Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina)
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Oakdale Cemetery is a cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina that dates from the 19th century.[1]
Because existing cemeteries were becoming crowded, a group of citizens bought a 65-acre tract of land east of Burnt Mill Creek, east of the town limits.[1] The first interment was Annie DeRosset, age 6, on February 5, 1855. Her father, John DeRosset, was a physician and the first president of the cemetery corporation.[1]
The cemetery has an enclosed Hebrew Cemetery, dating from 1855, as well as a Masonic section, at least one section for Odd Fellows, a section where the burials formerly at Front Street Methodist church were moved after an 1886 fire and a section for those with no other family.[1]
Along with regular grave sites for Confederate soldiers, a great burial mound was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the dead Confederate soldiers from the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. Dedicated in 1872, a bronze statue of a regular soldier stands atop a large circular stone base. The dedication plaque reads,
"THIS MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED MAY 10, 1872 / TO PERPETUATE DEEDS OF THE BRAVE AND IN GRATEFUL / TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF 550 HONORED UNKNOWN / CONFEDERATE DEAD AT THE BATTLE OF FORT FISHER / WHO LIE BURIED HERE / SPONSORED BY THE LADIES MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION LATER MERGED WITH DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY / SELF DENIAL - WORK - PRAYERS - TEARS - HEARTS BLOOD / ENTERED INTO ITS BUILDING"
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According to the University of North Carolina, as many as 367 unknown dead soldiers are buried under the mound.[2]
- Henry Bacon (1866–1924), architect
- John D. Barry (1839–1867), Confederate Army officer
- Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867–1917), heiress and philanthropist
- Arthur Bluethenthal (1891–1918), football player and member of the French Foreign Legion
- Ann Preston Bridgers (1891–1967), actress and playwright
- David Brinkley (1920–2003), newscaster
- Elisabeth Chant (1865–1947), painter
- Thomas C. Darst (1875–1948), Episcopal bishop
- George Davis (1820–1896), Confederate senator and Confederate States Attorney General
- Adam Empie (1785–1860), Episcopal priest and President of the College of William & Mary
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813–1864), socialite and Confederate spy
- Sarah Graham Kenan (1876–1968), heiress and philanthropist
- William MacRae (1834–1882), Confederate Army officer
- Charles J. Mendelsohn (1880–1939), professor
- James Owen (1784–1865), U.S. Congressman
- Eliza Hall Nutt Parsley (1842–1920), founding president of the NC Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
- M. Warley Platzek (1854–1932), lawyer and New York Supreme Court Justice
- James F. Post (1818–1899), architect
- Thomas Settle (1865–1919), U.S. Congressman
- Alfred A. Watson (1818–1905), Episcopal bishop
- William H.C. Whiting (1824–1865), Confederate Army officer
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