Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)
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| Elmwood Cemetery | |
| Cemetery Details | |
|---|---|
| Year established: | 1880s |
| Country: | USA |
| Location: | 600 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35211 |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Type: | public |
| Size: | 412 acres (1.67 km²) |
| Findagrave: | external link |
| Political Graveyard: | external link |
For other places with the same name, see Elmwood Cemetery.
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.
[edit] 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
- 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 - (1873-1927) - 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
- Lum Harris (1915-1996) - baseball promoter
- 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) - pioneer 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
