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Elmwood Cemetery is a 43-acre (17 ha) historic rural cemetery, [4] located in what became the urban area of 4900 Truman Road at the corner of Van Brunt Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. With an estimated 35,000—38,000 plots, [ 1 ] the cemetery is owned, operated, and maintained by the non-profit organization Elmwood Cemetery Society.
Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois. His parents were Don Carlos Taft and Mary Lucy Foster. [2] His father was a professor of geology at the Illinois Industrial University (later renamed the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). He lived much of his childhood at 601 E. John Street, Champaign, Illinois, near the center of the UIUC campus ...
Union Cemetery is the oldest surviving public cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. [3][4][5] It was founded on November 9, 1857, as the private shareholder-owned corporation, Union Cemetery Assembly. As a commercial enterprise remote from city limits, its 49 acres (20 ha) became a well-funded and remarkably landscaped destination by 1873.
Elmwood Cemetery was established as part of the Rural Cemetery Movement of the early-to-mid-19th century. A classic example of a garden cemetery, it is notable for its park-like setting, sweeping vistas, shady knolls, large stands of ancient trees, and magnificent monuments. On 28 August 1852, fifty prominent Memphis citizens each contributed ...
The dead soldiers were interred at the Fort Pickering cemetery, located on the south shore of Memphis. A year later, when the U.S. government established the Memphis National Cemetery on the northeast side of the city, [4]: 206 the bodies were moved there. Three civilian victims of the wreck of Sultana are interred at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
He died on May 3, 1907, in his seventy-seventh year, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [8] He left an estate valued at $15,000. [9] Among Sutermeister's eight children were: Arnold Henry Sutermeister (1869–1918); [1] Paul Arthur, the grandfather of Martha L. Ludwig; [10] and Charles Oscar (1867–1937), the father of Robert A. Sutermeister.
At 4:00 a.m. on August 21, 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest made a daring raid on Union -held Memphis, Tennessee, but it was not an attempt to capture the city, which was occupied by 6,000 Federal troops. The raid had three objectives: to capture three Union generals posted there; to release Southern prisoners from Irving Block Prison ...
Shepherdstown is a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, located in the lower Shenandoah Valley along the Potomac River. Home to Shepherd University, the town's population was 1,531 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] The town was established in 1762 along with Romney; they are the oldest towns in West Virginia.