Historic Oakwood Cemetery

Cemetery in Wake County, North Carolina

35°47′12″N 78°37′30″W / 35.7867070°N 78.6249848°W / 35.7867070; -78.6249848

United States historic place


Oakwood Cemetery
U.S. Historic district Contributing property

Oakwood Confederate Cemetery
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Location	Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina
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

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, political figure
Needham B. Broughton, North Carolina State Librarian
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

^ "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.