Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery
Coordinates: 37°46′50″N 79°26′43″W / 37.7805°N 79.4453°W
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Gravesite of General Jackson and his family | |
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| Location | 314 S. Main St., Lexington, Virginia 24450 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Website | Information at Lexington Visitor's Center |
| Find a Grave | Find A Grave |
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. Formerly known as the Presbyterian Cemetery,[1] it was renamed for legendary Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who was interred here after his death on May 10, 1863.
Notable burials
Jackson and his family
- Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863): VMI instructor, Confederate Army lieutenant general, commander of Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- Elinor Junkin Jackson (1825-1854): Jackson's first wife, died in childbirth
- Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (1831-1915): Jackson's second wife
- Thomas and Anna Morrison Jackson's two daughters:
- Mary Graham Jackson (February 28-May 25, 1858)
- Julia Laura Jackson Christian (1862-1889) and her husband William Edmund Christian (1856-1936)
- Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian (1888-1952): William and Julia Christian's second child, U.S. Army brigadier general during World War II
Others
- John White Brockenbrough (1806-1870): Federal judge, Confederate Congressman, founder of the School of Law at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)
- John Mercer Brooke (1826-1906): Sailor, engineer, inventor, commander in the Confederate States Navy
- William Gilham (1818-1872): VMI instructor, Confederate Army colonel
- George Junkin (1790-1868), Presbyterian minister and educator, President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), father of Elinor Junkin Jackson
- Edwin Gray Lee (1836-1870): Confederate Army general, member of Jackson's staff
- John Letcher (1813-1884): Governor of Virginia (1860-1864)
- Charles McDowell, Jr. (1926-2010): Journalist, regular panelist on PBS series Washington Week in Review
- James McDowell (1795-1851): Governor of Virginia (1843-1846), Congressman (1846-1851)
- Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828-1863): Confederate Army general, commander of the Stonewall Brigade, killed at Chancellorsville
- Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton (1840-1864): Confederate Army lieutenant colonel, member of Jackson's, Ewell's and Early's staffs, killed at Fisher's Hill
- William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883): Episcopal priest, Confederate Army brigadier general, chief of artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, father of Sandie Pendleton
- Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897): "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy", daughter of George Junkin
- Absalom Willis Robertson (1887-1971): Senator, father of evangelist Pat Robertson
- Scott Shipp (1839-1917): Commandant of the VMI Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market, second superintendent of VMI
- Francis Henney Smith (1812-1890): First superintendent of VMI, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia militia major general
- William D. Washington (1833-1870): Painter, instructor at VMI