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Oakland Cemetery

Yonkers, Italy

Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery is located at 2 Saw Mill River Road in Yonkers, New York, next to St. John's Cemetery. It was incorporated in 1875 and named Oakland Cemetery in 1882. In time, graves from the Civil War filled the cemetery, as did those of other settlers of Yonkers who died. The cemetery is divided

into two halves with a hill separating the western lower half from the eastern upper half. The eastern half borders on the Saw Mill River Parkway, while the western half borders on Saw Mill River Road, where all of the entrances are located. There are two entrance gates that are large enough for a vehicle to enter through and one other smaller entrance gate for pedestrian visitors. The original cemetery was established around 1783 as St. John's Cemetery. That site holds the graves of notable 19th-century Yonkers residents and over 200 American military veterans, spanning from the Revolutionary War to World War I. Unidentified victims of the 1851 Henry Clay steamboat disaster are also buried in St. John's Cemetery, in a mass grave (the disaster occurred on the Hudson River near Yonkers). The first burial in a larger, non-sectarian public cemetery, south and east of the original St. John’s...

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