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Oakwood Cemetery | |
 Oakwood Confederate Cemetery | |
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| Location | Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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| Area | 190 acres (77 ha) |
| Part of | Oakwood Historic District (ID74001380[1]) |
| Added to NRHP | June 25, 1974 |
Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital of North Carolina, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its 102 acres (41 ha), the Confederate Cemetery,[2] located on the original two and a half acres (1 ha), and the Hebrew Cemetery, both given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867.
Notable burials[edit]
- George B. Anderson, Confederate Army general
- Charles B. Aycock, Governor of North Carolina
- Cora Lily Woodard Aycock, First Lady of North Carolina and President of the North Carolina Railroad
- George Edmund Badger, U.S. Congressman
- Josiah W. Bailey, U.S. Senator
- John Heritage Bryan, U.S. Congressman
- William Horn Battle, jurist and law professor
- Kemp P. Battle, lawyer, businessman, and educator
- Thomas Bragg, Governor of North Carolina
- Carrie Lougee Broughton, North Carolina State Librarian
- Needham B. Broughton, temperance activist and political figure
- Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., Confederate Army officer
- Lorenzo Charles, basketball player
- William Ruffin Cox, Confederate Army general
- Josephus Daniels, Newspaper publisher and political figure[3]
- Elizabeth Edwards, attorney, author, and health care activist[4][5]
- William G. Enloe, businessman and political figure
- Thad A. Eure, political figure
- Daniel Gould Fowle, Governor of North Carolina
- Winder Russell Harris, US Congressman
- Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator[6]
- Robert Hoke, Confederate Army general
- William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina
- Cornelia Petty Jerman, North Carolina suffragist
- Nell Battle Lewis, journalist and lawyer
- Augustus S. Merrimon, U.S. Senator
- Bartholomew F. Moore, North Carolina Attorney General and legislator
- Dan K. Moore, Governor of North Carolina
- Jeanelle C. Moore, First Lady of North Carolina
- Cornelia Alice Norris, socialite and genealogist
- Leonidas L. Polk, journalist and political figure[7]
- Edwin G. Reade, U.S. Congressman
- William N. H. Smith, U.S. Congressman
- Willis Smith, U.S. Congressman
- David L. Swain, Governor of North Carolina
- Thomas F. Toon, Confederate Army general
- Jim Valvano, college basketball coach[8]
- Carle Augustus Woodruff, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Jonathan Worth, Governor of North Carolina
References[edit]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Raleigh’s Confederate Cemetery
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #3038. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #3806. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
- ^ Monument created by Robert Mihaly – Chicago Sun Times: Credits
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #5749. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #10149. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #12913. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.