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Oakdale Cemetery
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Oakdale Cemetery was Wilmington's first municipal burial ground. Chartered in 1852 and opened in 1855 this landscaped 165-acre Victorian-era burying ground contains graves of many of the famous and not so famous. Oakdale contains graves of approximately 400 unknown Confederate soldiers that were reinterred to this cemetery. The Confederate Memorial Monument is located in Oakdale Cemetery. Amid the monuments lies a open field with no markers that is the mass grave of hundreds of victims of the yellow fever epidemic in 1862.
At the cemetery office, you can pick up a free map detailing some of the more interesting interments. The cemetery is open from 8 AM to 5 PM daily. Oakdale Cemetery office hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 AM to noon and 1 to 4:30 PM. Admission is free.
The architecture of the monuments, the Victorian landscaping make Oakdale a beautiful cemetery.
Wilmington
New Hanover County
520 N. 15th St., Wilmington
North Carolina USA
(910) 762-5682
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Bacon, Henry B. | Nov. 28, 1866 | Feb. 16, 1924 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Barry, John Decatur | Jun. 21, 1839 | Mar. 24, 1867 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Bellamy, Eliza McIlhenny | Aug. 6, 1821 | Oct. 18, 1907 | Shared stone with John Dillard Bellamy, M.D. |
| Bellamy, John Dillard | Mar. 24, 1854 | Sep. 25, 1942 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Bellamy, John Dillard, M.D. | Sep. 18, 1817 | Aug. 30, 1896 | Shared stone with Eliza McIlhenny, his wife |
| Brinkley, David | Jul. 18, 1920 | Jun. 11, 2003 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Davis, George | Mar. 1, 1820 | Feb. 23, 1896 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Dudley, Edward Bishop | Dec. 15, 1789 | Oct. 30, 1855 | Whig. Shipbuilder; planter; member of NC house of commons; US Representaative from NC 5th Dist. 1829-1831; Governor of NC 1836-1841. (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Greenhow (O;Neale) Rose (Maria Rosetta) | 1814 | Sep. 30, 1864 | A Confederate courier who drowned while running the blockade at Fort Fisher in 1864. (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Lennon, Alton Asa | Aug. 17, 1906 | Dec. 28, 1986 | Born in Wilminton, New Hanover Co., NC. State Court judge in NC 1934-1942; member of NC state senate; 1947, 1951; US Senator from NC, 1953-1954; US Representative from NC 7th Dist. 1957-1973. (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| MacRae, William | Sep. 9, 1834 | February 11, 1882 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Martin, Nance | 1857 | died at sea in 1857, her body was preserved seated in a chair in a large cask of rum. Six months later she was interred at Oakdale Cemetery, cask and all. (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) | |
| Owen, James | Dec. 7, 1784 | Sept, 4, 1865 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Settle, Thomas | Mar. 10, 1865 | Jan. 20, 1919 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Sprunt, James Sprunt | Jun. 9, 1846 | Jul. 9, 1924 | Born in Glasgow, Scotland. (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Waddell, Alfred Moore | Sep. 16, 1834 | Mar. 17, 1912 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
| Whiting, William Henry Chase | Mar. 22, 1824 | Mar. 10, 1865 | (Submitted by Jo Ann Scott ) |
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