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The Oak Grove Cemetery , originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery , is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington , Virginia , less than a mile from the campuses of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute . The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020.[1] Governors of Virginia , and Margaret Junkin Preston , the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".[2]
The cemetery was first known as the Presbyterian Cemetery.[3] Lexington Presbyterian Church conveyed the cemetery to the city in 1949, the cemetery was renamed later that year for the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson , who was interred there after his death on May 10, 1863.[1] rename the cemetery in 2020 following the George Floyd protests ,[1] [citation needed
Notable burials [ edit ]
Jackson and his family [ edit ]
The plot of Jackson and his family received a sculpture of Jackson in 1895, created by sculptor Edward V. Valentine .[4]
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 (infant – 1858)
Julia Laura Jackson Christian (1862–1889) and her husband William Edmund Christian (1856–1936)
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Sr. (1888–1952): William and Julia Christian's second child, U.S. Army brigadier general
Cenotaph for his son Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr. (1915–1944), U.S. Army colonel, killed during World War II (believed buried at Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras , France)
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
John William Elrod (1939–2001): President, Washington and Lee University
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 (1846–51)
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
John Thomas Lewis Preston (1811–1890): Founder and organizer of Virginia Military Institute
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897): Called unofficially "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy"; daughter of George Junkin
Absalom Willis Robertson (1887–1971): U.S. Senator, father of evangelist Pat Robertson
George R. E. Shell (1908–1996): Ninth superintendent of VMI, Marine Corps Brigadier General
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
John Delane Wilson (1931–2013): President of Washington and Lee University (1983–1995) and Wells College (1969–1975); first Rhodes Scholar from Michigan State University and member of their national championship football teams
References [ edit ]
^ Lexington Presbyterian history Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
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"Lexington, Virginia" . civilwaralbum.com. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Grove_Cemetery_(Lexington,_Virginia)&oldid=1217751042 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● P r e s b y t e r i a n c e m e t e r i e s i n V i r g i n i a ● T o u r i s t a t t r a c t i o n s i n L e x i n g t o n , V i r g i n i a ● S t o n e w a l l J a c k s o n ● C o n f e d e r a t e S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a m o n u m e n t s a n d m e m o r i a l s i n V i r g i n i a ● C o n f e d e r a t e S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a c e m e t e r i e s ● N a m e c h a n g e s d u e t o t h e G e o r g e F l o y d p r o t e s t s H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● P a g e s u s i n g g a d g e t W i k i M i n i A t l a s ● W e b a r c h i v e t e m p l a t e w a y b a c k l i n k s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n i s d i f f e r e n t f r o m W i k i d a t a ● I n f o b o x m a p f r a m e w i t h o u t O S M r e l a t i o n I D o n W i k i d a t a ● C o o r d i n a t e s o n W i k i d a t a ● A l l a r t i c l e s w i t h u n s o u r c e d s t a t e m e n t s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h u n s o u r c e d s t a t e m e n t s f r o m D e c e m b e r 2 0 2 0 ● C o m m o n s c a t e g o r y l i n k f r o m W i k i d a t a ● P a g e s u s i n g t h e K a r t o g r a p h e r e x t e n s i o n
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