Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
It was formally organized in 1872 at 4900 Truman Road at Van Brunt Avenue and was landscaped by George Kessler. The first burial was in 1840.
Notable burials
Kansas City Mayors
* Edward Herrick Allen
* Thomas Bulene
* James Cowgill
* Webster Davis
* Turner Anderson Gill
* William S. Gregory
* Henry C. Kumpf
*Francis R. Long
*Edward L. Martin
*Elijah Milton McKee
Others
*Andrew Armour, Armour Packing executive
*Charles W. Armour, Armour Packing executive
*Kirkland B. Armour, Armour Packing executive
*Simeon Armour, Armour Packing executive
*Frank Askew, Civil War general
*Mary McAfee Atkins, donated money for the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art
*Sarah Barret, Sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln
*William Patterson Borland, Congressman
*Samuel Millard Bowman, Civil War general
*Theodore Case, founder of Kansas City Post
*Kersey Coates, real estate developer
*Abram Comingo, Congressman
*Milton Feld, Walt Disney cartoonist
*Hiram Fosdick Dovol, Civil War general
*Thomas Hackney, Congressman
*Morris Helzberg, founder of Helzberg Diamonds
*Annie Chambers, Kansas City's Madame
*Zerelda James, Jesse James wife (moved later)
*Robert Lee, member of the Wild Bunch
*James Johnson Lindley, Congressman
*Americus McKim, founder of Kansas City Unions baseball team
*Harold Oppenheimer, Marine Corps general
*John William Reid, Congressman
*Frank Ringo, baseball player
*William Warner, Congressman
External links and references
* [http://www.historickcelmwood.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=28590 Findagrave Profile]
* [http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/list.cfm?list=sub&SubjectareaID=204634 Kansas City Public Library resources]
* [http://www.topix.net/content/kri/0698284422276546930316775375421626469014 Kansas City Star article]
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