Find A Grave - Oakwood Cemetery

Beaman, Fernando Cortez b. June 28, 1814 d. September 27, 1882
US Congressman. One of the founders of the Republican Party. He was raised in New York and became an attorney in Michigan in 1838. Beaman was Lenawee District Attorney and Adrian City Attorney from 1843 to 1850. In 1854 he was a member of the Jackson, Michigan convention that founded the Republican Party, and he was a delegate to the party's first National Convention in 1856. Beaman was Mayor of Adrian in 1856 and Lenawee Probate Judge from 1856 to 1860. In 1860 he was elected to the first of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Chaffee, Jerome Bunty b. April 17, 1825 d. March 9, 1886
Republican Senator from Colorado. He served in the US Senate from 1876-1879. Having lived for a time in Jackson, Missouri, the city of Chaffee, Missouri was named for him. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Croswell, Charles M. b. October 31, 1825 d. December 13, 1886
17th Governor of Michigan 1877-1880.
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Eldredge, Nathaniel Buel b. March 28, 1813 d. November 7, 1893
US Congressman. He was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1848 and was a judge of probate, 1852 to 1856. During the Civil War, he served as Captain of Company G, 17th Regiment, Michigan Volunteers and was discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1863. He was elected sheriff of Lenawee County in 1874 and served until elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, serving from 1883 to 1887. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Greenly, William L b. September 13, 1813 d. November 29, 1883
6th Michigan Governor. Served as Governor of Michigan in 1847. (Bio by: Mark Pawelczak)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Humphrey, William b. June 12, 1828 d. January 15, 1899
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A school teacher, clerk, and businessman before the Civil War, he joined the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry as a captain in April of 1861, and was promoted to major in June of 1862. On May 1, 1863, he was promoted to colonel of the 2nd Michigan. After participating in all of the major battles of the Ninth Corps, he was wounded twice at the Battle of Spotsylvania. In June of 1864, he was appointed commander of the second brigade of the third division of...[Read More] (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Plot: Block 26, Lot 2
Merillat, Orville D. b. May 1, 1916 d. January 15, 1999
Businessman-Philanthropist Served in US Coast Guard during WWII; married Ruth Muller on January 19, 1941; founder, and former President and CEO of Merillat Industries, Inc.; employer of over 3,000 people with more than eleven factories across the United States; recipient of the Michigan Small Business Person of the Year in 1977; co-recipient with Ruth of the National Association of Evangelicals' Laypersons of the Year in 1988; founded the Orville and Ruth Merillat Foundation; founded the...[Read More] (Bio by: Always with Love)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Smith, Henry Cassorte b. June 2, 1856 d. December 7, 1911
US Congressman. His family moved to Palmyra, Michigan in 1857 and Smith lived on a farm while attending the local schools. He worked on farms and in factories throughout Lenawee County to pay his college tuition, and graduated from Adrian College in 1878. He then taught school while studying law, attained admission to the bar in 1880, and began a practice in Adrian. Active in Republican politics from the time he attended college, Smith served as Adrian's City Attorney and Lenawee County's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
Smith, Samuel William b. August 23, 1852 d. June 19, 1931
US Congressman. He attended schools in Clarkston and Detroit and became a schoolteacher in 1869. In 1875 Smith became Principal and Superintendent of Schools for Waterford, Michigan. He also studied law in an attorney's office while attending the University of Michigan Law School, attaining admission to the bar in 1877 and receiving his law degree in 1878. Smith then began a law practice in Pontiac, Michigan and served as Oakland County's Prosecuting Attorney from 1880 to 1884. In 1884 he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA

9 records found