Historic Oakwood Cemetery
- Historic Oakwood Cemetery
Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, North Carolina near the North Carolina State Capitol. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains a special area within its convert|102|acre|km2, the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and one-half acres given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867.
Notable burials
*George B. Anderson
*Charles B. Aycock
*Josiah W. Bailey
*Thomas Bragg
*Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.
*William R. Cox
*Josephus Daniels
*Wade Edwards, son of John Edwards
*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
*David L. Swain
*Thomas F. Toon
*Berrian Kinnard Upshaw, first husband of Margaret Mitchell and possible inspiration for the character Rhett Butler.
*Jim Valvano
*Carle Augustus Woodruff
*Jonathan Worth
References
*Find-A-Grave.com. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28031146 Historic Oakwood Cemetery: Credits] . Retrieved Jul. 9, 2008.
External links
* [http://www.historicoakwoodcemetery.com/ Official site: HistoricOakwoodCemetery.com]
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