Biographical information about noteworthy and outstanding Cemetery residents
Cemetery Personalities
Our official list of the Cemetery’s most noteworthy and outstanding inhabitants
Charles Fuqua “Charley” Hurt (1931–2016)
Cemetery board member and engineer for construction projects 1997–2006
Pleasant Labby (1792–1869)
Tobacconist, mayor, and Lynchburg’s first Universalist preacher
Caroline F. R. Morford Morgan (1805-1883)
The definitive biography of a Lynchburg woman truly ahead of her time
Virginia Marie Cabell Randolph (1876–1962)
Teacher, community leader, and founder of “Lynchburg’s Hull House”
Parks Holman Snead, Jr. (1931–2017)
Longtime Cemetery architect, volunteer, and board member
Phillip Pleasant Whiteley (c.1845-1937)
The only known Cemetery resident who joined the Union Army during the Civil War by escaping from slavery
