Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York)

History

Notable interments

• Anna Short Harrington, Working at the time as A Syracuse house maid, Anna Was discovered by “Quaker Oats Co." in 1935 while cooking her locally famous pancake recipe at the Syracuse state fair, at which time she became the marketing face of “Aunt Jemima”; An institutionally racist depiction of the “Mammy”-stereotype, used as a marketing tool.
• Charles Andrews, Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals
• Edward Gayer Andrews, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Maltbie D. Babcock, 19th century clergyman and author
• Union Major General Henry A. Barnum, recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Stephen D. Dillaye, politician, lawyer, journalist
• Herbert H. Franklin, American automobile magnate, businessman and industrialist
• Amos P. Granger, became a General following the War of 1812
• John A. Green, a Utica native who served as Brigadier General in the Civil War
• William Jervis Hough, attorney, a General in the New York Militia of Cazenovia, 8th Cavalry Regiment, and a Representative in the United States Congress
• Jesse Truesdell Peck, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and founder of Syracuse University
• Irene Sargent, art historian and Syracuse University faculty member
• Joseph Lyman Silsbee, architect
• Lyman Cornelius Smith, American industrialist
• Union Major General Edwin Vose Sumner
• Comfort Tyler, early pioneer in Syracuse, New York
• Ernest Lynn Waldorf, American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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