Oak Hill Cemetery and Memorial Park Cemetery

Lawrence's Oak Hill Cemetery
& Memorial Park Cemetery
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The next stop on the Oak Hill Cemetery tour is along the roadway in section 10. John P. Usher (1816-1889) was President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of Interior from 1863 to 1865. THe Usher family vault emerges from a low hillside. Is is made of limestone and has a neo-classical front with an opening framed by gray granite columns.

Usher family vault in Lawrence Kansas' Oak Park Cemetery.
John P. Usher Vault

The ends of the Usher family vaults can be seen through the dirty, old glass on the gates at the front of
the building. John P. Usher's maker is very faint.

Potter's Field at the north east corner of Oak Hill Cemetery.

The next stop on the Oak Hill Cemetery tour is the grave of George Nash Walker (1872-1911), a turn of the century vaudeville entertainer. I was unable to locate the modest individual marker, but its location may be incorrectly marked on the map. If you locate it, please let me no exactly where it was.

Near George Walker's burial are three hand made grave markers with shells imbedded in there tops. They are not where they shown on the map, but just a little farther east, across the roadway.

Priscilla Gray and F. M. Monroe graves
Priscilla Gray Died Jan, 23, 1920 F. M. Monroe Died Oct. 28, 1921

Rounding the roadway to the west, you will see a Spanish American War Memorial erected by Company H of the 20th Kansas Infantry, Eight Army Corps.

20th Kansas Infantry Spanish American War Memorial
Spanish American War Memorial erected by Company H of the 20th Kansas Infantry

Erected by Company H, 20th Kansas Inft. USV Eighth Army Corps
Spanish American War 1898-1899

Lawrence Memorial Park is across the street, just south of Oak Park Cemetery. Its most famous burial is that of James Naismith, the creator of basketball.

James Naismith Memorial in Lawrence Memorial Park, just south of Oak Park Cemetery

James Naismith memorial Lawrence, Kansas
Dr. James Naismith was the first basketball coach
at the University of Kansas and helped develop the
first modern basketball gymnasium.

Dr. James Naismith at the University of Kansas
Dr. James Naismith
Born November 6, 1861 in Almonte Ontario, Canada and died November 28, 1939 in Lawrence,
Kansas. buried in Lawrence Memorial Park. D. Naismith invented the game of basketball as a
winter indoor sport for the YMCA at Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.

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