Originally known as Oread, this cemetery was opened in 1854 by the New Englanders who founded Lawrence. After burials in 1882, Oread fell into disuse, and in 1928 the City of Lawrence changed its name to Pioneer Cemetery. A marble obelisk near the center of the grounds honors T. W. Barber, an Ohio abolitionist shot by pro-slavery men during the Wakarusa War in December 1855 and memorialized by John Greenleaf Whittier in his poem "Burial of Barber." Eighteen military headstones in the northern section mark the graves of members of the 13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry who died of typhoid in 1862. The largest number of early burials came after Quantrill's Massacre at Lawrence on August 21, 1863; most of those dead were later re-interred in Lawrence's Oak Hill Cemetery, but the gravestones of four victims still remain. In 1953, The Kansas University Endowment Association assumed ownership, and in 1968 the cemetery reopened. Today it is the final resting place of early settlers, Civil War soldiers, and faculty, staff, and friends of The University of Kansas.