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* [[Henry Caldwell]] (1836–1895), physician, president of [[Elyton Land Company]], banker | * [[Henry Caldwell]] (1836–1895), physician, president of [[Elyton Land Company]], banker | ||
* [[William Elias B. Davis]] (1863–1903), pioneer gynecologist | * [[William Elias B. Davis]] (1863–1903), pioneer gynecologist | ||
* [[Grace Hughes Guin]] (1912–2002), pathologist | |||
* [[Mortimer Jordan Jr]] (1844–1889), health care pioneer | * [[Mortimer Jordan Jr]] (1844–1889), health care pioneer | ||
* [[James Luckie]] (1833–1908), physician and state senator | * [[James Luckie]] (1833–1908), physician and state senator |
Revision as of 16:45, 4 November 2023
This is a list of Oak Hill Cemetery burials, listing the more notable figures among the approximately 8,660 people buried at the 21.5-acre Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham's Fountain Heights neighborhood. Oak Hill Cemetery was first used in 1869 was used in the 1880s as a pauper's cemetery by the City of Birmingham.
Academics and educators
- Lula Mehaffey Connell (1895-1988), educator, first female graduate of Howard College
- A. H. Parker (1870–1939), educator, namesake of A. H. Parker High School
Actors and media figures
- Lewis White (1932–2017), radio personality and educator
Artists, musicians and writers
- Julia Neely Finch (1850–1926), writer and poet
- A. C. Oxford (1835–1925), pioneering photographer
- D. C. Redington (1840–1900), photographer
Athletes and coaches
Attorneys, bureaucrats and judges
- Peyton King (1826–1893), plantation owner at Avondale and attorney
- Alburto Martin (1830–1879), attorney and Birmingham founder
- William Mudd (1816–1884), attorney, judge, Birmingham founder, builder of Arlington
- Howard Yeilding (1899–1964), Jefferson County Personnel Board president
Bankers and financiers
- Rucker Agee (1897–1985), banker and map collector
- Henry Caldwell (1836–1895), physician, president of Elyton Land Company, banker
- Paul Earle (1839-1900), banker and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
- Christian Enslen, founded Jefferson County Savings Bank
- Eugene Enslen, president of Jefferson County Savings Bank
- Walter Henley, coal baron, banker, philanthropist
- T. L. Hudgins (1814–1888), merchant and banker
- Bertram Hudson, educator and banker
- Charles Linn (1814–1882), industrialist and financier
- William Pettiford (1847–1914), Baptist minister, founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank
Business executives
- Daniel Fulenwider (1834-1904), business owner and investor
- James Sloss (1820–1890), railroad magnate, founder of Sloss Furnace Company
- Horace Ware (1812-1890), ironmaker and industrialist
- James M. Ware (1838–1888), real estate investor
- J. B. Webb, owner of the Dude Saloon
- John Westbrook (1818–1888), merchant and real estate trader
- Frank Yeilding (1864–1948), founder of Yeilding's department store chain
- Peter Zinszer (1857–1895), merchant
- Rosa Zinszer (1857–1930), merchant
Clergy
- Luman Handley (1840–1910), Presbyterian minister
- William Pettiford (1847–1914), Baptist minister, founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank
- Fred Shuttlesworth (1922–2011), Baptist minister, Civil Rights Movement leader
- Robert Van Hook (1856–1893), founder of First Christian Church
Engineers and technicians
- William Barker (1829-1899), engineer who layed out the original plat of Birmingham
- Edward Erswell (1846-1910), carpenter and undertaker
- A. J. Hawkins (1886–1980), city engineer
- John A. Milner (1833–1909), cousin of John T. & Willis, engineer and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
- John T. Milner (1826–1898), railroad engineer, surveyor of Birmingham
- Willis Milner (1842–1921), engineer of Cahaba Pumping Station
- Edward M. Tutwiler (1846–1925), railroad and mining engineer, developer
Military personnel
- John Burford, Revolutionary War veteran
- Phil Finch (1876–1898), first member of Jefferson County Militia to die in the Spanish-American War
- Edmund Rucker (1835–1924), Civil War general, namesake of Fort Rucker, builder of the Walter Agee residence
Physicians and surgeons
- Arthur Brown (1867-1939), pioneering African-American surgeon
- Henry Caldwell (1836–1895), physician, president of Elyton Land Company, banker
- William Elias B. Davis (1863–1903), pioneer gynecologist
- Grace Hughes Guin (1912–2002), pathologist
- Mortimer Jordan Jr (1844–1889), health care pioneer
- James Luckie (1833–1908), physician and state senator
Politicians
- Frank Dixon (1892-1965), Governor of Alabama (1939-1943)
- Goldsmith Hewitt II (1834–1895), US Representative
- James Luckie (1833–1908), physician and state senator
- Frank O'Brien (1844–1910), manufacturer, mayor, industrialist, developer and opera-house owner
- William H. Smith, Governor of Alabama 1868-1870
Real estate developers
- Henry F. DeBardeleben (1840–1910), industrialist and developer of Bessemer
- Andrew Fulenwider (1860-1920), real estate executive
- James Going (1842-1910), real estate executive and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
- Andrew Johnston, railroad officer, industrialist, founder of North Birmingham
- Thomas Haynes Watts (1838–1879), developer of the Watts Building (1888) and Watts Building (1927)
Other
- Ellen Pratt DeBardeleben, daughter of Daniel Pratt
- Robert Green, Birmingham founder
- Emma Hawes (1859–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
- Irene Hawes (1882–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
- May Hawes (1880–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
- Robert Henley (1843–1873), First mayor of Birmingham, editor of the Birmingham Sun
- Richard Powell McAnally (1871–1928), first male child born in Birmingham
- Philip Mock (1881–1951), survivor of the R.M.S. Titanic
- Frances Nabers (1804–1853), farm owner, father of William Nabers
- William Nabers (1830–1918), Birmingham founder
- Thomas O'Byrne (1861–1913), liquor distributor, proprietor of the Peerless Saloon
- Thomas Peters, Birmingham founder
- Idyl King Sorsby (1862-1939), designer of the Flag of Birmingham
- Sylvester Steele, Birmingham founder
- William Walker Sr (1811–1890), pioneer farmer and merchant
- Margaret Ketchum Ward (1840-1919), called the "Mother of Birmingham"
- Louise Wooster (1842–1913), famed Madam and public health hero
- Benjamin Worthington (1814–1884), plantation owner, Birmingham founder
External links
- Oak Hill Cemetery website
- Oak Hill internments at Birmingham Public Library
- Oak Hill Cemetery at Find-A-Grave
- Oak Hill Cemetery at the Political Graveyard