Historic Oakwood Cemetery
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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 Script error: No such module "convert"., the Confederate Cemetery,[1] located on the original Script error: No such module "convert"., 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
- Lucile Aycock McKee, president of the Junior League of Raleigh
- 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[2]
- Elizabeth Edwards, attorney, author, and health care activist[3][4]
- 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[5]
- Robert Hoke, Confederate Army general
- Louisa Virginia Harrison Holden, First Lady of North Carolina
- 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, genealogist, and Regent of the Caswell-Nash Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- Leonidas L. Polk, journalist and political figure[6]
- Edwin G. Reade, U.S. Congressman
- Mishew Edgerton Smith, socialite
- 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[7]
- Miriam Carson Williams, first woman to serve as President of a U.S-based bank
- Carle Augustus Woodruff, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Jonathan Worth, Governor of North Carolina
- Martitia Daniel Worth, First Lady of North Carolina
References
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- ↑ Raleigh’s Confederate Cemetery
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External links
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- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Confederate States of America cemeteries
- Geography of Raleigh, North Carolina
- Jewish cemeteries in the United States
- Tourist attractions in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Protected areas of Wake County, North Carolina
- Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina
- 1869 establishments in North Carolina