Oak Hill Cemetery
Lucy Faulkner
by Leslie Beesley Belleville Telescope, June 1, 1894 While visiting Section 4 at Oak Hill, I stumbled upon a…
Perry Bigelow Barber
by Leslie Beesley Perry. Year unknown. Perry (right) at age six and his sister Emma at age four. Photo…
Oak Hill Committee Photographed by Lawrence Parks & Rec
On August 22, the Lawrence Department of Parks, Recreation, Arts and Culture paid tribute to the Oak Hill Cemetery Committee…
Oak Hill Cemetery selected for 48StateTour
Oak Hill Cemetery has been selected as this year’s Kansas stop on Atlas Preservation’s 48StateTour, a nationwide gravestone preservation workshop…
How do You Conserve a Cemetery?
Lawrence’s Oak Hill Cemetery is undergoing a dramatic restoration! We spoke with Lucinda Linderman, Sculpture Conservator with Pacific Coast…
2023 Headstone Cleaning Report
Headstone cleaning for the 2023 season has concluded at Oak Hill Cemetery. The Oak Hill Cemetery Committee of Watkins Museum…
Founders of Oak Hill Cemetery Tour
On a beautiful breezy evening, historian and Oak Hill Cemetery Committee member, Leslie Beesley, led a Founders of Oak Hill…
The Friends of Oak Hill Cemetery
There are so many notable burials in Oak Hill Cemetery that American journalist and politician William Allen White proclaimed it…