Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston, South Carolina)

Magnolia Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Vanderhorst Mausoleum
Nearest city	Charleston, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°49′6″N 79°56′32″W / 32.81833°N 79.94222°WCoordinates: 32°49′6″N 79°56′32″W / 32.81833°N 79.94222°W
Area	92 acres (37 ha)
Built	1850
Architect	Edward C. Jones
NRHP Reference #	78002502[1]
Added to NRHP	March 24, 1978

Magnolia Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.^[2][3] It was dedicated in 1850; Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address.^[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.^[1]

Notable interments

• William Aiken, Jr. (1806–1887), US Congressman, South Carolina Governor
• John Bennett (1865–1956), author and illustrator
• Thomas Bennett, Jr. (1781–1865), Governor of South Carolina
• William H. Brawley (1841–1916), U.S. Representative from South Carolina and United States federal judge
• Langdon Cheves (1776–1857), American politician and a president of the Second Bank of the United States
• James Conner (general) (1829–1883), Confederate general in the American Civil War
• George E. Dixon (1837–1864), Commander of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (1911–2001), author
• William J. Grayson (1788–1863), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Wilson Godfrey Harvey (1866–1932), Governor of South Carolina
• Daniel Elliott Huger (1779–1854), US Senator from South Carolina
• Horace Lawson Hunley (1823–1863), Confederate marine engineer, developer of early submarines
• Micah Jenkins (1835–1864), Confederate general
• Mitchell Campbell King (1815–1901), physician
• George Swinton Legaré (1869–1913), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Hugh S. Legaré (1797–1843), 16th U.S. Attorney General
• William Turner Logan (1874–1941), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813–1893), South Carolina Governor
• Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899–1954), US Senator, South Carolina Governor
• John Darlington Newcomer (1867–1931), American architect^[5]
• Josephine Pinckney (1895–1957), novelist and poet
• St. Julien Ravenel (1819–1882), physician and chemist
• Robert Rhett (1869–1913), U.S. Representative and Senator from South Carolina
• William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), poet, novelist and historian
• Charles Henry Simonton (1829–1904), Confederate Colonel and federal judge on 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Julius Waties Waring (1880–1968), United States federal judge linked to the American Civil Rights Movement.
• Richard Smith Whaley (1874–1951), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• British war graves of five Royal Navy and Merchant Navy personnel of World War II.^[6]

Gallery

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  Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina

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  Wm B Smith Monument, one of the most unusual and striking crypts at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina

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  Unknown Confederate States Navy Markers

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. McNulty, Kappy; Nenie Dixon; Elias B. Bull (August 23, 1976). "Magnolia Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
3. "Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston County (off U.S. Hwy. 52, Charleston vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
4. Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
5. "John D. Newcomer Found Dead at 64". Charleston News & Courier. December 31, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
6. CWGC Cemetery Report, details obtained from Casualty Record.

External links

• Magnolia Cemetery at Find A Grave