Oakland Cemetery Inscriptions (Partial) Fulton County, GA OAKLAND CEMETERY, Fulton County, Georgia (Hill Family Plot Only) Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Jacqueline Bower -- vixen1@gte.net Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA is considered Atlanta's richest historic site, having been established in 1850 and having served the city almost from Atlanta's inception. Almost everyone who died in Atlanta between 1850 and 1884 was buried in Oakland Cemetery. Many notables are buried there including Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With The Wind." It is preserved by the Historic Oakland Foundation which publishes a map of the very large cemetery and oversees the restoration and preservation of Oakland. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. You may write the Historic Oakland Foundation at 248 Oakland Avenue, S.E., Atlanta, GA 30312, or call (404) 688-2107. 15 graves total in the Hill family plot in Oakland Cemetary, Atlanta, GA Starting with Senator B. H. Hill of some fame in Georgia history. Benjamin Harvey Hill Born in Jasper Co. GA September 19, 1823 Died in Atlanta, GA August 16, 1883 Inscribed on the side of his marble tomb: "When too feeble to speak, he wrote the following: 'If a grain of corn will die, and then rise again in so much beauty, why may not I die, and then rise again in fertile beauty and life. How is the last a greater mystery than the first, and by as much as I exceed the grain of corn in this life, why may not I exceed it in the new life. How can we limit the power of Him, who made the grain of corn, then made the same grain arise in such wonderous newness of life!'" Caroline Holt Wife of Benjamin H. Hill Nov. 11, 1825 Feb. 21, 1904 Benjamin Harvey Hill, Jr. July 1, 1849 July 19, 1922 "Friend of the oppressed - just - scholarly - chivalric and true. He struck the discords from life's troubled music leaving only the melody of its golden strings." Janie May Hill May 7, 1874 Feb. 5, 1925 "My faith looks up to thee" Mary Emily Wife of Benj. H. Hill, Jr. Born Sept. 11, 1853 Died May 25, 1890 Harvey Hill Dec. 2, 1873 April 2, 1925 "Generous and sympathetic, loyal and courageous; His friends are legion" Mary Ridley Hill wife of Harvey Hill March 21, 1886 Feb. 25, 1973 Charles Dougherty Hill Nov. 3, 1852 Oct. 21, 1910 "Justice and mercy in perfect (balance?) constitute the ( ? ) power of his great official career." Carrie H. Hughes Wife of Charles D. Hill April 26, 1853 April 22, 1907 Emily Leila Ridley Born Dec. 2, 1851 Died May 22, 1883 Robert Emmett Mitchell May 14, 1853 Jan. 14, 1891 "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" Kate Carter Mitchell March 6, 1857 Sept. 13, 1935 "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (three infant/child graves too worn to make out complete names/dates) one infant and one three yr old next to Mary Emily. The first name of the three year old appears to be Charles. another infant grave between Kate C. Mitchell and Mary Ridley Hill. ========Some CSA soldier buried here=== Many of these men died in Gate-City Hospital in Atlanta. Baker, J.C. died 6/8/1863 at Gate City Hospital, Atlanta, GA 25th Alabama Infantry - Company F Freeze, B.F., died 4/21/1863 at Gate City Hospital, Atlanta, GA 25th Alabama Infantry - Company F White, Columbus C.- private March 10, 1862. Died in Gate City Hospital at Atlanta, Ga. May 4 or 12, 1862. Co F 43rd. Georgia Infantry Regiment JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA Clark, Sterling - private March 4, 1862. Died of disease in Gate City Hospital at Atlanta, Ga. June 1, 1862. CO C 42nd Georgia Infantry Regiment MILTON COUNTY, GEORGIA MILTON TIGERS RUGG Francis D. (enlisted, 11 March 62, Elba, AL, aged 33; in hospital, Medical College, Atlanta, 28 Feb- 1 Nov 62, and requested disability discharge; died in service 12 Oct 63, Gate City Hospital, Atlanta; deceased claim filed, Coffee Co., AL, 27 May 64, by Monday J. Rugg, widow) Co "A", 33rd AL Infantry Private William L. Thornley injured at the Battle of Stones River. He was taken to Gate City Hospital In Atlanta where he died prior to June 0f 1863(possible burial) "Felix Headstream" of Company K, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles buried in Section D, Row 6, Space 12. No date of death is presented here, but see entries in Appendices 1 & 2. A second name is listed on page 77 for this same space - "J. K. P. Searce" of the 37th Alabama Infantry who died on May 23, 1864. ============================= Dr. Robert E. Zaworski's "Headstones of Heroes: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" (Turner Publishing, Paducah, Kentucky, 1998). 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