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Abercrombie, John b. May 17, 1866 d. July 2, 1940
US Congressman. He was elected to represent Alabama as an At-Large Delegate in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 to 1917.
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Alford, Julius Cesaer b. May 10, 1799 d. January 1, 1863
US Congressman. A lawyer and planter in Georgia, he commanded a company of infantry during the 1836 Creek War. He was elected as an At-Large Delegate to the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman George W. B. Towns, and served the remained of his term which was from January 2 to March 3, 1837. He unsuccessfully attempted to run for the seat again, but was successful in an 1838 attempt. He again served as an At-Large Delegate, serving...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Alford Family Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Barnett, Col. William b. March 4, 1761 d. April, 1832
US Congressman. Elected to represent Georgia as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1812 to 1815. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State Legislature.
Revolutionary Soldier

First wife: Mary Meriwether (1764-1805)
Second wife: Sally Smith Wyatt (? - 1826)

William Barnett, 1761-1832, was the son of Nathaniel Barnett, 1727-1829, of Amherst County, Virginia, and his wife Susannah Crawford. William Barnett, like his father and brother, Joel...[Read More]
Gilmer-Christian-Barnett-Cemetery, Matthews, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Belser, James Edwin b. December 22, 1805 d. January 16, 1859
US Congressman. Elected to represent Alabama's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1845. Also served as a Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1828, 1853, and 1857. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Blount, Winton M. b. February 1, 1921 d. October 24, 2002
United States Postmaster General 1969-1971. Mr. Blount, also known as "Red", played a lead role in transforming the United States Post Office Department into the independent U.S. Postal Service. He was the last Postmaster Genral to hold the cabinet level position title of Postmaster General. He was also a major benefactor of the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
Chapel of the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Brewer, Willis b. March 15, 1844 d. October 30, 1912
US Congressman. After serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced law practice at Haynesville, Alabama. He was a member of the State House of Representatives, 1880 to 1882 and 1890 to 1894. He served in the State Senate, 1882 to 1890 and 1894 to 1897. In 1897, he was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, serving until 1901. An unsuccessful candidate for renomination, he resumed the practice of law until...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cedars Plantation, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: family mausoleum
Chilton, William Parish b. August 10, 1810 d. January 20, 1871
US Congressman. CSA Congressman. Chilton served as a US Representative from Alabama in 1843. During the Civil War, he was a Representative in the Confederate Congress (1862-1865). (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Clanton, James Holt b. January 8, 1827 d. September 27, 1871
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was the son of Nathaniel Holt Clayton and a Miss Clayton. The family settled in Macon County, Alabama in 1835 and that is where he grew up and went to school. He enrolled at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but his higher education was cut short when he volunteered for the US Army in the war with Mexico. He enlisted as a private in Captain Rush Elmore's Company, Colonel Bailie Peyton's Regiment. After his six month enlistment, he enlisted with...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Cause of death: Murdered
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Survey 1, Square 9, Lot 3
Clopton, David b. September 29, 1820 d. February 5, 1892
US Congressman, CSA Congressman. He was elected to represent Alabama's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1859 to 1861. After his home state seceded form the Union and the Civil war erupted, he enlisted as a Private in the 12th A;abama Infantry, but rose to serve as it's Regimental Quartermaster for one year. He was then elected to represent Alabama in the Confederate Congress, serving from 1862 to 1864. After the was he served in the Alabama State House...[Read More]
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Dale, Samuel [cenotaph] b. 1772 d. 1841
War of 1812 Brigadier General.
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Fitzgerald, F. Scott [cenotaph] b. September 24, 1896 d. December 21, 1940
Author. One of the most celebrated of American writers, famed for his evocative stories of the 1920s. He is usually credited with coining the term "The Jazz Age" to describe that era, which he defined as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken". The implications of this simmer beneath the alluring surfaces of his fiction, where hedonistic youth and the idle rich party relentlessly to escape the moral and spiritual emptiness of their...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Fitzpatrick, Benjamin b. June 30, 1802 d. November 21, 1869
Alabama Governor, US Senator. Served as Governor of Alabama from 1841 to 1845. Also served as a United States Senator from Alabama from 1848 to 1849, 1853 to 1855, and 1855 to 1861, Democratic Nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1860, and Delegate to the Alabama State Constitutional Convention in 1865. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Fry, Birkett Davenport b. June 24, 1822 d. January 21, 1891
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was born in Kanawha County, Virginia. Educated at the Virginia Military Institute and Washington College, he entered West Point, from which he was dismissed for failure in mathematics. He then studied law, fought as a 1st Lieutenant in the Mexican War, emigrated to California, and was in cotton manufacturing in Alabama. With the beginning of the war, he was appointed Colonel of the 13th Alabama. Transferred to Virginia, he led his regiment at Seven...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Lot 6, Square 32, Survey 3
Gindrat, John b. 1777 d. March 29, 1851
Montgomery Mayor. He served as the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama in 1824 and 1834. He was also a banker and a member of the board of directors of the Montgomery and Chattahoochee Railroad Company. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Plot: Square 6, Scott's Free Burial Ground
Goldthwaite, George Thomas b. December 10, 1809 d. March 16, 1879
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Alabama from 1871 to 1877. Also served as Circuit Judge from 1843 to 1852, and Associate Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court from 1852 to 1856. (Bio by: K)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Goodwyn, Albert Taylor b. December 17, 1842 d. July 1, 1931
US Congressman, Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Elected as a Populist to represent Alabama's 5th District in the Fifty-fourth Congress, he served from April 22, 1896 to March 3, 1897. The grandnephew of Alabama's first Governor, William Wyatt Bibb, he attended the Academy in his native Robinson Springs and the South Carolina College at Columbia. When Alabama seceded from the Union in January 1861, Goodwyn enlisted as a Private in the South Carolina College Cadets; he participated in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Graham, Malcolm Daniel b. July 6, 1827 d. October 8, 1878
US Congressman. CSA Congressman. Graham was a member of the Texas state senate (1857) and a Texas state attorney general (1858) before serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He also served as a representative from Texas in the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Graves, David Bibb b. April 1, 1873 d. March 14, 1942
Service in the Alabama National Guard and United States Army along the Mexican border and in World War I, 1916-1919; Governor of Alabama, 1927-1931 and 1935-1939; husband of United States Senator Dixie Bibb Graves.
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Graves, Dixie b. July 26, 1882 d. January 21, 1965
President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1915-1917; active in the women's suffrage movement; appointed by her husband, Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, to the United States Senate; United States Senator from Alabama, 1937-1938.
Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Herbert, Hilary Abner b. March 12, 1834 d. March 6, 1919
Civil War Confederate Army Officer, US Congressman. Served during the Civil war as Colonel and commander of the 8th Alabama Infantry. His unit stormed Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, suffering heavy casualtie. (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA

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