Historic Markers Across Tennessee
Elmwood Cemetery
| Marker ID: |
THC 4E 72 |
| Location: |
in Elmwood Cemetery, 824 South Dudley Street, Memphis, TN |
| County: |
Shelby |
| Coordinates: |
N 35° 7.451 W 090° 1.774 |
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35.12418333 -90.02956666 |
| Style: |
Free Standing ** |
| Waymark: |
WM9HND
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Text:
Elmwood Cemetery was established on August 28, 1852. Buried here are Memphis pioneer families: 14 Confederate generals; victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878; Governors Isham G. Harris and James C. Jones; U.S. Senators Kenneth D. McKellar, Thomas B. Turley, and Stephen Adams, who succeeded Jefferson Davis in the Senate; E.H. Crump, prominent political leader for decades, along with 21 other mayors of Memphis; and Robert Church, the South's first black millionaire.
Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission.
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