Oak Ridge Cemetery
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Oak Ridge Cemetery

Also known as Old DeWitt Cemetery

DeWitt, Clinton County, Iowa, USA

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    Coordinates: 41.82903, -90.54372
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Oak Ridge Cemetery is located adjacent and northwest of St. Joseph's Cemetery, off 14th Street and 8th Avenue. The entrance to the cemetery is on 14th Street, across from the DeWitt Fitness Center, with the graves laying to the right. The entrance can also be gained by going through the entrance of St. Joseph Cemetery on 8th Avenue, proceeding to the rear and to the right of the maintenance shed. Note: there is currently no sign for Oak Ridge Cemetery.


The DeWitt Observer and other local newspapers have called it the Old Cemetery, Old DeWitt Cemetery, DeWitt Cemetery and the Lum Cemetery. It has also been noted to be Presbyterian, with the interred including members of IOOF and the M. E. Church.


Oak Ridge Cemetery was established in about 1840 on ground donated by Seth Lum, a prosperous local farmer. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was abandoned in the early 1900s after Elmwood Cemetery, on the north side of DeWitt, was established.


In 1933 a reclamation project was undertaken. W. F. Hathaway, Director of Graves Registration division of Iowa, Mr. Harlan, state curator, and John Risley, assistant adjunct general and former DeWitt resident, whose parents were buried in the cemetery, held a meeting 8 Jun 1933 with an informal discussion following. DAR and GAR member, Mrs. Sara Schlotfeldt, initiated the reclamation idea during a survey of the cemetery in an attempt to identify the graves of soldiers and Iowa pioneers. (DeWitt Observer 8 Jun 1933)

Oak Ridge Cemetery is located adjacent and northwest of St. Joseph's Cemetery, off 14th Street and 8th Avenue. The entrance to the cemetery is on 14th Street, across from the DeWitt Fitness Center, with the graves laying to the right. The entrance can also be gained by going through the entrance of St. Joseph Cemetery on 8th Avenue, proceeding to the rear and to the right of the maintenance shed. Note: there is currently no sign for Oak Ridge Cemetery.


The DeWitt Observer and other local newspapers have called it the Old Cemetery, Old DeWitt Cemetery, DeWitt Cemetery and the Lum Cemetery. It has also been noted to be Presbyterian, with the interred including members of IOOF and the M. E. Church.


Oak Ridge Cemetery was established in about 1840 on ground donated by Seth Lum, a prosperous local farmer. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was abandoned in the early 1900s after Elmwood Cemetery, on the north side of DeWitt, was established.


In 1933 a reclamation project was undertaken. W. F. Hathaway, Director of Graves Registration division of Iowa, Mr. Harlan, state curator, and John Risley, assistant adjunct general and former DeWitt resident, whose parents were buried in the cemetery, held a meeting 8 Jun 1933 with an informal discussion following. DAR and GAR member, Mrs. Sara Schlotfeldt, initiated the reclamation idea during a survey of the cemetery in an attempt to identify the graves of soldiers and Iowa pioneers. (DeWitt Observer 8 Jun 1933)

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