Champaign County OhArchives News.....Oakdale Cemetery Opened January 23, 1886
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The Urbana Daily Citizen January 23, 1886
dated 23-Jan-1886 abstract of article
Since Oak Dale cemetery was first opened as a burial ground in Oct 1855 to Jan 
1886, there have been 3,550 interments, or an average of over 100 per year.  
This beautiful cemetery was fisr dedicated as a place for the burial of the 
dead in 1855, under the name of Greenwood and the board of Trustees were 
Lemuel Weaver, John Poffenbarger, John H Young, J.H. Patrick, DAvid Gwynne, 
W.F. Mosgrove and Henry Craybill.  Lemuel Weaver was president, Mosgrove 
secretary and general agent.  Before this cemetery was opened, the land was 
occupied by C.H. Murphy as a floral garden and was used as a burial place.  By 
a law passed in 1852 by which no graveyard should be inside the corporation, 
led to the purchase of the present one.  

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