Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its , the Confederate Cemetery,Raleigh’s Confederate Cemetery located on the original , and the Hebrew Cemetery, both given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867.
Notable burials George B. Anderson, Confederate Army general Charles B. Aycock, Governor of North Carolina Cora Lily Woodard Aycock, First Lady of North Carolina and President of the North Carolina Railroad Lucile Aycock McKee, president of the Junior League of Raleigh George Edmund Badger, U.S. Congressman Josiah W. Bailey, U.S. Senator John Heritage Bryan, U.S. Congressman William Horn Battle, jurist and law professor Kemp P. Battle, lawyer, businessman, and educator Thomas Bragg, Governor of North Carolina Carrie Lougee Broughton, North Carolina State Librarian Needham B. Broughton, temperance activist and political figure Henry King Burgwyn Jr., Confederate Army officer Lorenzo Charles, basketball player William Ruffin Cox, Confederate Army general Josephus Daniels, Newspaper publisher and political figure Elizabeth Edwards, attorney, author, and health care activistMonument created by Robert Mihaly – Chicago Sun Times: Credits William G. Enloe, businessman and political figure Thad A. Eure, political figure Daniel Gould Fowle, Governor of North Carolina Thomas Charles Fuller (1832–1901), Confederate politician and judge Winder Russell Harris, US Congressman Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator Robert Hoke, Confederate Army general Louisa Virginia Harrison Holden, First Lady of North Carolina William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina Cornelia Petty Jerman, North Carolina suffragist Nell Battle Lewis, journalist and lawyer Augustus S. Merrimon, U.S. Senator Bartholomew F. Moore, North Carolina Attorney General and legislator Dan K. Moore, Governor of North Carolina Jeanelle C. Moore, First Lady of North Carolina Cornelia Alice Norris, socialite, genealogist, and Regent of the Caswell-Nash Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Leonidas L. Polk, journalist and political figure Edwin G. Reade, U.S. Congressman Mishew Edgerton Smith, socialite William N. H. Smith, U.S. Congressman Willis Smith, U.S. Congressman David L. Swain, Governor of North Carolina Thomas F. Toon, Confederate Army general Jim Valvano, college basketball coach Miriam Carson Williams, first woman to serve as President of a U.S-based bank Carle Augustus Woodruff, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Jonathan Worth, Governor of North Carolina Martitia Daniel Worth, First Lady of North Carolina
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