Woodville Cemetery
(Previously Blood Cemetery)
Township of Linwood
Portage County
Wisconsin

About 2 miles SW of Stevens Point. On the west side of Cemetery Road, 0.1 mile south of West River Drive.

Cemetery closed to the general public.
This cemetery is in a neighborhood watch protected area due to vandalism.

44.4671, -89.6133

Late in the 1800's, the owner of the property of the cemetery and the land around it donated the cemetery land to what is now the Town of Linwood. The cemetery was a plot of land set aside for those people who did not have money for a grave for their loved ones. The cemetery was named The Woodville Cemetery.

Over the years a few dozen people were buried there. One of those people was a man named Calvin Blood. Mr. Blood was born in 1825 in what is now the Township of Linwood. He was beat up and bullied much of his youth due to his last name. Mr. Blood joined the Union Army to fight in the Civil War where he served for two terms. One term was with the Wisconsin Branch and the other was with the United States Union Army.

After putting his life on the line for human rights for the slaves, Mr. Blood was given an Honorable Discharge at the war's end. He moved back to this area and met a woman who became his wife. They farmed the land and raised a family. Mr. Blood lived to be 82 years old, at a time when life expectancy was 45 years. The death certificate shows that Mr. Blood died from consumption. This was a respiratory problem. Mr. Blood was burried in the Woodville Cemetery in 1907.

Since that time and more so as transportation became more available, the cemetery and all the homes in the area have suffered from teenage vandalism. The once peaceful cemetery has been ruined with only two headstones remaining.

The cemetery is vandalized nearly daily and there are repeated acts of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, criminal trespass, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle, assault, and many more unlawful acts to the cemetery and the surrounding neighborhood.

Mr. Blood's original grave marker has been destroyed and replaced several times over the years so that now there is just a cement slab with his name on it. Over the years it has been found that 99.85% of the unlawful activity and threats to the neighborhood and cemetery have been done by teenagers, mostly boys.

The cemetery has been under 24 hours surveillance for several years. When the teenage boys are prosecuted they have fines ranging from $75.00 to several hundred dollars. The latest attempt to stop the problem is to try and educate the teenagers and, at times, take away their driver's license. There have been teachers from the area high schools who have sent the students out to see the "haunted" cemetery. The cemetery, of course, is not haunted, and, if it were not for the last name of "Blood", hardly a person would visit the cemetery.

TV Channel 9 sent a a Paranormal Assessment team out to the cemetery for a reading. The Assessment Team found no paranormal activity. (See attachment)
Sources:
• Portage County Gazette
• Newspaper Archives, Portage County
• Cemetery and Gravestone Historian, Phil Kallas, Portage County Coordinator
• Medical Records
• Military Records
• Death Certificate
• Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society
• Relatives and Descendants of Mr. Blood
• Paranormal Assessment Team, Michael J. Wanie, Chief Investigator
--information from cemetery

Woodville Cemetery
(Previously Blood Cemetery)
Township of Linwood
Portage County
Wisconsin

About 2 miles SW of Stevens Point. On the west side of Cemetery Road, 0.1 mile south of West River Drive (beyond the trees on the right side of the road).

Cemetery closed to the general public.
This cemetery is in a neighborhood watch protected area due to vandalism.

44.4671, -89.6133

Woodville Cemetery
(Previously Blood Cemetery)
Township of Linwood
Portage County
Wisconsin

About 2 miles SW of Stevens Point. On the west side of Cemetery Road, 0.1 mile south of West River Drive.

Cemetery closed to the general public.
This cemetery is in a neighborhood watch protected area due to vandalism.

44.4671, -89.6133