The Oak Grove Cemetery, originally known as the Presbyterian Cemetery, is located on South Main Street in downtown
Lexington,
Virginia, less than a mile from the campuses of
Washington and Lee University and the
Virginia Military Institute. The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020.[1] Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two
Governors of Virginia, and
Margaret Junkin Preston, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".[2]
Julia Laura Jackson Christian (1862–1889) and her husband William Edmund Christian (1856–1936)
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Sr. (1888–1952): William and Julia Christian's second child, U.S. Army brigadier general
Cenotaph for his son Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr. (1915–1944), U.S. Army colonel, killed during
World War II (believed buried at Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery,
Arras, France)
Benjamin Darst (1760–1835): Revolutionary War Soldier, noted Architect / Builder of Lexington Landmark Structures
John William Elrod (1939–2001): President, Washington and Lee University
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