Flushing Cemetery
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| Flushing Cemetery | |
 The 9/11 Memorial at Flushing Cemetery. |
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| Cemetery Details | |
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| Year established: | 1853[1] |
| Country: | United Sates |
| Location: | Flushing, New York |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Findagrave: | Flushing Cemetery |
| Political Graveyard: | Flushing Cemetery |
Flushing Cemetery is a cemetery in Flushing in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
The cemetery is the final resting place for:
- Louis Armstrong, renowned musician and singer
- Bernard Baruch, financier, after whom Baruch College is named
- Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot
- Ellis Parker Butler, author noted for the story Pigs is Pigs
- Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- Dizzy Gillespie, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters
- Hermann Grab, Bohemian writer
- Thomas Birdsall Jackson, United States Congressman
- Lemuel E. Quigg, United States Representative from New York
- May Robson, actress
- Vincent Sardi, Sr., founder of the famous Sardi's restaurant.
[edit] References
- ^ Flushing Cemetery. Forgotten NY. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.
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