ELMWOOD CEMETERY (BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA)

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'Elmwood Cemetery' is a 412-acre (167-hectare) cemetery established in the 1880s (as Elm Leaf Cemetery) on the western side of Birmingham, Alabama 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.

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Notable burials

Notable burials

★ Truman H. Aldrich (1848-1955) - U. S. Representative 1896-1897

★ William Wirt Allen (1835-1894) - Confederate Major General

★ Sydney J. Bowie (1865-1928) - U. S. Representative 1901-1907

★ Bear Bryant (1913-1983) - University of Alabama football coach

★ B. B. Comer - (1848-1927) - Governor of Alabama 1907-1911, U. S. Senator 1920

★ Fr. James Coyle - (1873-1927) - assassinated priest of St. Paul's church

★ Russell McWhortor Cunningham (1855-1921) - Governor of Alabama 1904-1905

★ William Henry Denson (1846-1906) - U. S. Representative 1893-1895

★ John Forney former play by play voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide

★ Samuel H. Hairston (1920-1997) - baseball player

★ Art Hanes (1916-1997) - Mayor of Birmingham 1961-1963

★ 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

★ John W. Kirklin (1917-2004) - pioneer heart surgeon

★ John P. Newsome (1893-1961) - U. S. Representative 1943-1945

★ Luther Patrick (1894-1957) - U. S. Representative 1937-1943

★ Rufus N. Rhodes (1856-1910) - founder of the ''Birmingham News''

★ Jesse F. Stallings (1856-1928) - U. S. Representative 1893-1901

★ Sun Ra (1914-1993) - Jazz musician

★ Oscar Underwood (1862-1929) - U. S. Senator 1915-1927

★ Dixie Walker (1911-1982) - baseball player

★ Frank S. White (1847-1922) - U. S. Senator 1914-1915