Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, cemeteries, graves, fraternal organizations, clubs
Eight members of Tau Kappa Epsilion fraternity, using a variety of tools, clean-up Bellevue Cemetery at the Millican plot and the Carrie Russ Mercer (inscribed "in loving memory of our mother, May 14,1891- May 1, 1987) tombstone. Area around graves...
St. James Episcopal Church, Cemetery, Graves, Fourth Street
On the left side is St. James Episcopal Church Graveyard, the site of a 1787 duel between Samuel Swann and John Bradley. Note that the street’s paving material is brick.
Southwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Located on the southwest...
The cemetery, incorporated in 1872, is located on Princess Place Drive (formerly the Old New Bern Road), west of Burnt Mill Creek, and contains about fifteen acres. The date of the first burial is unknown, but by April of 1878, there appears...
Wilmington, New Hanovery County, North Caroilna, cemeteries, tombstones, 17th St. and Princess Place Dr.
The terrible state of the cemetery is evident by the tall weeds which hide many of the graves and keeps them from being tended to. Shows a variety of styles of markers. Only 2 names are legible: Westbrook and Castine.
The cross is over the grave of Nance Adams Martin, daughter of Silas and Margaret Martin, who died in Cardenas, Cuba, on May 25, 1857, at the age of 24. She was on a lengthy sea voyage with her father, who was a captain of a sailing vessel. After...
Inscription on the monument of an esteemed Wilmington lady: "Elizabeth Maund Andrews Widow of Edward Lane Robert Strange John Wilder Atkinson" The lady died August 24, 1915 at the age of 77. (Sec H, Lot #91)
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Grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813-1864), a Confederate spy, who was drowned while attempting to get into a life-boat of the Blockade Runner, Condor, in the ocean off Fort Fisher. Inscription on the stone: "Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, a bearer of...
Inscription on back: "Snakes, elephants, devils are on monument on left."
Oakdale Cemetery was chartered in 1852, when sixty-five acres were initially acquired. The cemetery was organized in response to a nationwide movement towards large...
Monument of Miss Lizzie Turlington, a Wilmington girl and deaf mute, who was murdered in Raleigh, NC, on 17 December 1886, by her fiance, also a deaf mute. Inscription on marker: "Murdered by W. L. Bingham." (Sec H, Lot # 64)
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Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, George Davis
The Honorable George Davis of Wilmington, was a distinguished lawyer and Attorney-General of the Confederate States of America. Inscription on slab: "George Davis, born March 15th 1820; died February 23, 1896. "Statesman, yet friend to truth and...
Monument is to Henry Bacon (1866-1924), who spent his childhood in Wilmington while his father, Henry Bacon, Sr. (1822-1891), was the chief engineer for the "Rocks", a Federal navigation project (begun in 1875) to close New Inlet near Federal...
The old caretakers' lodge with the mansard roof is to the left (looking northwest). Burials were first made in this cemetery, located on Market Street at North Twentieth Street, in February, 1867. It contains the remains of those Union soldiers who...
The Confederate Memorial Day observance was organized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Members of the Wilmington Light Infantry (WLI), Boys’ Brigade, the Spanish-American Veterans and the American Legion Auxiliary also participated in...
The cemetery borders the Carolina Heights area, an early Wilmington suburb. The rear of a residence appears on the right side of the photograph.
The old caretakers' lodge with the mansard roof is to the left (looking northwest). Burials were...
This monument marks the graves of over four hundred unknown Confederate Soldiers. The bronze soldier on a large pedestal was designed by William Randolph O'Donovan, sculptor, and executed by Maurice J. Power at his National Art Foundry in New York....
The Hebrew Cemetery at Oakdale is enclosed with an iron gate and fence and was opened on March 6, 1855. Prior to this time, Wilmington's Jewish community had to be buried in Charleston if they wanted to be buried in consecrated ground. At center,...