Boyington Oak, Historic oak tree at Church Street Cemetery, Mobile, United States

The Boyington Oak is a Southern live oak on Bayou Street in Mobile, Alabama, just outside the wall of Church Street Graveyard. Its single thick trunk forks into two large limbs high above the ground, and exposed roots spread at its base. A small metal sign stands near the trunk, beside a red wall and a low grey stone wall.

Charles Boyington was executed in 1835 for the murder of Nathaniel Frost, after declaring that a tree would grow from his grave. The oak that appeared at that location became a symbol of this case over time.

The tree's story appears in Kathryn Tucker Windham's "Jeffrey's Latest 13: More Alabama Ghosts", John S. Sledge's "Cities of Silence" and Nelson and Nelson's "A History of Church Street Graveyard". Local ghost stories hold that crying and whispering sounds come from near the tree.

The tree stands in an accessible location next to the cemetery in Mobile and can be visited during daylight hours. The site is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets.

The tree stands just outside the brick wall of Church Street Graveyard, on the edge of Bayou Street; the wall was moved back from the potter's field section shortly after 1900, leaving the oak beyond it. Boyington was buried in that potter's field corner after his hanging on February 20, 1835.