Kensico Cemetery

Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (1.0 km²), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km²) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres (1.9 km²) in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Several baseball players are buried in this cemetery.

Main entrance

The Tower at the upper entrance

Mineola Lake

An elk statue

Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including the Russian-born Sergei Rachmaninoff, were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the Actors' Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.

Sharon Gardens is a 76-acre (31 ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 for Jewish burials.

Notable interments in Kensico division

• Richard Abbott (1899–1986), actor
• Virginia Admiral (1915–2000), painter and poet, mother of Robert De Niro
• Hadji Ali (c. 1887-92–1937), vaudeville performance artist
• Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), author and poet
• Glenn Anders (1889–1981), American actor
• Edward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresario
• John Emory Andrus (1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and U.S. Congressman
• Peter Arno (1904–1968), cartoonist
• Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actress
• Wendy Barrie (1912–1978), actress
• Ed Barrow (1868–1953), baseball manager and executive
• Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer
• Malcolm Lee Beggs (1907–1956) actor
• Henri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, creator of the Bendel bonnet
• Vivian Blaine (1921–1995), actress and singer
• William Blaisdell (1865–1931) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
• Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painter
• Paul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder of Bonwit Teller department store
• Evangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder, fourth General of The Salvation Army
• Herbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founder
• Sully Boyar (Irvin) (1923–2001), actor
• Martin Bregman (1926–2018), film producer
• Russ Brown (1892–1964), actor
• Billie Burke (1884–1970), actress
• Henry Burr (1882–1941), Canadian singer
• William J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actor
• John Call (1908–1973), actor
• Cheng Chui Ping (1949–2014), 'Snakehead', human smuggler
• Andy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball player
• Frank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actor
• Bigelow Cooper, (1867–1953) actor
• Harry Cooper (1904–2000), golfer
• Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals
• Cheryl Crawford (1902–1986), theatrical producer
• Milton Cross (1897–1975), radio announcer
• Edward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. Congressman
• George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), American author, writer, historian and lawyer
• Harry Davenport (1866–1949), American actor
• Olive Deering (1918–1986), actress
• William Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustrator
• Robert De Niro, Sr., (1922—1993), artist, father of actor Robert De Niro
• Peter DeRose, (1900–1953), Hall of Fame composer
• Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
• Lew Dockstader (1856–1924), vaudeville comedian.[1]
• Luigi Palma di Cesnola, (1832–1904) Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Arthur Donaldson (actor) (1869-1955), stage and screen actor
• Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), swing–era trombonist
• J. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), silent film director
• Sherman Edwards (1919–1981), Tony-Award winning composer and songwriter
• Angna Enters (1897–1989), entertainer
• Judith Evelyn (1909–1967), stage actress
• Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), opera singer
• Sid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player, father of Geraldine Farrar
• Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellist
• Ezio Flagello (1931–2009) opera singer
• Gloria Foster (1933–2001) actress
• Harry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of the Boston Red Sox
• Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), Hall of Fame baseball player
• Ulu Grosbard (1929–2012) motion picture and stage director, producer
• Marion Harris (1896–1944), American singer
• Valerie Jill Haworth (1945–2011), British actress
• Grace Henderson (1860–1944), actress
• Gustave Herter (1830–1898), furniture maker and interior decorator
• Al Hodge (1912–1979), actor
• May Irwin (1862–1938), comedian
• Danny Kaye (1911–1987), comedic actor
• Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), American actor
• Joseph Kilgour (1863–1933), Canadian actor
• Ruth Laredo (1937–2005), pianist
• William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), founder of Sarah Lawrence College
• Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politician
• Jeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852–1926), actress
• Joseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New York
• Cissie Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish–born actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillian
• Dorothy Loudon (1933–2003), Tony Award winning actress
• Mario Majeroni (1870–1931), Italian-born actor, nephew of Adelaide Ristori
• Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune
• Jack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer, and producer
• Claudia McNeil (1917–1993), actress
• Herman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. Congressman
• Anna Moffo (1932–2006), soprano
• William Muldoon (1852–1933), wrestler
• Allan Nevins (1890–1971), American historian and journalist
• Anne Nichols (1891–1966), playwright and screenwriter
• Carlotta Nillson (1876–1951), actress
• Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), United States Representative from New York
• Eulace Peacock (1914–1996), track and field athlete
• Ann Pennington (1893–1971), Ziegfeld actress
• David Graham Phillips (1867–1911), journalist and novelist
• Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviator
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer, pianist, and conductor
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter
• Jacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owner of the New York Yankees
• Soupy Sales (1926–2009), comedian
• David Sarnoff (1891–1971), broadcaster and head of RCA
• Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), American actress and vocalist
• Gordon Scott (1926–2007), actor
• Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) American singer and musician
• Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), American actress
• Richard B. Shull (1929–1999), American actor
• Ivan F. Simpson (1875–1951), Scottish actor
• Leo Singer (1877–1950), manager of the Singer Midgets vaudeville group
• Alison Skipworth (1863–1952), English actress
• Alfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central Railroad
• Howard Smith (1893–1968), American character actor
• Mildred Joanne Smith (1921–2015), American actress and educator[2]
• Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. Congressman
• Ellsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), American hotelier
• Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), actor
• Max Stern (businessman) (1898–1982), entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Lewis Stone (1879–1953), actor
• Oscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. Congressman
• Fay Templeton (1865–1939), actress
• Gertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), actress
• Benjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. Congressman
• Deems Taylor (1885–1966), composer and journalist
• Wen-Ying Tsai (1928–2013), American cybernetic sculptor
• William L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. Congressman
• Charles Weidman (1901–1975), American dancer and choreographer
• James E. West (1876–1948), first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America
• Spencer Wishart (1889–1914), American racecar driver
• William B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockey
• John North Willys (1873–1935), automobile manufacturer
• Charles E. Wilson (1886–1972), president of General Electric
• Francis Wilson (1854–1935), American actor
• Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), American theatre and film actress
• Herbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. Congressman
• Florenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932), producer of the Ziegfeld Follies
• Patras Bokhari (1898-1958), Pakistani humorist writer

Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division

• Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards
• Fred Friendly (1915–1998), broadcaster
• Philip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artist
• Robert Merrill (1917–2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera star
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), operatic soprano
• Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), writer, Holocaust survivor
• Murray Saltzman (1929-2010), rabbi, civil rights leader

Image gallery

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  Mayer tumulus
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  Egyptian Sphinx Tomb
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  The Kane Lodge sphere
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  Pinkney Pyramid
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  Mecca Temple
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  The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery
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  The Ayer statue
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  Grave of Lou Gehrig
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  The Friars Club Monument
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  Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with minaret
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  Daniel monument
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  The monument of Judge John Fitch
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  Amos Sulka mausoleum
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  The cemetery on the Metro North line

References

1. "Lew Dockstader, Minstrel, Is Dead. Famous Comedian Succumbs to a Bone Tumor at His Daughter's Home at 68". New York Times. October 27, 1924. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
2. "Mildred Hepburn Obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.

External links

• Kensico Cemetery homepage
• Kensico Cemetery at Find a Grave