About Magnolia Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery is a cemetery near Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. It lies about 1.8 mi northeast of Mobile. The grounds sit at about 30 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 42 notable people buried here, including Braxton Bragg, Arthur P. Bagby and John Gayle. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2579044. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Small's Mortuary & Cremation Services in Mobile, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 169 cemeteries we list in Mobile County, and 85 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Mobile County dates to 1848. 1 of the 169 listings in Mobile County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mobile. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Magnolia Cemetery
Among them: 9 US representatives, 8 Civil War veterans, 4 writers, 3 journalists, 3 Mexican-American War veterans, 2 governors, 2 physicians, 1 actor.
- Braxton Bragg1817-1876Confederate Army general
- Arthur P. Bagby1794-1858American politician
- John Gayle1792-1859American politician
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson1835-1909Author and Civil War nurse
- Josiah C. Nott1804-1873American physician
- Aubert C. Dunn1896-1987American politician
- John H. Kelly1840-1864Confederate Army general (184_-1864)
- Edmund Strother Dargan1805-1879American politician
- Robert Desha1791-1849American politician
- Sidney McCall1865-1954American novelist and poet
- Frederick George Bromberg1837-1930American politician
- James Hagan1822-1901Confederate States Army colonel
Show all 42 notable burials
- John Bragg1806-1878American politician
- Jones M. Withers1814-1890Confederate Army general
- Richard Henry Clarke1843-1906American politician
- Thomas H. Herndon1828-1883American politician
- Adley H. Gladden1810-1862American general
- Henry Hitchcock1792-1839American judge
- Percy Walker1812-1880American politician
- Peter J. Hamilton1859-1927American judge
- Anne Bozeman Lyon1860-1935American author
- Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy1839-1900American author
- Osbert Edwin Williams, Jr.1875-1917American aviator
- Richard Hooker Wilmer1816-1900Bishop of Alabama
- Robert Hardy Smith1813-1878American politician
- Thomas Cooper de Leon1839-1914American journalist, author, and playwright
- Frederick Ingate Thompson1875-1952American politician
- Rudolph Benz1847-1906American architect
- Bessie Morse Bellingrath1878-1943American philanthropist
- Clarence Louis Adrian Ingate1869-1899United States military officer
- Doris Marie Bender1911-1991Social worker
- George Vidmer1871-1952American military officer
- Gerald St. C. Mickle1899-1972
- Joseph Hodgson1838-1913American journalist
- Joseph Jefferson II1804-1842American actor and scene designer
- Oliver John Semmes1839-1918American judge; officer in the Confederate States Army
- Sarah Ann Haynsworth Gayle1804-1835Diarist who kept a journal from 1827 to 1835
- Daniel Holbrook Gillette1813-1845
- George Augustus Ketchum1825-1906American physician
- Maria Jane Pope1818-1857
- Richards Vidmer1898-1978American sportswriter
- Willey Shields Ketchum1823-1894
People whose Wikidata entry gives Magnolia Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
30.67543, -88.06465
What Magnolia Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
Funeral homes near Magnolia Cemetery
- Small's Mortuary & Cremation Services0.8 miCremation provider · Mobile · (251) 431-0559
- Heritage Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Mobile · (251) 525-9000
- Tri State Mortuary0.8 miMortuary · Mobile
- Smith's Mortuary0.9 miMortuary · Mobile · (251) 345-4300
- Hodge's Chapel LLC.1.5 miFuneral home · Mobile
- Christian Benevolent Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Mobile · (251) 432-6528
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