Live Oak Cemetery
East portion reserved for graveyard, 1829; west part purchased City of Selma, 1877.
Here are buried:
William Rufus King, 1786-1853, Vice President of U.S. 1853.
John Tyler Morgan, 1824-1907, U.S. Senator, Brig. Gen. C.S.A.
Edmund Winston Pettus, 1821-1907, U.S. Senator, Brig. Gen. C.S.A.
Nathaniel H. R. Dawson, 1829-1895, U.S. Commissioner of Education.
William J. Hardee, 1815-1873, Lt. Gen. C.S.A., author “Hardee’s Tactics.”
Catesby ap Roger Jones, 1821-1877, Commander C.S.N., commanded Virginia (Merrimac) in battle with Monitor 1862.
Robert W. Barnwell, 1849-1902, Episcopal Bishop of Alabama.
Marker is on Kings Street south of Dallas Avenue (State Highway 22), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
