I'm excited about the first guided Stories and Stones walk at Oak Hill cemetery tomorrow! I've been planning it for so long, thinking about it, playing with the script, and so on. The weather promises to be good, for which I am thankful. If you decide to join me on the free hour-long walk, just came a little before 10 a.m. comfortably dressed and wearing sensible shoes. I believe the Friends of Oak Hill Chapel will have the chapel open as well, so you can peek inside and see the wall of restored stained glass windows.
If you cannot attend the walk, I have included Find a Grave links that give some of the same information I will be sharing.
These are the stops I plan to make on the walk. All are in a big square behind the chapel, some of the oldest areas of the cemetery.
1. Ithamar Conkey Sloan's family vault
2. Family plot of Corporal Frank E. Hilt
3. Family plot of Rev. Orin Dearborn
4. Family plot of Judge William Holmes
5. Family plot of Sergeant Henry Whittier
6. Family plot of Capt. William Dick Cargill, Scottish sea captain
7. The lovely rustic monument of Josie Kimball Conant
8. Family plot of Levi Alden
9. Family plot of Levi St. John, early pioneer
10. W.H. Sargent Post Grand Army of the Republic block
11. Memorial for James Croft, Medal of Honor winner
12. Family plot of John and Anna Roethinger, Janesville brewers
13. Headstone of Orlando Florida, the man, not the city
14. Family plot of James Harris, Janesville's "Father of Industry"
15. Family plot of Rev. Georg Kaempflein
16. Family plot of James Sutherland
17. The old Public Grounds (Potters Field)
18. Family plot of General James Bintliff
19. The Odd Fellows block
20. Family plot of Gerald Braisher, equipment manager for Vince Lombardi
21. Family plot of Capt. Pliny Norcross
22. Family plot of Capt. Ira Miltimore
