About Live Oak Cemetery
Live Oak Cemetery is a cemetery near Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. It lies about 0.7 mi east of Selma. The grounds sit at about 135 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 17 notable people buried here, including William R. King, William Joseph Hardee and John Tyler Morgan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 121924. The nearest other listed cemetery is New Live Oak Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Miller's Funeral Service in Selma, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 93 cemeteries we list in Dallas County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 93 listings in Dallas County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Selma. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Live Oak Cemetery
Among them: 4 US representatives, 3 Civil War veterans, 3 US senators, 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 Mexican-American War veteran, 1 vice president.
- William R. King1786-1853Vice president of the United States from March to April 1853
- William Joseph Hardee1815-1873Confederate Army general
- John Tyler Morgan1824-1907United States politician and Confederate soldier
- Edmund Pettus1821-1907American politician
- Benjamin S. Turner1825-1894American politician
- Clara Weaver Parrish1861-1925Artist, author, designer for Tiffany Studios
- Catesby ap Roger Jones1821-1877United States Navy officer
- Samuel Francis Hobbs1887-1952American politician
- William Benjamin Craig1877-1925American politician
- Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson1829-1895Lawyer and politician of Selma, Alabama
- Kathleen Moore Mallory1879-1954Church leader
- Clinton C. Howard1884-1955American orthodontist
Show all 17 notable burials
- George B. Burns1843-1910American farmer
- James Harris Burns1807-18821807-1882
- John Fielding Burns1840-1905American planter and politician
- Rosa B. Deans1848-1880Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
- William Peck Parrish1860-1901American businessman
People whose Wikidata entry gives Live Oak 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
32.40526, -87.03288
What Live Oak 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
- New Live Oak CemeterySelma, ALCemetery0.8 mi
- Lincoln CemeterySelma, ALCemetery1.4 mi
- Elmwood CemeterySelma, ALCemetery2.2 mi
- Kings Bend CemeterySelma, ALCemetery2.4 mi
- Zion Church GraveyardSelmont-West Selmont, ALChurch cemetery2.7 mi
- Bethel CemeterySelma, ALCemetery3.0 mi
- Jerusalem CemeterySelmont-West Selmont, ALCemetery3.2 mi
- Fairlawn Memory GardensSelma, ALCemetery3.5 mi
- Henry CemeterySelma, ALCemetery4.9 mi
- Valley Creek CemeteryValley Grande, ALCemetery4.9 mi
Funeral homes near Live Oak Cemetery
- Miller's Funeral Service1.2 miFuneral home · Selma · (334) 874-9081
- Aubrey Larkin's Lewis Brothers Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Selma · (334) 875-7212
- Ashley's J.H. Williams & Sons Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Selma · (334) 874-8231
- Walker Mortuary1.3 miMortuary · Selma · (334) 874-4444
- Lawrence Brown-Service Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Selma · (334) 872-2301
- Selma Funeral Home5.4 miFuneral home · Valley Grande · (334) 872-0110
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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