Oakes, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery

The Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and includes the gravesites of several notable figures. The forty-four acres of land used for the cemetery were purchased by Matthew Vassar. Some of its architectural feature were designed by J. A. Wood. His work includes the Frost mausoleum, the cemetery gates and gatehouse, and a monument for Matthew Vassar's nephew, John Guy Vassar.

Notable burials

• Theodorus Bailey, politician
• Stephen Baker, politician
• Harvey G. Eastman, educator and politician
• James Emott, politician
• Margaret Hamilton (cremated), played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Her ashes were scattered at her estate in Amenia.
• Charles Johnston, politician
• John J. Kindred, politician
• Henry A. Livingston, politician
• Samuel Neilson, Irish nationalist
• Homer Augustus Nelson, politician
• Edmund Platt, politician
• Charles H. Ruggles, politician
• Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, politician
• James Fields Smathers, inventor
• William Wallace Smith I and Andrew Smith of Smith Brothers
• John Thompson, politician
• Matthew Vassar, brewer, merchant, founder of Vassar College