Oakwood Cemetery


  • Type: Cemetery
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

Oakwood Cemetery is a group of five combined cemeteries in Montgomery, Alabama. Country music legend, Hank Williams, is buried at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1870/00/00 Col Joseph Benajah Bibb Died Joseph Benajah Bibb dies of tuberculosis in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr Bibb is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery.
1919/00/00 Zelda Fitzgerald Bride "the tombstones in the Confederate Cemetery at Oakwood" was "her favorite place to be when she felt quite alone." daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald The Ice Palace (short story)
1919/00/00 F Scott Fitzgerald Groom Early in their courtship, Zelda and Scott stroll in the Confederate Cemetery at Oakwood Cemetery. (On his last afternoon they walked, and she found their steps tending half-unconsciously toward one of her favorite haunts, the cemetery. - The Ice Palace) The Ice Palace (short story)
1933/08/27 Zelda Fitzgerald Family Suffering from "nervous prostration", Anthony Sayre Jr, brother of Zelda Sayre, kills himself by leaping from his hospital window in Mobile, Alabama. Mr Sayre is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, AL.
1953/01/04 Hank Williams In Memoriam Hank Williams is buried at Oakwood Cemetery Annex. The Grave of Hank and Audrey Williams is at 1304 Upper Wetumpka Rd, Montgomery.

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Funerary Cemetery
Funerary Grave, burial
Criteria Person
Sight Category Site
Area of Significance Social History




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