Notable Burials
- Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet
- Middleton Barnwell, bishop
- Edythe Chapman, actress
- Hugh W. Mercer, Civil War Army officer and Confederate general
- Johnny Mercer, singer/songwriter
- James Neill, actor
- Edward Telfair, governor
- Jack Leigh, photographer, author
- Claudius Charles Wilson (1831–1863), Civil War Confederate brigadier General
- Bartholomew Zouberbuhler (1719–1766), minister
- John Allen Croskeys Royall (1860–1959), president, New England Oil Company
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