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The Elmwood Cemetery is located at 425 Georges Road in New Brunswick, New Jersey on the border of North Brunswick, New Jersey. [1] Joyce Kilmer who was buried in France, is honored by a cenotaph erected in his family's plot in the cemetery. [2] [3]
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[edit] References
- ^ "Robbers in Elmwood Cemetery.". New York Times. December 22, 1901, Sunday. "Two Robbers, armed with a heavy sledge hammer, ... The burial plot of Joseph R. and Henry H. Palmer in Elmwood Cemetery last night. ..."
- ^ "Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) - Author of Trees and Other Poems". Miriam A. Kilmer. http://www.risingdove.com/Kilmer/Trees.asp. Retrieved on 2007-08-26. "Joyce Kilmer is buried in Oise-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France. There is a picture of the Kilmer Family Cenotaph in Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Please note that Joyce Kilmer was never buried in the United States."
- ^ "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". The New York Times. March 28, 2004. "New Jersey is, indeed, a home of poets. Walt Whitman's tomb is nestled in a wooded grove in the Harleigh Cemetery in Camden. Joyce Kilmer is buried [sic] in Elmwood Cemetery in New Brunswick, not far from the New Jersey Turnpike rest stop named in his honor. Allen Ginsberg may not yet have a rest stop, but the Beat Generation author of Howl is resting at B'Nai Israel Cemetery in Newark." . Note that Kilmer is not buried at Elmwood Cemetery (he is buried in France), but he does have a cenotaph at Elmwood.
- ^ Welsh, Jack D. (1998). Medical Histories of Union Generals. Kent State. ISBN 0873388534. http://books.google.com/books?id=epbbg1CA4CAC&dq.
- ^ Johnson, Robert Wood, Jr., The Political Graveyard. Accessed August 16, 2007.
- ^ New Jersey Governor George Craig Ludlow, National Governors Association. Accessed August 16, 2007.
- ^ Miles Ross, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 29, 2007.
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Coordinates: 40°28′30″N 74°27′04″W / 40.475°N 74.451°W / 40.475; -74.451
