Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)


Elmwood Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	4900 Truman Rd., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates	39°5′46″N 94°31′33″W / 39.09611°N 94.52583°W / 39.09611; -94.52583Coordinates: 39°5′46″N 94°31′33″W / 39.09611°N 94.52583°W / 39.09611; -94.52583
Built	1872
Architect	Kessler,George
NRHP Reference #	83001002
Added to NRHP	July 28, 1983^[1]

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

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^[2]
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

↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Peaceful piece of KC's past threatened". Kansas City Star. April 11, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2015.

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