Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)

Elmwood Cemetery

Details
Year established	1900
Location	600 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35211 United States
Country	USA
Coordinates	33°29′19″N 86°50′46″W
Type	public
Size	412 acres (1.67 km2)
Find a Grave	external link
The Political Graveyard	external link

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

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.

Notable burials

• Henry Aizenman (1931–2008) - Polish Holocaust survivor
• 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
• Charley Boswell (1916–1995) - blind professional golfer
• Sydney J. Bowie (1865–1928) - U. S. Representative 1901–1907
• William Bowron (1921–2008) - president of Red Diamond Coffee and Tea
• 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
• Lorenzo "Piper" Davis (1917–1989) - Professional baseball player, Birmingham Black Barons
• 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
• James H. Francis (1928-2009) - Medical Doctor - Early Migraine Headache Research
• 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)
• Cliff Holman (1929–2008) - Birmingham television celebrity
• Frank O. House (1927–1989) - U.S. Air Force General
• 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) - pioneering heart surgeon
• Gus Koutroulakis (1929–2011) - Owner of Pete's Famous Hot Dogs in Birmingham
• Denise McNair (1951–1963) - one of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims
• Charles M. Meriwether, Jr. - former director of US Export-Import Bank and Alabama Finance Director
• 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
• Harold Ruttenberg (1942–2005) - founder of Just For Feet
• Ed Salem (1928–2001) - professional football player and restauranteur
• 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
• Bill Terry, Jr (1949–1969) Vietnam War veteran, the first African American interred at Elmwood Cemetery
• 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