Salem Cemetery (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

Salem Cemetery
Salem Cemetery
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Location	301 Cemetery St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Salem Cemetery is located at 301 Cemetery St. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is adjacent to the older God's Acre Cemetery of the Moravian Church.

Notable burials

• William Robertson Boggs (1829–1911), Confederate Army General
• Richard Thurmond Chatham (1896–1957), businessman, politician
• Thomas Henry Davis (1918–1999), aviator, founder of Piedmont Airlines
• Cornelia Deaderick Glenn (1854–1926), First Lady of North Carolina
• Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854–1920), Governor of North Carolina
• Margaret Nowell Graham (1867–1942), artist
• Gordon Gray (1909–1982), American politician, U.S National Security Advisor ^[1]
• John Wesley Hanes (1850–1903), businessman
• Rufus Lenoir Patterson (1830–1879), businessman, politician
• Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918), founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ^[2]
• Zachary Smith Reynolds (1911–1932), aviator
• Augustine Henry Shepperd (1792–1864), politician
• Florence Wells Slater (1864–1941), scientist and teacher

References

1. "Gray, Gordon | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
2. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Reynolds, R.J. #10628". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN   978-0786479924. OCLC   948561021.

• Rawls, Molly Grogan (2016). Winston-Salem's Historic Salem Cemetery. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press (Images of America). ISBN   978-1467115254.

External links

• Salem Cemetery at Find a Grave
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salem Cemetery

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