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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Selma Live Oak Cemetery
Selma Valley Creek Cemetery
Private or family
graveyards
Dallas County, Alabama
| Politicians buried
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Samuel W. Oliver (1796-1838) —
of Alabama.
Born in Charlotte
County, Va., June 8,
1796.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1821-28, 1831-36; member of Alabama
state senate, 1836-37; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1837.
Died in Dallas
County, Ala., January
18, 1838 (age 41 years, 224
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853) —
also known as William R. King —
of Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala.; Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April 7,
1786.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1807; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1811-16 (5th District
1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 5th District 1815-16); U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1819-44, 1848-52; U.S. Minister to France, 1844-46; Vice
President of the United States, 1853; died in office 1853.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Took oath of office as Vice President in Havana, Cuba, where he had
gone for his health; died the next month, at his plantation near
Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala., April
18, 1853 (age 67 years, 11
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
at Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Live Oak
Cemetery
Selma, Dallas County, Alabama
| Politicians buried
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William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853) —
also known as William R. King —
of Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala.; Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April 7,
1786.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1807; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1811-16 (5th District
1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 5th District 1815-16); U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1819-44, 1848-52; U.S. Minister to France, 1844-46; Vice
President of the United States, 1853; died in office 1853.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Took oath of office as Vice President in Havana, Cuba, where he had
gone for his health; died the next month, at his plantation near
Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala., April
18, 1853 (age 67 years, 11
days).
Original interment at a private or family
graveyard, Dallas County, Ala.; reinterment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907) —
also known as John T. Morgan —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Athens, McMinn
County, Tenn., June 20,
1824.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1876,
1900;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1877-1907; died in office 1907.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1907 (age 82 years, 356
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907) —
also known as Edmund W. Pettus —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Limestone
County, Ala., July 6,
1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; circuit judge in Alabama,
1855-58; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1897-1907; died in office 1907.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hot Springs, Madison
County, N.C., July 27,
1907 (age 86 years, 21
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Samuel Francis Hobbs (1887-1952) —
also known as Sam Hobbs —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., October
5, 1887.
Democrat. State court judge in Alabama, 1921-26; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1935-51.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died May 31,
1952 (age 64 years, 239
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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George Henry Craig (1845-1923) —
also known as George H. Craig —
of Alabama.
Born in Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala., December
25, 1845.
Republican. U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1885; U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, 1885; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1885.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., January
26, 1923 (age 77 years, 32
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Benjamin Sterling Turner (1825-1894) —
also known as Ben Turner —
of Alabama.
Born in slavery
near Weldon, Halifax
County, N.C., March
17, 1825.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1871-73; defeated,
1872; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1880.
African
ancestry.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., March
21, 1894 (age 69 years, 4
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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William Benjamin Craig (1877-1925) —
also known as William B. Craig —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., November
2, 1877.
Democrat. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1900; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1907-11; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1912.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., November
27, 1925 (age 48 years, 25
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson (1829-1895) —
also known as N. H. R. Dawson —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
14, 1829.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1860;
Speaker
of the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1880.
Episcopalian.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., February
1, 1895 (age 65 years, 352
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Hugh Shepperd Darby Mallory (1848-1920) —
also known as H. S. D. Mallory —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Talladega
County, Ala., February
6, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor of
Selma, Ala., 1885-87; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1904,
1912.
Baptist.
Scottish,
English,
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Honor; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., March
10, 1920 (age 72 years, 33
days).
Interment at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James Mallory and Ann Maria (Darby) Mallory; married, October
15, 1872, to Jacqueline Louisa Billingslea. |
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live Oak Cemetery.
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Valley Creek
Cemetery
Selma, Dallas County, Alabama
| Politicians buried
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Thomas Kenan (1771-1843) —
of Kenansville, Duplin
County, N.C.
Born in Kenansville, Duplin
County, N.C., February
26, 1771.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1799; member of
North
Carolina state senate, 1804; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1805-11 (at-large 1805-07,
5th District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11); member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1810.
Slaveowner.
Died October
22, 1843 (age 72 years, 238
days).
Interment at Valley Creek Cemetery.
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