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Hilliard, Henry Washington b. August 4, 1808 d. December 17, 1892
US Congressman, US Diplomat. Served as a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Alabama's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1845 to 1851. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1836, United States Charge d'Affaires to Belgium from 1842 to 1844, and United States Minister to Brazil from 1877 to 1881. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Holtzclaw, James Thadeus b. December 17, 1833 d. July 19, 1893
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. At the start of the Civil War, he was a lawyer in practice when appointed a Major in the 18th Alabama Infantry. With the 18th Alabama, he fought at Corinth, Mississippi, Shiloh, Tennessee and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in July, 1862. In 1863, he was sent to the Army of Tennessee, was promoted Colonel and led a regiment at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia. After the fight at Chickamauga and siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he received a promotion...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Softening of the brain
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Houghton, W. R. (William Robert) b. May 22, 1842 d. July 30, 1906
Author. In 1912, "Two Boys in the Civil War and After," a book he wrote with his brother Mitchell Bennett (M.B.) Houghton, was published. The book is considered a great source of information on life during the War. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Lot 6, Square 41, Survey 3
Jones, Thomas Goode b. November 26, 1844 d. April 28, 1914
Governor of Alabama from 1890-1894. Confederate Soldier. (Bio by: Laurie)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Lawley Jr., William Robert b. August 23, 1920 d. May 29, 1999
World War II Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Colonel in the US Army Air Corps/US Air Force. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a First Lieutenant and as a Pilot of a B-17 in the 364th Bombardment Squdron, 305th Bombardment Group, 40th Combat Wing, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force for action over Liepzig, Germany on February 20, 1944. His citation reads in part "Enemy fighters again attacked but by using masterful evasive action he managed to lose them. One engine again caught on fire and...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Ligon, Robert Fulwood b. December 16, 1823 d. October 11, 1901
US Congressman. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Alabama's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1877 to 1879. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1849, Member of the Alabama State Senate in 1861, Candidate for Governor of Alabama in 1872, and Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1874 to 1876. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Lomax, Tennent b. 1820 d. 1862
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. A native of Montgomery, Alabama, at the start of the Civil war he was commissioned a officer in the Alabama Volunteers. Promoted Colonel in command of the 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment, he was immediately dispatched to Virginia. In May 1862, he was ordered to take his regiment to join Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's division at Fair Oaks Station, in Henrico County, Virginia, in an offensive against Federal Corps. On June 1, 1862, he received...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Nesbitt, Wilson T. b. 1781 d. May 13, 1861
US Congressman. Elected to represent South Carolina's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1817 to 1819. Also served as a Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives from 1810 to 1814.
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Oates, William Calvin b. November 30, 1833 d. September 9, 1910
Confederate Colonel of the 15th Alabama Infantry. His regiment led the charge that tried to flank the Union left at Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. His losses were staggering, including his brother Lt. John Oates, killed in the action where the Brigade marker stands in the advanced position today. Oates would write a book about the war, the strongest chapter about his attack on Little Round Top. U.S. House of Representatives 1880-94. Governor of Alabama 1894-98. U...[Read More] (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Patterson, Albert [memorial] d. June 18, 1954
Alabama Attorney General-elect. In Phenix City, Alabama, he and Hugh Bentley co-founded the Russell Betterment Association, whose goal was to bring honest government back to Phenix City and Russell County, Alabama, and rid the city of organized crime, which ran rampant from 1916 until 1954, earning the city a national reputation of "the wickedest city in America". Patterson was elected on a anti-crime platform and pledged to clean up Phenix City. On June 18, 1954, outside his Phenix City law...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Williams)
Cause of death: Assassinated
State Capitol Grounds, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: The monument was erected in 1958 by his son, then-Governor John Patterson.
Payne, Rufus b. 1884 d. March 17, 1939
Musician. Tee-Tot Payne was a Black street musician who taught a teenaged Hank Williams to play the guitar during the 1930's. He also mentored Williams on performing, advising him, "Keep the crowd's attention. When they start to slip, you're in trouble". Tee-Tot got his nickname - jokingly derived from "teetotaler" - from the mixture of tea and alcohol he always carried with him. He was a private person who didn't like his picture taken, and would give Hank his lessons under the high front...[Read More] (Bio by: Chuck Kearns)
Lincoln Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Persons, Seth Gordon b. February 5, 1902 d. May 29, 1965
Alabama Governor. Served as Governor of Alabama from 1951 to 1955. (Bio by: K)
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Pickett, Albert James b. August 13, 1810 d. October 28, 1858
Journalist, Writer. Albert James Pickett was the son of Anson County Sheriff William Raiford Pickett who migrated to Alabama territory in 1818. Popular writer for early Alabama newspapers, Historical Journals and Agracultural publications. Jacksonian Democrat and Episcopalian. Writer of the History of Alabama and Incidently of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest Period. Military Aid to Gov. Clement Clay in the war with the Creeks. He was buried on his Planatation "Pickett Springs" but...[Read More] (Bio by: K M)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Royal Air Force Memorial [memorial]
Located in the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, there is a plaque that signifies the burials of 78 officers and men of the British Royal Air Force and a granite cross among the graves. The monument was erected to the honor the RAF officers and men whom lost their lives while training during World War II in Montgomery, Alabama. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oakwood Annex Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Sanders, John Caldwell Calhoun b. April 8, 1840 d. August 21, 1864
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and at the age of 18 entered the University of Alabama, where he studied until early 1861, when Alabama seceded. Enlisting in the Confederate Guards or Company E, 11th Alabama, he was elected Captain on June 11, 1861. The 11th was ordered to Virginia and assigned on July 21, 1861, to the 5th Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah. By this time most of the army had left for Manassas and was engaged in the First Battle of Bull...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Section 3
Smith, Irene b. August 8, 1922 d. March 24, 1995
Journalist, Country Music Historian. She began her involvement with country music when she served as the booking agent for the "Drifting Cowboy Band," which was lead by her younger brother Hank Williams. In the very early days, she sometimes served as the band's back-up singer and ticket-taker. After Hank's death, she wrote for the magazine Country Song Round-up from 1955 to 1961. Maintaining a vast collection of memorabilia about her brother, she opened a museum in his honor in Nashville...[Read More] (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Annex Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Taylor, George Washington b. January 16, 1849 d. 1932
US Congressman. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Alabama's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1915. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1878. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Thorington, Col. Jack b. 1810 d. 1871
U.S. Mayor. Thorington was the second mayor of Montgomery, Alabama from 1839 to 1840. He served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Tyler, Robert b. September 9, 1816 d. December 3, 1877
Civil War Confederate Official. He served during the Civil War as the Confederate Register of the Treasury. The son of 10th United States President John Tyler, he worked as his father's private secretary during his administration. In 1839, he published the book, "Poems Comprising The Last Man; The Elements of the Beautiful and Death." As the Civil War began, he pledged his loyalty to the Confederacy. When Montgomery became the capitol, his daughter, Letitia, reportedly raised the first...[Read More] (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Square 27 Survey 3
Tyson, John Russell b. 1856 d. 1923
US Congressman. Elected to represent Alabama's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State Legislature, and State Court Judge.
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA

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