Historic Oakwood Cemetery

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Area 77 ha Added to NRHP 25 June 1974		Phone +1 919-832-6077

Location Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina Part of Oakwood Historic District (#74001380) Address 701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA Hours Open today · 8AM–5PMSunday8AM–5PMMonday8AM–5PMTuesday8AM–5PMWednesday8AM–5PMThursday8AM–5PMFriday8AM–5PMSaturday8AM–5PM Burials Elizabeth Edwards, Jim Valvano, Henry K. Burgwyn Profiles Facebook

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Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in North Carolina's capital, Raleigh, 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, 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.

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.

Lorenzo Charles

William Ruffin Cox

Josephus Daniels

Elizabeth Edwards, and son Wade Edwards monument created by Robert Mihaly

William G. Enloe

Daniel Gould Fowle

Jesse Helms

Robert Hoke

William Woods Holden

Cornelia Petty Jerman, North Carolina suffragist

Nell Battle Lewis

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

Carle Augustus Woodruff

Jonathan Worth

References

Historic Oakwood Cemetery Wikipedia

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