Bodies from the old Janesville cemetery block were taken up and reburied in Oak Hill and Mt. Olivet cemeteries (in 1855 and 1856).

The evidence

• “January 8, 1851, the Oak Hill Cemetery Association was organized and procured land where the Oak Hill Cemetery now is. Previous to this time, as stated before, the block now occupied by the Jefferson school was used as a cemetery; but from this time on no more bodies were interred there, and in 1855 and 1856 those that had been buried there were taken up and reburied in Oak Hill and Mt. Olivet cemeteries.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 30 / book p. 544

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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