The Oak Hill Cemetery Association was organized under an 1850 act of the Wisconsin legislature.

The evidence

• “Oak Hill Cemetery Association was organized on the 8th day of January, 1851, under the provisions of an act authorizing the formation of cemetery associations, adopted by the Legislature of Wisconsin a year previous. The certificate of the Association places ihe management of aSairs. in the hands of nine Trustees, who are divided into three classes ; the term of”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/14-rock-county-ch08-janesville.md, PDF p. 593 / book p. 597

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

• “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.”

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources