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314 S. Main St., Lexington, Virginia 24450 Information at Lexington Visitor's Center Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery 314 S Main St, Lexington, VA 24450, USA Stonewall Jackson House, Visitor Center of Lexington, Lees Chapel, Lee Chapel & Museum |
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. Formerly known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, it was renamed for legendary Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who was interred here after his death on May 10, 1863.
Jackson and his family
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863): VMI instructor, Confederate Army lieutenant general, commander of Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Elinor Junkin Jackson (1825-1854): Jackson's first wife, died in childbirth; buried with their stillborn son
Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (1831-1915): Jackson's second wife
Thomas and Anna Morrison Jackson's two daughters:
Mary Graham Jackson (February 28-May 25, 1858)
Julia Laura Jackson Christian (1862-1889) and her husband William Edmund Christian (1856-1936)
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian (1888-1952): William and Julia Christian's second child, U.S. Army brigadier general during World War II
John White Brockenbrough (1806-1870): Federal judge, Confederate Congressman, founder of the School of Law at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)
John Mercer Brooke (1826-1906): Sailor, engineer, inventor, commander in the Confederate States Navy
Benjamin Darst (1760-1835): Revolutionary War Soldier, noted Architect / Builder of Lexington Landmark Structures
William Gilham (1818-1872): VMI instructor, Confederate Army colonel
George Junkin (1790-1868), Presbyterian minister and educator, President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), father of Elinor Junkin Jackson
Beverly Tucker Lacy (1819-1900), Presbyterian minister, chaplain of Jackson's Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Edwin Gray Lee (1836-1870): Confederate Army general, member of Jackson's staff
John Letcher (1813-1884): Governor of Virginia (1860-1864)
Charles McDowell, Jr. (1926-2010): Journalist, regular panelist on PBS series Washington Week in Review
James McDowell (1795-1851): Governor of Virginia (1843-1846), Congressman (1846-1851)
Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828-1863): Confederate Army general, commander of the Stonewall Brigade, killed at Chancellorsville
Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton (1840-1864): Confederate Army lieutenant colonel, member of Jackson's, Ewell's and Early's staffs, killed at Fisher's Hill
William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883): Episcopal priest, Confederate Army brigadier general, chief of artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, father of Sandie Pendleton
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897): "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy", daughter of George Junkin
Absalom Willis Robertson (1887-1971): U.S. Senator, father of evangelist Pat Robertson
Scott Shipp (1839-1917): Commandant of the VMI Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market, second superintendent of VMI
Francis Henney Smith (1812-1890): First superintendent of VMI, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia militia major general
William D. Washington (1833-1870): Painter, instructor at VMI
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