circle is located at the main entrance of the cemetery where sons and one daughter of President Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes are buried.  Webb Cook, and his wife,  Mary Miller Hayes are buried at Spiegel Grove near the burial site of the President and First Lady who were reinterred in 1915 by second son Webb Cook Hayes.



Oakwood Cemetery,  1915

For the complete story of the removal of the bodies of President Rutherford Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes, please read the earlier Ohio's Yesterdays blog post (January 1918) by Meghan Wonderly-Kolbe, Annual Giving and Membership Coordinator at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums.