Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)

For other places with the same name, see Elmwood Cemetery (disambiguation).

Elmwood Cemetery

Details
Established	1900
Location	Birmingham, Alabama
Country	USA
Coordinates
Type	public
Size	412 acres (1.67 km2)
Find a Grave	external link
The Political Graveyard	external link

Elmwood Cemetery is a 412 acres (167 ha) cemetery established in 1900 (as Elm Leaf Cemetery) in Birmingham, Alabama northwest of Homewood by a group of fraternal organizations. It was renamed in 1906 and gradually eclipsed Oak Hill Cemetery as the most prominent burial place in the city. It has a chapel funeral home at 800 Dennison Avenue Southwest which was established in 1962 by the Lackey family for Johns-Ridout's Mortuary.

The body of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victim, Denise McNair was exhumed from Shadow Lawn Memorial Park to this cemetery by her parents in August 2007.

Notable burials

• Truman H. Aldrich (1848–1932) - U. S. Representative 1896–1897
• William W. Allen (1835–1894) - Confederate Major General
• Mary Anderson (1866–1953) - inventor of the windshield wiper
• Donald Beatty (1900–1980) - aviator, explorer and inventor
• Sydney J. Bowie (1865–1928) - U. S. Representative 1901–1907
• Paul W. "Bear" Bryant (1913–1983) - University of Alabama football coach
• Ben Chapman (1908–1993) - Major League baseball player
• B. B. Comer - (1848–1927) - Governor of Alabama 1907–1911, U. S. Senator 1920
• Father James Coyle (1873–1921) - assassinated priest of St. Paul's church
• George Gordon Crawford (1869–1936) - Industrialist and second graduate of Georgia Tech
• Russell McWhortor Cunningham (1855–1921) - Governor of Alabama 1904–1905
• Spud Davis (1904–1984) - professional baseball player and manager
• William Henry Denson (1846–1906) - U. S. Representative 1893–1895
• Eddie Dent (1887–1974) - professional baseball player
• Joe Domnanovich (1919–2009) - professional football player
• Henry Eugene "Red" Erwin, Sr. (1921–2002) - World War II veteran - Medal of Honor Winner
• William Dudley Geer (1922–2003) - first Dean of the School of Business at Samford University
• Milton L. Grafman (1907-1995) - Former Rabbi of Temple Emanuel and civil rights figure
• John Grenier (1930–2007) - Alabama Republican Party chairman
• Sam Hairston (1920–1997) - Major League baseball player
• Art Hanes (1916–1997) - Mayor of Birmingham 1961–1963
• Lum Harris (1915–1996) - professional baseball manager (Houston Astros & Atlanta Braves)
• Erskine Hawkins (1914–1993) - Musician, trumpeter, composer
• Cliff Holman (1929–2008) - Birmingham television celebrity
• George Huddleston (1869–1960) - U. S. Representative 1915–1937
• George Huddleston, Jr. (1920–1971) - U. S. Representative 1955–1965
• Patti Ruffner Jacobs (1875–1935) - social reformer
• Joseph Forney Johnston (1843–1913) - Governor of Alabama 1896–1900, U. S. Senator 1907–1913
• Eddie Kendricks (1939–1992) - singer, co-founder of The Temptations
• Erskine Ramsay (1864–1953) - Inventor, engineer, philanthropist
• Dee Miles (1909–1976) - Major League baseball player
• John P. Newsome (1893–1961) - U. S. Representative 1943–1945
• Luther Patrick (1894–1957) - U. S. Representative 1937–1943
• Sun Ra (1914–1993) - Jazz musician
• Rufus N. Rhodes (1856–1910) - founder of the Birmingham News
• Bo Russell (1916–1997) - professional football player
• Ed Salem (1928–2001) - professional football player and restaurateur
• Albert Lee Smith, Jr. (1931–1997) - U.S. representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district from 1981 to 1983
• Fred Sington (1910–1998) - professional football player
• Jesse F. Stallings (1856–1928) - U. S. Representative 1893–1901
• Oscar Underwood (1862–1929) - U. S. Senator 1915–1927
• Dixie Walker (1887–1965), Fred "Dixie" Walker's father
• Dixie Walker (1911–1982) - Major League baseball player
• Frank S. White (1847–1922) - U. S. Senator 1914–1915
• Abraham Woods (1928–2008) - minister and civil rights activist
• Yam Yaryan (1892–1964) - Major League baseball player