The Oak Grove
Cemetery of Tomah,
Monroe County,
Wisconsin
This website contains lists of the
decedents and their gravesite locations as well as the owners of the lots in
the Oak Grove Cemetery in Tomah, Monroe County, Wisconsin. Click on the links below to see a picture of
the main entrance as well as a schematic map of the various sections of the
cemetery. (To return to this page, click
the Back Arrow icon on your screen.)
The first burials
took place in the Oak Grove Cemetery in about 1860, with the first known deed
having been registered to Daniel W. Bigelow in about 1859. The first burial is believed to have been that
of Edmund Crapp, who was buried in August 1852. Edmund was a two-year-old child, having been
born in October 1850. It is very likely
that he was initially buried elsewhere, and then re-buried in the Oak Grove
Cemetery in the early-1860's.
Click the link below to view and print a
report of the purchase dates of the cemetery's lots. The listing is in chronological order, from
the earliest dates to the most recent through the end of 2002. There are 82 pages in the report and your
modem speed will determine how long that the report takes to load. When you locate a page that you would like to
print, click File, Print, and specify the page number(s). (Note: The reports are in .pdf format and require
Adobe Reader to read and print them. You
can download a free copy of Adobe Reader at www.adobe.com.)
Chronological
List of Lot Purchases
The cemetery's earliest recorded death is
that of Jane Z. Barnes, who died in March 1833. It is almost certain that Jane was originally
buried elsewhere, and then re-buried in Oak Grove when her cemetery plot was
purchased by L. Barnes in 1918.
Click the link below to view and print a
report of the cemetery's earliest dates of death. There are 243 pages in the entire report, but
you can print specific pages by clicking File, Print, and specifying the page
number(s).
Chronological
List of Decedent Deaths
As of January 2003, the Oak Grove
Cemetery contained the known graves of 6,850 individuals--nearly as many as the
number of residents that live in Tomah at the present time. It is by far the largest cemetery in the area,
and—many would say—the most beautiful and best maintained.
Below is a link to a report of all of the known decedents who were buried in the Tomah Oak
Grove Cemetery through the end of 2002. The report consists of an alphabetical list of
the decedent's surname, given name (or initial), dates of birth and death (as
listed in the cemetery records), and the Section, Block and Lot where the
decedent's grave is located. There are
264 pages in the report.
Alphabetical
List of Decedents
The link below is to a report of all of the 2,173 known owners of lots in the Tomah Oak Grove
Cemetery. The report consists of an
alphabetical list of the owner's surname, given name (or initial), the date of
the deed for the lot, and its Section, Block and Lot location. There are 84 pages in the report.
Alphabetical
List of Lot Owners
There are 15 lots in the cemetery for
which the owner is not known. Below is a
link to a one-page report of those lots, including the name of the decedent(s)
buried in the lot and its location. Most
of the lots are in the Original Plat (OP) section of the cemetery.
We hope that you find this website's
information to be useful in locating a decedent or a cemetery lot that you may
be searching for. If you are aware of
any errors in our data, or have additional information to add (e.g., complete
given name, maiden name, full date of birth or death, etc.), please let me
know.
Special thanks go to Marie (Suhr) Drescher
(deceased), who compiled and maintained the cemetery records for many, many
years and who allowed us to make the information available. She was succeeded in that position in 2002 by
Bonnie Dana, and we thank her for her help as well.
If you are interested in finding
out more information about cemetery records, contact the Tomah Oak Grove
Cemetery Foundation.
Follow the first link below to
get to a website that contains reports on nearly 400 families that settled
throughout Monroe County in the mid- to late-1800's; the reports on those sites
contain many present-day Tomah-area families.
The second link leads to a website that
commemorates the many families in the Tomah area that descend from the Pilgrims
and “Strangers” who were passengers on the Mayflower. Many present-day Monroe County families are
listed on that site, as well.
The third link
leads to a website that contains several reports of the earliest (1862-1889)
births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths and
burials that are recorded in the Parish Register of St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Ridgeville Township.
The fourth link leads to a website that
contains information on families related to the Griggs family of LaGrange
Township and the Pergande family of Ridgeville and Wilton Townships.
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Griggs and Pergande
Families
Gary
Griggs
Murrells
Inlet, SC
