Flushing Cemetery

Flushing Cemetery

Infobox Cemetery
name = Flushing Cemetery


imagesize = 300px
caption = The 9/11 Memorial at Flushing Cemetery.
established = 1853 [cite web|url=http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/flushcem/flushing.html|title=Flushing Cemetery|first=erpietri|publisher=Forgotten NY|accessdate=2008-05-28]
country = United Sates
location = Flushing, New York
coordinates = coord|40|45|6|N|73|47|58|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title
type =
owner =
size =
graves =
website =
findagrave = [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=64554 Flushing Cemetery]
political = [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU5.html#R9Z0ZVP8X Flushing Cemetery]

Flushing Cemetery is a cemetery in Flushing in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.

The cemetery is the final resting place for:
*Louis Armstrong, renowned musician and singer
*Bernard Baruch, financier, after whom Baruch College is named
*Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot
*Ellis Parker Butler, author noted for the story "Pigs is Pigs"
*Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
*Dizzy Gillespie, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters
*Hermann Grab, Bohemian writer
*Thomas Birdsall Jackson, United States Congressman
*Lemuel E. Quigg, United States Representative from New York
*May Robson, actress
*Vincent Sardi, Sr., founder of the famous Sardi's restaurant.

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=64554 Find-A-Grave internment info for Flushing Cemetery]
* [http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/queens/flushing.htm Interment data for Flushing Cemetery]


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