Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

 located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...

. Still in use, it was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821. It was originally known simply as "The Graveyard" and later as "City Cemetery" before the present name was adopted in 1899. It is the final resting place of Confederate

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...

 generals, former governor

Governor

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s of Mississippi

Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...

, mayor

Mayor

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s of Jackson, as well as other notable figures, the most recent of whom is internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...

. The graves of over 100 "unknown" Confederate soldiers are also located here. Greenwood Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 and as a Mississippi Landmark in 1984.

The "garden park" type cemetery contains the largest collection of everblooming "own root" (not grafted) antique and modern shrubs roses in the country - several hundred shrubs representing over 40 named cultivars - as well as numerous hardy bulbs and other flowering shrubs and trees.

Notable interments

Confederate generals

• Daniel Weisiger Adams
  Daniel Weisiger Adams
  Daniel Weisiger Adams was a noted lawyer and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• William Wirt Adams
  William Wirt Adams
  William Wirt Adams was a United States district court judge for the state of Mississippi, a soldier for the Republic of Texas, and a Confederate officer and general in the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• William Barksdale
  William Barksdale
  William Barksdale was a lawyer, newspaper editor, U.S. Congressman, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War...
  
  
• Samuel Wragg Ferguson
  Samuel W. Ferguson
  Samuel Wragg Ferguson was a career United States Army officer, a cavalryman, and a graduate of West Point. He is best known as being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Richard Griffith
  Richard Griffith (general)
  Richard Griffith was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Savage's Station during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign...
  
  
• James Argyle Smith
  James Argyle Smith
  James Argyle Smith was an United States Army officer, and a graduate of West Point. He is known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War, his works in the educational system in Mississippi, and in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.-Early life and career:James Smith was born and...
  
  

Mississippi governors

• George Poindexter
  George Poindexter
  George Poindexter was an American politician, lawyer and judge from Mississippi.-Background:Poindexter was born in Louisa County, Virginia and was of Huguenot ancestry. He was orphaned early in life and had a sporadic education growing up...
  
  
• Abraham Marshall Scott
  Abram M. Scott
  Abram Marshall Scott was a Democratic Mississippi politician born in South Carolina .He was an early settler of Wilkinson County, Mississippi and was instrumental in founding the town of Woodville, Mississippi...
  
  
• Charles Lynch
  Charles Lynch (politician)
  Charles Lynch was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate and served in 1827 and 1832-1833. In July 1833, he succeeded Governor Abram L. Scott, who had died in office and remained so until the election of Hiram Runnels in November...
  
  
• Alexander Gallatin McNutt
  Alexander G. McNutt
  Alexander Gallatin McNutt was a Mississippi politician that served two consecutive 2-year terms as that state's governor, having previously served as a state senator .McNutt studied at Washington College and moved to Jackson,...
  
  
• Albert Gallatin Brown
• John Isaac Guion
• William Lewis Sharkey
  William L. Sharkey
  William Lewis Sharkey was an American judge and politician from Mississippi.-Biography:He was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, where he and his family lived until they moved to Warren County, Mississippi, when he was six years of age. In 1822, he was accepted into the bar at Natchez...
  
  

Others

• Edmund Richardson
  Edmund Richardson
  Edmund Richardson was an American entrepreneur who acquired great wealth during the mid-19th century by producing and marketing cotton in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas...
  
  
• James Henry Boyd
• Erasmus Bart
• R.H. Henry
• James Lynch
  James Lynch
  James Lynch may refer to:* James Lynch , Irish Roman Catholic archbishop.* James Lynch , Irish Roman Catholic bishop* James B...
  
  
• Eudora Welty
  Eudora Welty
  Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...