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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:
- ELM_070125_011.JPG: No Man's Land Monument
- ELM_070125_032.JPG: Confederate Monument
- ELM_070125_053.JPG: Kit Dalton (1843-1920) He fought for the Confederacy and with Quantrell's Raiders. After the war he rode with Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger. Over 100 years ago a $50,000 reward was offered for him dead or alive. Since they could not capture him, he was later pardoned by several governors with his promise that he would lead an exemplary life, which he did during his last 20 years in Memphis.
- ELM_070125_072.JPG: Sultana monument. The dead are actually buried in the Memphis National Cemetery.
- ELM_070125_089.JPG: I liked the way they had chiseled out the name of the husband and apparently fixed it.
- ELM_070125_111.JPG: Wade Bolton (1813-1869) monument. Realistic monument. He was killed at Court Square in a family feud.
- ELM_070125_120.JPG: Nathan Bedford Forrest's family plot. His body was later moved to Forrest Park.
- ELM_070125_136.JPG: Charles Wesley Goyer
- ELM_070125_147.JPG: Virginia Bethel ("Ginny") Moon (1844-1925) Confederate spy
- ELM_070125_165.JPG: William J Smith (1823-1913) Mexican War and Union general veteran who stayed in Memphis after the war.
- ELM_070125_179.JPG: Frank Lathan Jr. (1891-1918) aviator who died in France during the war.
- ELM_070125_184.JPG: Slave Monument: "Monument to the Slaves: Final resting place of more than 300 enslaved Africans buried between 1852 and 1865. For a life of toil and bondage only a nameless grave awaited thousands of slaves throughout the South.
- ELM_070125_199.JPG: Robert Church -- South's first African-American millionaire
- ELM_070125_214.JPG: Jimmie Lunceford (1902-1947) nationally known musician and orchestra leader.
- ELM_070125_240.JPG: Gideon Pillow.
- ELM_070125_247.JPG: Col. John Smith
- ELM_070125_293.JPG: John Overton (1842-1903) -- Mayor of Memphis (1881-1883)
- ELM_070125_302.JPG: Lt. Col. John B. Snowden II (1906-1944) -- Officer killed in France during WWII.
- ELM_070125_311.JPG: Etta Grigsby Partee
- ELM_070125_331.JPG: Herman Frank Arnold
- Wikipedia Description: Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historic Elmwood Cemetery is the oldest active cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1852 as one of the first rural garden cemeteries in the South.
Origins:
Elmwood Cemetery was established as part of the Rural Cemetery Movement of the early to mid 1800s. 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 $500 for stock certificates in order to purchase 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land for the cemetery; they envisioned that this land would be a park for the living as well as the dead, where family outings, picnics, and social gatherings could occur. It was meant to be a place where beautiful gardens were tended and individual monuments celebrated both life and death. The name for the place was chosen in a drawing: several proposed names were put into a hat and Elmwood was drawn out, with the stockholders stating they were "well pleased" with the selection. Ironically, they had to hurriedly order some elms trees from New York to place among the native oaks of Memphis, since there were no elms in the area. After the American Civil War, the property was expanded to 80 acres (320,000 m2) for another $40,000. In the 1870s, the original corporation controlling the cemetery was dissolved and it became one of the oldest nonprofits in Tennessee. .
The first burial occurred on 15 July 1853, when Mrs. R.B. Berry was laid to rest. Since then, more than 75,000 people have been buried at Elmwood Cemetery, with space still remaining for about 15,000 more. The cemetery's gardens include the Carlisle S. Page Arboretum. Beneath the cemetery's ancient elms, oaks, and magnolias lie some of the city's most honored and revered dead; flowering dogwoods and crepe myrtles are interspersed with Memphis history, those famous and infamous, loved and feared. There are veterans of every American war, from the American Revolution up to the Vietnam War, and there are people from every walk of life and culture, including Mayors of Memphis, Governors of Tennessee, U.S. Senators, madams, blues singers, suffragists, martyrs, generals, civil rights leaders, holy men and women, outlaws and millionaires and, of course, perfectly ordinary citizens.
Civil War burials:
More than 1,000 Confederate soldiers and veterans are buried in Confederate Soldiers Rest, located in the cemetery's Fowler Section. Many other Confederates are buried elsewhere in the cemetery. The first burial in Confederate Soldiers Rest was William (Thomas) Gallagher on June 17, 1861, and the last interment was John Frank Gunter on April 1, 1940. Among the Confederate generals buried there are James Patton Anderson, a former U.S. Congressman who commanded the Army of Tennessee in 1862, Colton Greene, and William Henry Carroll.
Also buried here is Thomas Battle Turley, CSA private and U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
Union soldiers also were buried at Elmwood in the 1860s, but almost all were removed in 1868 and reinterred in Memphis National Cemetery. Two Union generals, William Jay Smith and Milton T. Williamson, remain at Elmwood.
Yellow Fever burials:
There were several outbreaks of yellow fever in Memphis during the 1870s, culminating in the devastating 1878 epidemic, with over 5,000 fatalities in the city itself and 20,000 along the whole of the Mississippi River Valley. Some 2,500 of the Memphis victims are buried in four public lots at Elmwood; among them are doctors, ministers, nuns, and even prostitutes who died while tending to the sick.
Visiting Elmwood:
Elmwood Cemetery is located at 824 South Dudley Street, 0.4 miles (0.64 km) south of Crump Boulevard. The cemetery grounds are open from 8:00am to 4:30pm CST, seven days a week, including holidays. The cemetery office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm CST, Saturday from 8:00am to 12:00pm CST, and is closed on Sundays and holidays.
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