Woodlawn Cemetery (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Woodlawn Cemetery is an all-faith cemetery located in Allouez, Wisconsin under a Green Bay address. Originally incorporated in 1857 by several prominent city leaders, burials did not begin at the cemetery until 1867.[1] It is the city's oldest all-faiths cemetery.[note 1]

Woodlawn Cemetery
Details
Established1857
(burials did not begin until 1867)
Location
Allouez, Wisconsin
Coordinates44.4907°N 88.0204°W / 44.4907; -88.0204
Find a GraveWoodlawn Cemetery

History

The cemetery was incorporated in 1857, shortly after Green Bay's official incorporation, by several Green Bay politicians as a "non-profit, non-sectarian cemetery."[1] The founding group included future mayors Henry S. Baird, Nathan Goodell, Burley Follett, Charles D. Robinson, H. E. Eastman, Francis X. Desnoyers, as well as future senator and U.S. Postmaster Timothy O. Howe and town postmaster Daniel W. King. The cemetery's original plots were set to be in the city's Baird Park, but were moved to the current cemetery in 1867.

Notable burials

Notes
  1. Fort Howard Memorial Park, the city's other all-faiths cemetery, was founded in 1862. http://www.forthoward.net/index.php/history/our-history/

References
    1. "1542 S WEBSTER AVE | Property Record". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
    2. "Timothy O. Howe". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
    3. Wisconsin Newmonth. Newmonth Magazine. 1997.
    4. "Thomas R. Hudd". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
    5. "Gustav Küstermann". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
    6. "The Political Graveyard: Brown County, Wis". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
    7. "Morgan Lewis Martin". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
    8. "Mayors of Green Bay". web.archive.org. 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
    9. "Grave of August "Mike" Michalske". Find-A-Grave.
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