Civil War | Cemetery
Old Live Oak Cemetery
Alabama
300 Dallas Avenue
Selma, AL 36701
United States
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This cemetery is the site of the graves of Confederate soldiers and prominent Selma residents. Features a statue of Elodie B. Todd, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln; mausoleum of Vice President William Rufus King; and grave of Benjamin Sterling Turner, the former slave who went on to become the first African-American U.S. congressman from Alabama.
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