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Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)

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Architect
  
Major, Horace F.,

Area
  
10 ha

Phone
  
+1 573-449-6320

NRHP Reference #
  
06001335

Year built
  
1858

Added to NRHP
  
1 February 2007

Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)

Location
  
30 East Broadway, Columbia, Missouri

Architectural style
  
Romanesque, rural cemetery

Address
  
30 E Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203, USA

Similar
  
Ballenger Building, Columbia National Guard Ar, Second Baptist Church, Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel, Missouri - Kansas - and Texa

The Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri has been in use as a cemetery since 1820. The cemetery historically contains Caucasian, African-American, and Jewish (Beth Olem Cemetery, Beth Shalom Cemetery) sections. Located in the cemetery are a vernacular stone receiving vault (1887), and a Romanesque Revival style mausoleum (1911).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Notable interments

  • Philemon Bliss - Politician, Chief Justice, Educator
  • John William "Blind" Boone - Musician
  • Jane Froman - Actress and Singer
  • Odon Guitar - Soldier
  • William Wilson Hudson - Third president of the University of Missouri
  • Richard Henry Jesse - Eighth president of the University of Missouri
  • John Carleton Jones - Tenth president of the University of Missouri
  • John Hiram Lathrop - First president of the University of Missouri
  • Frederick Middlebush - Thirteenth president of the University of Missouri
  • William Lester Nelson - Politician
  • James S. Rollins - Politician and Lawyer
  • Max Schwabe - Politician
  • James Shannon - Academic
  • Willard Duncan Vandiver - Politician
  • Edwin Moss Watson - Newspaper Editor
  • Abraham J. Williams - Politician - Third Governor of the State of Missouri
  • Walter Williams - founder of the Missouri School of Journalism and twelfth president of the University of Missouri
  • References

    Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri) Wikipedia


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