Historic Oakwood Cemetery
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Coordinates: 35°47′11″N 78°37′33″W / 35.7864°N 78.6259°W
Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, North Carolina near the North Carolina State Capitol in Historic Oakwood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its 102 acres (41 ha), the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and one-half acres (1 ha), and the Hebrew Cemetery, both given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867.
[edit] Notable burials
- George B. Anderson
- Charles B. Aycock
- Josiah W. Bailey
- William Horn Battle
- Kemp P. Battle
- Thomas Bragg
- Needham B. Broughton
- Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.
- William R. Cox
- Josephus Daniels
- Elizabeth Edwards, and son Wade Edwards
- William G. Enloe
- Daniel Gould Fowle
- Jesse Helms
- Robert Hoke
- William Woods Holden
- Basil Charles Manly, Confederate Major of Artillery and Mayor of Raleigh.
- Augustus S. Merrimon
- Dan K. Moore
- Leonidas L. Polk
- Edwin G. Reade
- Willis Smith
- David L. Swain
- Thomas F. Toon
- Berrian Kinnard Upshaw, first husband of Margaret Mitchell and possible inspiration for the character Rhett Butler.
- Jim Valvano
- Lorenzo Charles, buried one space down from his coach Jim Valvano
- Carle Augustus Woodruff
- Jonathan Worth
[edit] References
- Find-A-Grave.com. Historic Oakwood Cemetery: Credits. Retrieved Jul. 9, 2008.
- Raleigh’s Confederate Cemetery
