Elmwood Cemetery (Columbia, South Carolina)
Elmwood Cemetery | |
Elmwood Cemetery, Confederate Cemetery Entrance, July 2012 | |
| Location | 501 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°0′50″N 81°3′13″W / 34.01389°N 81.05361°W |
| Area | 168.5 acres (68.2 ha) |
| Built | 1854, 1921 |
| NRHP reference No. | 96000984[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 6, 1996 |
Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It was established in 1854, and expanded in 1921. The older section is heavily wooded and has a section devoted to Confederate dead.[2][3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
Notable burials
- Christie Benet (1879-1951), American Democratic politician who briefly represented South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1918.
- Daniel Bragg Clayton (1817-1906), an American Southern Universalist minister who was instrumental in spreading and defending Universalism in the Southeast United States.
- Walter Clinton Goodpasture, Jr. (1917-1942), a United States Marine Corps captain during World War II and his wife Mary Brennen (née Daly) Goodpasture (1921-1942) who were two of the 492 victims of the Cocoanut Grove fire.
- Walter Higbe (1915-1985), American professional baseball player who played in five of the Major League Baseball teams from 1937 until 1950, including the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Athalia L. J. Irwin (1862-1915), an American Universalist minister who broke gender barriers within her denomination. She was the first female editor of The Universalist Herald.
- William Zachariah Leitner (1829–1888), state representative and senator and South Carolina Secretary of State.[4]
- Alva M. Lumpkin (1886-1941), American Democratic politician who briefly represented South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1941.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Karen Nickless and Ann Parker Hubbard Cohen (June 1995). "Elmwood Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
- ^ "Elmwood Cemetery, Richland County (501 Elmwood Ave., Columbia)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
- ^ "The Secretary of State Dead". The Yorkville Enquirer. April 18, 1888. p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Media related to Elmwood Cemetery (Columbia, South Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons
- Elmwood Cemetery at Find a Grave