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The Maplewood Cemetery was established as the town of Charlottesville's first official resting place for the dead in 1827.[1] However, its oldest grave marker is from 1777, which suggests that some graves may have been moved to Maplewood after the cemetery was opened. [1] The cemetery is a few blocks north of downtown, with the main entrance gate at 425 Maple Street. The 3.6 acre historic burial ground is bordered by Maple Street, Lexington Avenue, Taylor Street and 8th Street NE. The land is owned and maintained by the city of Charlottesville.[1] Among the burials at Maplewood are scores of noteworthy citizens who left their mark on the city. In addition, there are over 100 unmarked graves of civil war soldiers.[1]

Maplewood Cemetery
1938 Map of Maplewood Cemetery

Historic Residents

See also Category:People buried in Maplewood Cemetery

As of 1899, there were between sixty and seventy Confederate soldiers buried at Maplewood, among them field officers – Generals John M. Jones and A. L. Long. There are also a number buried at Oakwood.[2]In the first half of the twentieth century private citizens participated in maintaining the grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_Cemetery

List of notable interments and their families

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  • James L. Daniel, Lieutenant, Company B, Nineteenth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, killed in battle near Richmond, 1862.
  • Richard Thomas Walker Duke (1822-1898), U.S. Congressman. Elected Commonwealth attorney for the County of Albemarle, Confederate Colonel, member of the Virginia State House of Delegates.

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  • Charles J. Ferguson (1863-1888), Major League Baseball Player in the National League from (1884-1887).
  • Benjamin Franklin Ficklin (1827–1871), Noted for helping start the Pony Express. Civil War blockade runner for the Confederacy and once owned Monticello.
  • Job Foster, a New York native and performer in Robinson & Eldred’s Circus Company, was killed by an elephant while visiting Charlottesville with the circus in 1851.

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  • Brigadier General John Marshall Jones (1820-1984), U.S. Army officer and Civil War Confederate Brigadier General killed in action at the Battle of Wilderness at age 43.

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  • Louisa Paoli - Died December 22, 1898
  • Mosby Monroe Parsons (1898-1822, aged 43), Civil War Confederate Major General. He was born in Charlottesville, the son of Gustavus Adolphus Parsons, who was the last personal secretary of Thomas Jefferson.

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  • John Bowie Strange (1823-1862) was Colonel of the 19th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) on September 14, 1862.

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  • Fairfax Taylor, an African-American civil rights activist who lobbied for equality for newly freed black citizens after the Civil War. Father of James T. S. Taylor.
  • James T. S. Taylor (1840–1918), represented Albemarle County at the Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868. Born to free parents, Taylor served with the U. S. Colored Troops (USCT) during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Son of Fairfax Taylor.

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  • Annie W. Walker (1874-1960), first women candidate to run for a Charlottesville city office.
  • Maud Coleman Woods (1877-1901), the first "Miss America." Charlottesville native, daughter of attorney Micajah Woods.
  • Micajah Woods (1844–1911), served as the Commonwealth's Attorney in Charlottesville, Virginia for 41 years, remembered locally as the prosecuting attorney in the 1904 murder trial of former mayor J. Samuel McCue and as the father of Maud Coleman Woods, the first "Miss America".

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Map

Coordinates:Erioll world.svg.png 38°01′57″N 78°28′26″W / 38.032594°N 78.473846°W / 38.032594; -78.473846

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Charlottesville : Maplewood Cemetery." Charlottesville : Home. Web. 20 Apr. 2010. <http://www.charlottesville.org/Index.aspx?page=1566>.
  2. Web. Maplewood Cemetery And the Confederate Soldiers Buried There., Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, May 24, 1899, retrieved July 19, 2019 from University of Virginia Library. Print. May 24, 1899 page 1.
  3. Web. Buried in Maplewood, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 9, 1918, retrieved August 9, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. August 9, 1919 page 1.
  4. Web. Funeral Rites for Dr. E.M. Magruder, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 13, 1925, retrieved May 12, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. January 13, 1925 page 1.

External links

Official site