A visit to the Oakland 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 Oakland Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Oakland Cemetery (FG ID #65498)
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 Oakland Cemetery ...
The Oakland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Yonkers.
The cemetery is located in Westchester County<2>.
Adjacent to the Oakland Cemetery and just to the north is the Saint Johns Cemetery.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Beechwoods Cemetery
- Blessed Sacrament Cemetery
- Bronxville Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- Brookside Cemetery
- The Brookside Cemetery is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookside Cemetery
- Cooke Family Cemetery
- The Cooke Family Cemetery is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooke Family Cemetery
- Holy Mount Cemetery
- The Holy Mount Cemetery is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Mount Cemetery
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
- St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery
- St. Josephs Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- St. Pauls Protestant Episcopal Cemetery
- Seacord Cemetery
- The Seacord Cemetery is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seacord Cemetery
- Sherwood Park Cemetery
- The Sherwood Park Cemetery is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood Park Cemetery
- Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Cemetery
- Temple Israel Cemetery
- Trinity Protestant Episcopal Cemetery
- Westchester Hills Cemetery
- Woodlawn Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 25 communities are within Less than 2 miles<3> of the Oakland Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Ardsley
- Bronxville
- Bryn Mawr Park
- Dobbs Ferry
- Eastchester
- Eastchester is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastchester
- Eastchester
- Englewood
- Fordham
- Greenville
- Greenville is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
- Hastings-on-Hudson
- Inwood
- Kings Bridge
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Mount Hope
- Mount Hope is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope
- Mount Vernon
- Nepperhan
- New Rochelle
- Palisades
- Pelham Manor
- Pelham
- Riverdale
- Saint Josephs Village
- Saint Josephs Village is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Josephs Village
- Spuyten Duyvil
- Tuckahoe
- Williams Bridge
- Yonkers
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 Oakland Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Westchester County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Oakland Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Ardsley
- Bronxville
- Dobbs Ferry
- Englewood
- Hastings-on-Hudson
- Mount Vernon
- New Rochelle
- Pelham Manor
- Pelham
- Tuckahoe
- Williams Bridge
- Yonkers
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 helpful 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 Oakland Cemetery:
- Pages specific to New York:
- Pages specific to Westchester 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 Oakland Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #65498
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #959169 (Oakland Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #959169 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: Westchester
- Est. Elev: 52 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Yonkers
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 New York's counties, including Westchester, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oakland Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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