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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GVCEM_031109_14.JPG: This is the area where the 755 unknown victims of the Johnstown flood were buried.
2. GVCEM_031109_23.JPG: Since the cemetery existed between 1865 and 1900, there's the required GAR memorial.
3. GVCEM_031109_33.JPG: Boyd D Wagner. The first American ace in World War II. He died in service on November 29, 1942. "Out of these hills, deep-rooted in the earth, yet always reaching for the beckoning sky, he drew the quality which gauged his worth, his lowliness, as prestige mounted high."
4. GVCEM_031109_40.JPG: Gerald Horner. This marker is written up in the cemetery's brochure. The statue was taken from an in-uniform picture his mother had of her son. He died in World War I.
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Wikipedia Description: Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown
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Grandview Cemetery is a cemetery in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

The cemetery association that operates Grandview was founded in 1885 to accommodate Johnstown's rapidly growing population. The first interment was that of Lucretia Hammond of Kernville (now a part of Johnstown), who was buried on April 30, 1887.

The land for the cemetery, west of the city on Yoder Hill, was purchased from the Cambria Iron Company.

In the late 1880s, a steep and winding mile-long road named Millcreek Road was constructed to the original entrance of the cemetery, but in 1904 it was found necessary to create a new entrance to the cemetery at Bucknell Avenue.

The cemetery is best known because of the aftermath of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Many of the flood's 2,209 victims are buried there. A section of the cemetery called the "Unknown Plot" contains the bodies of 777 flood victims who could not be identified. A monument to the flood victims was purchased by the state of Pennsylvania and dedicated on May 31, 1892 before a crowd estimated at 10,000 that included the governor of Pennsylvania.

As of March 31, 1992, the total number of interments at Grandview was 57,006. The cemetery contains 47 burial sections and more than 235 acres, and is one of the largest in Pennsylvania.

Notable burials:

* Warren Worth Bailey
* Jacob Miller Campbell
* Elmer Ellsworth Cleveland
* John G. McCrory
* Daniel Johnson Morrell
* John Murtha
* George W. Reed
* John Marshall Rose
* John Phillips Saylor
* Howard William Stull
* Boyd Wagner
* Anderson Howell Walters
* George M. Wertz
* John Irving Whalley
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