List of Oak Hill Cemetery burials

This is a list of Oak Hill Cemetery burials, listing the more notable figures among the approximately 11,000 people buried at the 21.5-acre Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham's Fountain Heights neighborhood. Oak Hill Cemetery was first used in 1869 was used in the 1880s as a pauper's cemetery by the City of Birmingham.

Academics and educators

• Lula Mehaffey Connell (1895-1988), educator, first female graduate of Howard College
• A. H. Parker (1870–1939), educator, namesake of A. H. Parker High School

Actors and media figures

• Lewis White (1932–2017), radio personality and educator

Artists, musicians and writers

• Julia Neely Finch (1850–1926), writer and poet
• A. C. Oxford (1835–1925), pioneering photographer
• D. C. Redington (1840–1900), photographer

Attorneys, bureaucrats and judges

• Peyton King (1826–1893), plantation owner at Avondale and attorney
• Alburto Martin (1830–1879), attorney and Birmingham founder
• William Mudd (1816–1884), attorney, judge, Birmingham founder, builder of Arlington
• Howard Yeilding (1899–1964), Jefferson County Personnel Board president

Bankers and financiers

• Rucker Agee (1897–1985), banker and map collector
• Henry Caldwell (1836–1895), physician, president of Elyton Land Company, banker
• Paul Earle (1839-1900), banker and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
• Christian Enslen, founded Jefferson County Savings Bank
• Eugene Enslen, president of Jefferson County Savings Bank
• Walter Henley, coal baron, banker, philanthropist
• T. L. Hudgins (1814–1888), merchant and banker
• Bertram Hudson, educator and banker
• Charles Linn (1814–1882), industrialist and financier
• William Pettiford (1847–1914), Baptist minister, founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank

Business executives

• Daniel Fulenwider (1834-1904), business owner and investor
• James Sloss (1820–1890), railroad magnate, founder of Sloss Furnace Company
• Horace Ware (1812-1890), ironmaker and industrialist
• James M. Ware (1838–1888), real estate investor
• J. B. Webb, owner of the Dude Saloon
• John Westbrook (1818–1888), merchant and real estate trader
• Frank Yeilding (1864–1948), founder of Yeilding's department store chain
• Peter Zinszer (1857–1895), merchant
• Rosa Zinszer (1857–1930), merchant

Clergy

• Luman Handley (1840–1910), Presbyterian minister
• William Pettiford (1847–1914), Baptist minister, founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank
• Fred Shuttlesworth (1922–2011), Baptist minister, Civil Rights Movement leader
• Robert Van Hook (1856–1893), founder of First Christian Church

Engineers and technicians

• William Barker (1829-1899), engineer who layed out the original plat of Birmingham
• Edward Erswell (1846-1910), carpenter and undertaker
• A. J. Hawkins (1886–1980), city engineer
• John A. Milner (1833–1909), cousin of John T. & Willis, engineer and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
• John T. Milner (1826–1898), railroad engineer, surveyor of Birmingham
• Willis Milner (1842–1921), engineer of Cahaba Pumping Station
• Edward M. Tutwiler (1846–1925), railroad and mining engineer, developer

Military personnel

• John Burford, Revolutionary War veteran
• Phil Finch (1876–1898), first member of Jefferson County Militia to die in the Spanish-American War
• Edmund Rucker (1835–1924), Civil War general, namesake of Fort Rucker, builder of the Walter Agee residence

Physicians and surgeons

• Arthur Brown (1867-1939), pioneering African-American surgeon
• Henry Caldwell (1836–1895), physician, president of Elyton Land Company, banker
• William Elias B. Davis (1863–1903), pioneer gynecologist
• Grace Hughes Guin (1912–2002), pathologist
• Mortimer Jordan Jr (1844–1889), health care pioneer
• James Luckie (1833–1908), physician and state senator

Politicians

• Frank Dixon (1892-1965), Governor of Alabama (1939-1943)
• Goldsmith Hewitt II (1834–1895), US Representative
• James Luckie (1833–1908), physician and state senator
• Frank O'Brien (1844–1910), manufacturer, mayor, industrialist, developer and opera-house owner
• William H. Smith, Governor of Alabama 1868-1870

Real estate developers

• Henry F. DeBardeleben (1840–1910), industrialist and developer of Bessemer
• Andrew Fulenwider (1860-1920), real estate executive
• James Going (1842-1910), real estate executive and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
• Andrew Johnston, railroad officer, industrialist, founder of North Birmingham
• Thomas Haynes Watts (1838–1879), developer of the Watts Building (1888) and Watts Building (1927)

Other

• Ellen Pratt DeBardeleben, daughter of Daniel Pratt
• Robert Green, Birmingham founder
• Emma Hawes (1859–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
• Irene Hawes (1882–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
• May Hawes (1880–1888), victim of the Hawes murders
• Robert Henley (1843–1873), First mayor of Birmingham, editor of the Birmingham Sun
• Richard Powell McAnally (1871–1928), first male child born in Birmingham
• Philip Mock (1881–1951), survivor of the R.M.S. Titanic
• Frances Nabers (1804–1853), farm owner, father of William Nabers
• William Nabers (1830–1918), Birmingham founder
• Thomas O'Byrne (1861–1913), liquor distributor, proprietor of the Peerless Saloon
• Thomas Peters, Birmingham founder
• James Roy (1836–1906), retired merchant and real estate investor
• Idyl King Sorsby (1862-1939), designer of the Flag of Birmingham
• Sylvester Steele, Birmingham founder
• William Walker Sr (1811–1890), pioneer farmer and merchant
• Margaret Ketchum Ward (1840-1919), called the "Mother of Birmingham"
• Louise Wooster (1842–1913), famed Madam and public health hero
• Benjamin Worthington (1814–1884), plantation owner, Birmingham founder

External links

• Oak Hill Cemetery website
• Oak Hill internments at Birmingham Public Library
• Oak Hill Cemetery at Find-A-Grave
• Oak Hill Cemetery at the Political Graveyard