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‘We can only guess …’: History, mysteries buried in Woodstock’s 164-year-old Oakland Cemetery

By Morgen Neuhauser news@thewoodstockindependent.com Frank E. Hanaford, a Civil War soldier buried in Woodstock’s Oakland Cemetery, escaped the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville in 1864. Just a month after […]

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Child graves get belated marker

About a century late, Woodstock will do right by 48 almost-forgotten children who are buried in Oakland Cemetery. Those children are buried in an open plot that, until last week, […]

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Orphans Memorial Fundraiser Reaches Goal

Project on track to be dedicated in spring of 2018 A campaign to build a memorial to children buried in an unmarked cemetery plot has reached its fundraising goal. In […]

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Memorializing Woodstock’s Forgotten Children

In Oakland Cemetery, there is a plot, peaceful and undisturbed, wide open and unmarked. A hundred years ago, wooden crosses may have marked the spot, which sits behind the mausoleum, […]

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