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1. CROWN_120811_031.JPG: Rhoads Cemetery Established 1844 In memory of five pioneer families originally buried in southeastern Wayne Township in Marion County, Indiana. In 1999, twelve adults and thirty-four children of the Rhoads, Rude, Foster, Foltz, and Johns families were buried at this final resting site. This memorial serves as a tribute to their lives.
2. CROWN_120811_034.JPG: Greenlawn Cemetery Established 1821 In memory of over 1,160 pioneers originally buried in Greenlawn Cemetery and moved to Crown Hill Cemetery in 1912. This memorial honors these original citizens of Indianapolis. Greenlawn was the first cemetery known to exist in Indianapolis and was located on a small tract of land beyond the southwest end of Kentucky Avenue, near the White River. In addition to the pioneers buried within this lot, several thousand burials were moved from Greenlawn to Crown Hill and other area cemeteries. Among these were 1,616 Confederate soldiers who were reburied in 1933 at the Confederate Mound located in Section 32 of Crown Hill.
3. CROWN_120811_037.JPG: Wright-Whitesell-Gentry Cemetery Established 1841 This monument honors the memory of the Wright-Whitesell-Gentry families who were buried in a small cemetery located on the Wright family farm in Lawrence Township beginning in 1841. In 2008, twelve adults, fourteen children and seven infants were reburied in this final resting place at Crown Hill Cemetery. Members of the Wright family, headed by the Reverent James T. Wright, founder of the church now known as Castleton United Methodist Church and extended family members of the Whitesell, Gentry, Easterday and Gates families were buried in the small cemetery with the last burial taking place in 1905. Also interred is Civil War Private John W. Gentry, who served in the 26th Indiana, Co "I" from March of 1864 until the unit was disbanded in January, 1866. This memorial is a fitting tribute to the pioneering families who were among the first settlers in Marion and Hamilton Counties.
4. CROWN_120811_059.JPG: Crown Hill Crown Hill Cemetery, founded in 1863, is the fourth largest cemetery in America. The history of Indiana and the United States is reflected in its monuments. President Benjamin Harrison, Vice-Presidents Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Hendricks, and Thomas Marshall, innovators Richard Gatling and Col. Eli Lilly, author Booth Tarkington and poet James Whitcomb Riley are among the many political, commercial, and literary leaders buried within its bounds. Crown Hill is the only cemetery in the state listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
5. CROWN_120811_103.JPG: Indiana AIDS Memorial
6. CROWN_120811_135.JPG: James Whitcomb Riley The "Hoosier Poet," who buried here in 1917. Known and acclaimed internationally for his poetry about life in the heartland, he is best remembered today for his poems that appeal to children and to the child in all of us, such as "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man." He was especially loved by the many local children who were able to enjoy not only his poetry, but also his time and lemonade on the front porch of his Indianapolis home on Lockerbie Street. After his death children began donating coins to help pay for his memorial. The tradition of leaving coins on his monument continues today and the money collected is donated to Mr. Riley's legacy, The Riley Hospital for Children.
7. CROWN_120811_204.JPG: Benjamin Harrison's marker is the second from the left
8. CROWN_120811_217.JPG: Beautification in grateful recognition of their devotion to a free America Benjamin Harrison Twenty-third President, United States of America Caroline Scott Harrison First President General National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs. Marion H. Miller State Regent Indiana DAR Dedicated September 27, 1987
9. CROWN_120811_228.JPG: Benjamin Harrison Twenty-third president of the United States 1889-1893
10. CROWN_120811_262.JPG: Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling inventor of the Gatling Gun Born Hertford Co., North Carolina, Sept. 12th 1818 Died New York City, Febr. 26th, 1903 The highest honors that the world can boast are subjects far too low for my desire, the brightest beams of glory are at most incomplete compared to my belief in the immortality of the soul. Jemima Taylor Sanders His beloved and saintly wife Born May 27th, 1837 Died Sept. 26th, 1908. Whose forty-eight years of married life as wife and mother were etched with unfailing tenderness and devotion.
11. CROWN_120811_271.JPG: They were redoing the Union section of the cemetery
12. CROWN_120811_285.JPG: Oliver P. Morton
13. CROWN_120811_290.JPG: Oliver P. Morton 1823-1877 [The Civil War governor]
14. CROWN_120811_350.JPG: Charles Warren Fairbanks US Senate 1897-1905 Vice President of the United States 1905-1909 Cornelia Cole Fairbanks President General DAR, 1901-1905
15. CROWN_120811_385.JPG: Eli Lilly is on the left
16. CROWN_120811_442.JPG: Confederate section
17. CROWN_120811_452.JPG: Confederate Mound These Confederate soldiers and sailors died at Indianapolis while prisoners of war. They were transferred here from Greenlawn Cemetery in 1933 to rest eternal. A large monument to these dead now stands in Garfield Park, Indianapolis, Indiana.
18. CROWN_120811_470.JPG: John Dillinger Jr. 1903-1934 [The crook]
19. CROWN_120811_475.JPG: John Dillinger 1864-1943 [This is the criminal's dad]
20. CROWN_120811_483.JPG: Dedicated to those persons of good will who have bequeathed their bodies for the advancement of medical science
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Wikipedia Description: Crown Hill Cemetery
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Crown Hill Cemetery, located at 700 West 38th Street in Indianapolis, is the third largest non-governmental cemetery in the United States at 555 acres (225 ha). It contains 25 miles (40 km) of paved road, over 150 species of trees and plants, over 200,000 graves, and services roughly 1,500 burials per year. It sits on the highest geographic point within the pre-Unigov city limits of Indianapolis. Section 10 of the cemetery is designated as the Crown Hill National Cemetery.

History

Prior to the establishment of Crown Hill Cemetery, the primary cemetery in Indianapolis was the 25-acre (10 ha) Greenlawn Cemetery on the southwest side of the city. The demand placed on it by the normal demands of a growing city, along with the burials of both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war resulting from the American Civil War prompted the creation of a private board in 1863 to develop a new and larger cemetery. The board bought a farm outside the city limits and hired John Chislett, who was a landscape architect and cemetery superintendent of Pittsburgh, to design the grounds. Chislett retained many of the natural features and laid out winding roads to create a landscape in the Victorian Romantic style.

Crown Hill Cemetery was dedicated on June 1, 1864. The first burial took place the next day, on June 2, for a young mother named Lucy Ann Seaton, who had died of consumption.

Previously a private farm outside the city limits, Crown Hill Cemetery is a popular picnic location and today is well known for the stunning view of downtown Indianapolis from "The Crown."

Notable interments

James Whitcomb Riley, poet best known for his poem "Little Orphant Annie"
Benjamin Harrison, U.S. President, along with his two wives and a daughter
Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun
Booth Tarkington, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
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