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Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)

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Architect
  
Kessler,George

Area
  
17 ha

Year built
  
1872

NRHP Reference #
  
83001002

Phone
  
+1 816-213-4750

Added to NRHP
  
28 July 1983

Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)

Location
  
4900 Truman Rd., Kansas City, Missouri

Address
  
4900 E Truman Rd, Kansas City, MO 64127, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8AM–6PMThursday8AM–6PMFriday8AM–6PMSaturday8AM–6PMSunday8AM–6PMMonday8AM–6PMTuesday8AM–6PMWednesday8AM–6PM

Burials
  
William Rockhill Nelson, Jorgen Dreyer, Turner A. Gill, Arnold Sutermeister

Similar
  
Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery, Union Cemetery, Mt Washingt Cemetery, Floral Hills Cemetery, Sheffield Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

Contents

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.

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; sculpture by Jorgen Dreyer
  • 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 / stepfather was Jules Stein of MCA entertainment empire
  • John William Reid, Congressman
  • Frank Ringo, baseball player
  • William Warner, Congressman
  • John Woodward Jenkins, founder of Jenkins Music Company
  • Della Cochrane Lamb, a long career of church and community work
  • James Jordan Squier, Livestock, Capitalist, Banker, real estate

    • References

    Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri) Wikipedia
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