Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in

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, United States. Notable interments include: * John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman *

Bibb Graves David Bibb Graves (April 1, 1873 – March 14, 1942) was an American United States Democratic Party, Democratic politician and the List of governors of Alabama, 38th governor of Alabama 1927–1931 and 1935–1939, the first Alabama governor to ...

, 38th Governor of Alabama * Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama * J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator *

Reuben Kolb Reuben Francis Kolb (1839–1918) was an Alabama politician. Kolb ran unsuccessfully for governor of Alabama thrice, in 1890, 1892 and 1894, first as a Democrat and then as a Populist. He also served as the state's commissioner of agriculture t ...

, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture * William R. Lawley, Jr., United States Army Air Forces officer and

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recipient *

Gordon Persons Seth Gordon Persons (February 5, 1902 – May 29, 1965) was an American Democratic politician who was the 43rd Governor of Alabama from 1951 to 1955. A relative moderate, Persons provided reforms to the state prison system, and limited po ...

, 43rd Governor of Alabama * John C. C. Sanders, Civil War Confederate Brigadier General *

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, 45th Governor of Alabama * Lurleen Burns Wallace, 46th Governor of Alabama, First Lady of Alabama

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* * * {{GNIS, 119382, Greenwood Cemetery Cemeteries in Montgomery, Alabama Cemeteries established in the 1900s 1901 establishments in Alabama