This is a fairly small cemetery located on Milwaukee Avenue in Glenview. The cemetery is divided into 3 sections with a very narrow horseshoe driveway around the center section. Some headstones are cracked, toppled and due to age impossible to read. Easy to walk and see all the gravesites.

The cemetery was started about 1831. Some say it was first used as a cemetery to bury a worker who had died or had been killed while laying planks along Milwaukee Avenue. It was known as Oakwood Cemetery originally; however, there was another Oakwood Cemetery in southern Cook County.
The land presently making up the cemetery was deeded from R. PHILLIPS and wife, Asa W. BUTTON and wife, and Thomas ALLISON and wife in 1862 and the ALLISONS again in 1880. The cemetery also purchased 44 lots for $4440.00 in 1898 from Ernest E. KENNICOTT. One piece at the extreme west end of the cemetery was deeded to the cemetery in 1934 from Walter KENNICOTT. This same piece had been deeded to him from Lester T. ALLISON and his wife Grace, Mary E. HELM and her husband Lewis and J. Albert ALLISON and his wife in 1919.
The West Northfield Evangelical Church, north of the cemetery, was organized April 18, 1888. Trustees were Conrad MILLER, Jacob BODINE Sr., Jacob BODINE Jr., George STRONG, and George ALLISON. 12 feet of the church property was deeded over to the cemetery in 1935. This completed the drive in a loop through the cemetery. At that time, the trustees of the church were George ALLISON, Mrs. George CLARKE, Grace DEARLOVE, Henry WERHANE, and George RICHARDS.
This church served the community for many years, It is unknown if a permanent minister was ever assigned, but was on a temporary basis. many neighbors were married in the church and a number buried from it. One of the last funeral services was for Herbert MELZER. The church was disbanded in the late 30's, and the property deeded back to the ALLISON family. They in turn deeded it over to the cemetery. This completed the cemetery as we know it today. The church building was moved in the mid 1940's to become the home of the Countryside Covenant Church in Glenview. It has been remodeled a couple of time since, so it is now unrecognizable.
Reading the headstones you will find the names of the founders of this community. The oldest headstone is dated 1837. This is a Dearlove born in England, died and buried on their farm and later moved after the cemetery was established.
Fifteen Civil War veterans including William ALLISON and Jacob MELZER are buried here. Henry A. CLARK was the first veteran, buried on September 1, 1864. One nurse, May CLELAND, served in the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion. A number of World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans are buried here. On the north side of the cemetery there is a veterans memorial monument with the names of the veterans buried here. A flag flies year round in front of the stone, and on Memorial Day four more are put at each corner to honor those who have served their country.
The Oakwood Cemetery Association Board was established in 1898 with John CLARK as president, George STRONG as Secretary, and John ALLISON as a director. On January 15, 1927 the charter members of the newly organized Northfield Oakwood Cemetery Association were, Herman WERHANE as president, Richard T. DEARLOVE as vice-president, Charles A. BARTLING as secretary, and George CLARK, and John W. SUYDAM serving as directors. On May 9, 1927 the cemetery, located one half mile north of Lake Ave on Milwaukee Ave in Northfield Township known as Oakwood Cemetery was renamed Northfield Oakwood Cemetery, thus eliminating the confusion of two Oakwood cemeteries in Cook County. On June 30, 1948 Northfield Oakwood Cemetery Association was licensed by the state of Illinois.

Compiled by Chris and Wayne CARLE in 1998