About Oak Hill Cemetery
Oak Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Talladega, Talladega County, Alabama. The grounds sit at about 584 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 11 notable people buried here, including Charles M. Shelley, Joseph A. Woodward and Thomas S. Plowman. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 162500. The nearest other listed cemetery is Needmore Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is S.M. Goodson Funeral Home in Talladega, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Talladega County, and 22 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Talladega. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oak Hill Cemetery
Among them: 4 US representatives, 1 football player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 World War II veteran, 1 writer.
- Charles M. Shelley1833-1907Confederate Army general
- Joseph A. Woodward1806-1885American politician
- Thomas S. Plowman1843-1919American politician
- Marcus Henderson Cruikshank1826-1881American mayor
- Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis1815-1903American author, diarist
- Samuel Wright Mardis1800-1836American politician
- Lewis Archer Boswell1834-1909American aviation pioneer
- Stanley R. Larsen1915-2000American military personnel
- Earl Wren1893-1932American football player and coach
- Hugh McElderry1859-1931Alabama lawyer and politician
- Thomas Young Abernethy1908-1968American journalist and teacher
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oak Hill 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
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What Oak Hill 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
- Needmore CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery1.5 mi
- Pine Hill Memorial ParkTalladega, ALMemorial park2.8 mi
- Thornhill CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery2.9 mi
- Midway Memory Gardens CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery4.0 mi
- Mardisville CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery4.4 mi
- Moberley CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery4.5 mi
- Stockdale Baptist Church CemeteryTalladega, ALBaptist cemetery4.6 mi
- Allen - Sims CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery5.2 mi
- Armbrester CemeteryTalladega, ALCemetery6.1 mi
- Seay Chapel CemeteryTalladega, ALChurch cemetery6.9 mi
Funeral homes near Oak Hill Cemetery
- S.M. Goodson Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Talladega · (256) 480-3177
- Usrey Brown Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Talladega · (256) 362-2344
- Cosby Funeral Home, LLC.1.1 miFuneral home · Talladega · (256) 362-0111
- Terry's Metropolitan Mortuary1.3 miMortuary · Talladega · (256) 362-2421
- Midway Memory Gardens Funeral Home4.0 miFuneral home · Talladega · (256) 362-8995
- Christian Memorial Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Pell City · (205) 338-4463
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