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This is a list of notable burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
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This is a list of notable burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Charles Morris was a United States naval officer and administrator whose service extended through the first half of the 19th century.
Lorenzo Thomas was an American officer in the United States Army who was Adjutant General of the Army at the beginning of the American Civil War. After the war, he was appointed temporary Secretary of War by U.S. President Andrew Johnson, precipitating Johnson's impeachment.
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Poor was a U.S. Navy officer of the mid-19th century.
Alexander Britton Hume Jr., known as Sandy Hume, was an American journalist. He worked for The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C. He was the son of Brit Hume and Clare Jacobs Stoner.
Joseph Pannell Taylor was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He was the younger brother of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States.
William Beans Magruder (1810–1869) was a prominent physician and the seventeenth Mayor of Washington City, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1858.
George Beall, Jr. was a wealthy landowner in Maryland and Georgetown in what is now Washington, D.C. He was the son of George Beall, Sr. (1695-1780) and Elizabeth Brooke (1699-1748), and the grandson of Col. Ninian Beall (1625-1717) and Ruth Moore (1651-1712). George Beall married Elizabeth Magruder.
Lily Mackall was a messenger for Rose Greenhow, a Confederate spy during the American Civil War. Arrested with Greenhow, they were held under house arrest, although Mackall was allowed to leave freely and used this to smuggle out some of the most sensitive documents in her shoes. The pair were then confined in a single room, along with Greenhow's daughter. Greenhow noted that during this time, she and Mackall were "like Siamese twins, inseparable". On September 25, 1861, Mackall was ordered out of the house and prohibited from returning, on the direct orders of Allan Pinkerton; she fell ill in October, and eventually died, with Greenhow being prohibited from seeing her. She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Aristides J. Welch was an American Thoroughbred racehorse breeder.
Andrew Wylie was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Howard Cornelius Wall was an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played in one game for the 1873 Washington Blue Legs of the National Association. At 18, Wall was the fourth-youngest player in the National Association. He played his lone game on September 13, and collected one hit in three at bats for a .333 batting average. Wall died at the age of 54 in his hometown of Washington, D.C., and is interred at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Walter T. Skallerup Jr. (1921-1987) was an American lawyer who served in various roles at the United States Department of Defense, most notably as General Counsel of the Navy from 1981 until his death in 1987.
Richard Thomas Merrick was a lawyer and Democratic political figure.
Benjamin F. Pleasants was an American government official who served as acting Solicitor of the United States Treasury. He was also the son in law of John Adair.
Maxwell Van Zandt Woodhull was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.
Alexander Macomb Mason (1841–1897), also known as Mason Bey, was an American naval officer, mercenary, explorer and diplomat. He was the grandson of General Alexander Macomb and great-grandson of George Mason. Born in Washington, DC, to a family with many professional officers in the United States Army and United States Navy, Mason served as a teenager aboard the frigate USS Niagara when that ship laid the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858. Mason then studied for three years at the United States Naval Academy before resigning in April 1861 to join the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. His wartime career included participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Battle of Drewy's Bluff, and the blockade of Charleston. During 1863 and 1864 he traveled in England and France, serving briefly as private secretary to his uncle James Murray Mason. Captured at the Battle of Sailor's Creek in April 1865, Mason was imprisoned first at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC and then at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio.
Georgetown Female Seminary was an American school for young women located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Brevet Captain George Washington Roosevelt, received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the American Civil War.
John Watkinson Douglass (1827–1909), was an American politician who served as the 6th president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia from 1889 to 1893 and as the 7th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1871 to 1875. Prior to that, he was the acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1870 to 1871.
George Washington Montgomery, or Jorge Montgomery was an American Spanish-born writer, translator and diplomat.