Beechwoods Cemetery (New Rochelle, New York): Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Srich32977 (talk | contribs) Copyedit (major) |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
{{New Rochelle, New York}} |
{{New Rochelle, New York}} |
||
[[Category:New Rochelle, New York]] |
[[Category:Geography of New Rochelle, New York]] |
||
[[Category:Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York]] |
[[Category:Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York]] |
||
[[Category:1854 establishments in the United States]] |
[[Category:1854 establishments in the United States]] |
||
Revision as of 20:43, 1 April 2015
Beechwoods Cemetery is a non-denominational cemetery located in New Rochelle, New York. The cemetery was incorporated in 1854.
Notable interments
- Medal of Honor recipients:
- Robert Temple Emmet (1854–1936), Lieutenant in the American Cavalry, for action in the Indian Wars.[1]
- William B. Lewis (1847–1900), Union Army Sergeant, for action in the Indian Wars.[2]
- Others
- Ruth Chatterton (1892–1961), American actress, novelist and aviator. Her cremated remains are interred in a niche in the Lugar Mausoleum (Section 11, Lot 303).
- Thaddeus Davids (1810–1894), New York City businessman.[3]
- John Hunter (1788–1852), New York City merchant and landowner.[4]
- John Q. Underhill (1848–1907), U.S. Congressman.
- Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), one of the founders of gestalt psychology.
References
External links
  | This article about a cemetery in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |