Index to Locations BucyrusOakwood CemeteryDallas TownshipMonnett ChapelGraveyard
OakwoodCemetery
835 Kaler Avenue
Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio
Founded 1858
See alsoFindagravepage for this location.| Politicians buriedhere: | | |  Ebenezer Byron Finley (1833-1916) — also known asEbenezer Finley — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Orrville,WayneCounty, Ohio,July 31,1833.Democrat.U.S.Representative from Ohio, 1877-81 (14th District 1877-79, 8thDistrict 1879-81); circuit judge in Ohio 3rd Circuit, 1896-97.Died in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,August22, 1916 (age83 years, 22days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | George Sweney (1796-1877) — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born near Gettysburg,AdamsCounty, Pa.,February22, 1796.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1839-43.Died in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,October10, 1877 (age81 years, 230days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | Stephen Ross Harris (1824-1905) — also known asStephen R. Harris;"UncleStephen" —of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born near Massillon,StarkCounty, Ohio,May 22,1824.Republican.Mayorof Bucyrus, Ohio, 1852;U.S.Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1895-97.Died in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,January15, 1905 (age80 years, 238days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | John Edward Hopley (1850-1927) — also known asJohn E. Hopley — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Elkton,ToddCounty, Ky.,August25, 1850.Republican.Newspapereditor;lawyer;campaign manager and then private secretary to U.S. Rep.StephenR. Harris, 1895-97; U.S. Consul inSouthampton, 1898-1903;Montevideo, 1903-05; Republican candidate for PresidentialElector for Ohio,1912;candidate forU.S.Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1914.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;RoyalArch Masons;Royaland Select Masters;Order of theEastern Star;KnightsTemplar;Elks.As a bedridden invalid, smoking a pipe, he accidentally dropped thepipe, hisclothes caughtfire, and he was badly burned; his burns becameinfected,leading to his death a few days later, in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,July 10,1927 (age76 years, 319days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | Thomas Prat Hopley (1854-1934) — also known asThomas P. Hopley — of Enid,GarfieldCounty, Okla.Born in Logan,HockingCounty, Ohio,November13, 1854.Newspapereditor; Independent candidate forU.S.Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1922; Independentcandidate forU.S.Senator from Oklahoma, 1926, 1930, 1932.Died in Enid,GarfieldCounty, Okla.,March14, 1934 (age79 years, 121days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | James Richard Hopley (1863-1954) — also known asJames R. Hopley — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,August1, 1863.Republican. Postmaster atBucyrus,Ohio, 1911; candidate forU.S.Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1926; alternate delegateto Republican National Convention from Ohio,1928.Died in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,August9, 1954 (age91 years, 8days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | John Prat Hopley (1821-1904) — also known asJohn Hopley — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Whitstable, Kent,England,May21, 1821.Schoolteacher;superintendentof schools;lawyer;bankexaminer;newspaperpublisher; postmaster atBucyrus,Ohio, 1870-79, 1890-94.Died in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,June 3,1904 (age83 years, 13days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. | | Jacob Babst (1846-1926) — of Crestline,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.BornFebruary11, 1846.Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention fromOhio,1916.DiedAugust20, 1926 (age80 years, 190days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.  | Clarence Ulmond Ahl (1893-1972) — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,February19, 1893.Democrat.Lawyer;chair ofCrawford County Democratic Party, 1915-17; served in the U.S.Army during World War I.Member,Eagles;Moose;AmericanLegion.DiedDecember2, 1972 (age79 years, 287days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.| |  Relatives: Sonof William Ahl and Caroline (Graff) Ahl; married,June 11,1919, to Anna Mary Smith. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: Bench and Bar of NorthernOhio (1921) |
| Politicians formerlyburied here: | | | Lawrence Washington Hall (1819-1863) — of Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born inLakeCounty, Ohio,1819.Democrat.Lawyer;common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1852-57;U.S.Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1857-59; defeated, 1858.Imprisonedfor allegeddisloyaltyto the Union in 1862.Died of alunghemorrhage, Bucyrus,CrawfordCounty, Ohio,January18, 1863 (ageabout 43years).Original interment at Oakwood Cemetery; reinterment atForestLawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Monnett ChapelGraveyard
Dallas Township, Crawford County, Ohio
| Politicians buriedhere: | | | Frank Sylvestor Monnett (b. 1857) — also known asFrank S. Monnett — ofCrawfordCounty, Ohio.Born in Kenton,HardinCounty, Ohio,March19, 1857.Lawyer;Ohiostate attorney general, 1896-1900; defeated in Democraticprimary, 1926; Democratic candidate forU.S.Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1910; in 1915, when theU.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was a committee chair in"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargoagainst the countries then at war; the organization secretly receivedfunding fromGermanagents;indictedin December 1915, along withH.Robert Fowler,FrankBuchanan, and others, forrestraintof trade over the Peace Council's attempts tofomentstrikes in U.S. munitions plants;stoodtrial with seven co-defendants, but during the trial, the chargesagainst him were dismissed.Died in Columbus,FranklinCounty, Ohio.Interment at Monnett Chapel Graveyard.
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