Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)

Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)

Infobox_cemetery
name = Elmwood Cemetery


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established = 1880s
country = USA
location = 600 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35211
coordinates = coord|33|29|19|N|86|50|46|W|display=inline,title
type = public
owner =
size = convert|412|acre|km2
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findagrave = [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=22674 external link]
political = [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF.html#R9T0WRDRE external link]

Elmwood Cemetery is a 412-acre (167-hectare) cemetery established in the 1880s (as Elm Leaf Cemetery) on the western side of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama by a group of fraternal organizations. It was renamed in 1906 and gradually eclipsed Oak Hill Cemetery as the most prominent burial place in the city. It has a chapel at 800 Dennison Avenue Southwest which was established in 1962 by the Lackey family for John-Ridout's Mortuary.

Notable burials

* Truman H. Aldrich (1848-1932) - U. S. Representative 1896-1897
* William Wirt Allen (1835-1894) - Confederate Major General
* Sydney J. Bowie (1865-1928) - U. S. Representative 1901-1907
* Paul W. "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983) - University of Alabama football coach
* Ben Chapman - (1908-1993) baseball player
* B. B. Comer - (1848-1927) - Governor of Alabama 1907-1911, U. S. Senator 1920
* Fr. James Coyle (1873-1921) - assassinated priest of St. Paul's church
* Russell McWhortor Cunningham (1855-1921) - Governor of Alabama 1904-1905
* William Henry Denson (1846-1906) - U. S. Representative 1893-1895
* Henry Eugene "Red" Erwin, Sr. (1921-2002) - World War II veteran
* Sam Hairston (1920-1997) - baseball player
* Art Hanes (1916-1997) - Mayor of Birmingham 1961-1963
* Luman Harris (1915-1996) - pro baseball manager (Houston Astros & Atlanta Braves)
* Frank O. House (1927-1989) - U.S. Air Force General
* George Huddleston (1869-1960) - U. S. Representative 1915-1937
* George Huddleston, Jr. (1920-1971) - U. S. Representative 1955-1965
* Patti Ruffner Jacobs (1875-1935) - social reformer
* Joseph Forney Johnston (1843-1913) - Governor of Alabama 1896-1900, U. S. Senator 1907-1913
* Eddie Kendricks (1939-1992) - singer, co-founder of The Temptations
* John W. Kirklin (1917-2004) - pioneering heart surgeon
* Dee Miles (1909-1976) - baseball player
* John P. Newsome (1893-1961) - U. S. Representative 1943-1945
* Luther Patrick (1894-1957) - U. S. Representative 1937-1943
* Sun Ra (1914-1993) - Jazz musician
* Rufus N. Rhodes (1856-1910) - founder of the "Birmingham News"
* Fred Sington (1910-1998) - football player
* Jesse F. Stallings (1856-1928) - U. S. Representative 1893-1901
* Oscar Underwood (1862-1929) - U. S. Senator 1915-1927
* Dixie Walker (1911-1982) - baseball player
* Frank S. White (1847-1922) - U. S. Senator 1914-1915
* Clarence "Yam" Yaryan (1892-1964) - baseball player


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