A visit to the Oakwood Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Oakwood Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Oakwood Cemetery (FG ID #48286)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Oakwood Cemetery ...
The Oakwood Cemetery is located in Chatham County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Amose Grove Cemetery
- Bethlehem Wesleyan Church Cemetery
- Bray Cemetery
- Center Methodist Church Cemetery
- Chatham Memorial Park
- The Chatham Memorial Park is located in Chatham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham Memorial Park
- Concord Cemetery
- The Concord Cemetery is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord Cemetery
- Emmaus Baptist Church Cemetery
- Fairview Cemetery
- The Fairview Cemetery is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Cemetery
- Holly Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church Cemetery
- Holly Spring Friends Meeting Cemetery
- Kildee Wesleyan Church Cemetery
- Marley Cemetery
- The Marley Cemetery is located in Chatham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marley Cemetery
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- McMasters Cemetery
- Mt. Vernon Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- Old McMasters Cemetery
- The Old McMasters Cemetery is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old McMasters Cemetery
- Old Salem Cemetery
- The Old Salem Cemetery is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Salem Cemetery
- Old Shady Grove Cemetery
- Olivers Chapel Cemetery
- Pleasant Grove Christian Church Cemetery
- Pleasant Hill Christian Church Cemetery
- Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
- Sunset Knoll Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 26 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Oakwood Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Bear Creek
- Bennett
- Bonlee
- Bonlee is located in Chatham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonlee
- Carbonton
- Cedar Falls
- Cedar Falls is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Falls
- Coleridge
- Eli Whitney
- Eli Whitney is located in Alamance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli Whitney
- Franklinville
- Goldston
- Gulf
- Gulf is located in Chatham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulf
- Julian
- Kimesville
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Liberty
- Mandale
- Mandale is located in Alamance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandale
- Melanchton
- Millboro
- Pittsboro
- Pleasant Hill
- Pleasant Hill is located in Alamance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
- Ramseur
- Redcross
- Rock Creek
- Rock Creek is located in Alamance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
- Saxapahaw
- Siler City
- Snow Camp
- Staley
- Sutphin
- Sutphin is located in Alamance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutphin
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Oakwood Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Chatham County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Oakwood Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Pittsboro
- Ramseur
- Siler City
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Oakwood Cemetery:
- Pages specific to North Carolina:
- Pages specific to Chatham County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Oakwood Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #48286
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #991490 (Oakwood Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #991490 was archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website. In the past, the GNIS record contained the following information:
- BGN Class: cemetery
- County: Chatham
- Est. Elev: 201 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Siler City
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Chatham, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oakwood Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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