Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)

Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery[2] located at 4900 Truman Road at Van Brunt Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. It was formally organized in 1872 and was landscaped by George Kessler. The first burial was in 1840. Notable features include the Public vault and crematorium (c. 1897), Entrance Gate and Fence (c. 1900), Kirkland B. Armour Chapel (1904, 1917), and Cemetery Office (1925).[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

Elmwood Cemetery
Location4900 Truman Rd., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates39°5′46″N 94°31′33″W
Built1872
ArchitectKessler, George
NRHP reference No.83001002
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 1983[1]

Notable burials

Kansas City Mayors

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
  • Zeralda James, Jesse James wife (moved later)
  • Robert Lee, member of the Wild Bunch[4]
  • 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
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References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. Sherry Piland, Ellen Uguccioni, and James M. Denny (February 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Elmwood Cemetery" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-03-01.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes 11 photographs from 1982)
  4. "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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