Flushing Cemetery
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| Year established | 1853[1] |
| Location | Flushing, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°45′6″N 73°47′58″W / 40.75167°N 73.79944°WCoordinates: 40°45′6″N 73°47′58″W / 40.75167°N 73.79944°W |
| Find a Grave | Flushing Cemetery |
| The Political Graveyard | Flushing Cemetery |
Flushing Cemetery is a cemetery in Flushing in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
The cemetery is the final resting place for:
- Louis Armstrong, renowned musician and singer
- Bernard Baruch, financier, after whom Baruch College is named
- Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot
- Ellis Parker Butler, author noted for the story Pigs is Pigs
- Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpet legend
- Hermann Grab, Bohemian writer
- Johnny Hodges, long-time Ellington band sideman and soloist
- Thomas Birdsall Jackson, United States Congressman
- Jan Matulka, Modern artist
- Lemuel E. Quigg, United States Representative from New York
- May Robson, actress
- Vincent Sardi, Sr., founder of the famous Sardi's restaurant.
- Hazel Scott, musician
- Aris San, a Greek singer who spent most of his life in Israel and United States.
[edit] References
- ^ "Flushing Cemetery". Forgotten NY. http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/flushcem/flushing.html. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
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