FAMOUS DEAD PEOPLE
Famous Dead People
Buried In Cemeteries In The Bronx
There are a lot of little hidden cemeteries in The Bronx. Some
are well known and others are not. The two largest ones are St. Raymond Cemetery and Woodlawn
Cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery is by far, the most beautiful
one of the two.
WOODLAWN CEMETERY
The designer of Woodlawn Cemetery, the Reverend Absalom Peters, wasn't thinking
about the dead when he built it. He was thinking about the living! I am talking about beauty at its best!
Woodlawn Cemetery on 233rd Street and Webster Avenue.
With its beautiful trees, rolling hills, winding roads, a pond and a flock of
Canadian Geese and Mallard Ducks, that call Woodlawn "home", it's by far the most beautiful cemetery that I've ever seen.
It has more variety of trees than The New York Botanical Garden.
Many people agree, Woodlawn Cemetery, is for the living!
There are so many famous people resting here. I mean people
who were very famous, powerful and very rich. People who could have chosen any cemetery in the world
as their final resting place, but chose Woodlawn Cemetery for its natural beauty.
There are five former NYC Mayors buried in Woodlawn. We all know
that former Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia is buried here and the other
four are...
William F. Havemeyer (1804-1874)
John Purroy Mitchell (1879-1918)
William L. Strong (1827-1900)
Thomas F. Gilroy (1840-1911).
Then you have here not so famous people who met a tragic untimely death like
young George Spencer Millet, who died at age 15, when he fell and stabbed himself on an ink eraser, while trying
to evade six young ladies who were running after him to give him birthday kisses in the Metropolitan Life Building in Manhattan.
Over 350,000 souls call Woodlawn Cemetery their final resting place!
The following famous people are buried or interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.
In no particular order they are:
John Bussing Haskins, Vito Marcantonio, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbucle, Franklin
Simon, Louis F. Haffen, Ralph Bunche, Countee Cullen, Jay Gould, Jules S. Bache, Harry and Gertrude Whitney, Thomas Nast,
Samuel Kress, Fritz Kreisler, Oscar Hammerstein, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joseph Pulitzer, Otto Preminger, Augustus D. Juilliard,
Victor Herbert, Antoinette Perry Frueauff, Miles Davis, David Glasgow Farragut, Duke Ellington, Vernon and Irene
Castle, Rowland H. Macy, Herman Melville, Archibald Gracie, F.W. Woolworth, Gale Borden, George
W. Delong, Madame C.J. Walker, William Barclay "Bat" Masterson, Fiorello LaGuardia, The Fordham Flash, Irving
Berlin, J.C. Penney, Isidor Straus, Herman Armour, O.H. Belmont, Charles Loehmann, Collis P. Huntington,
Nellie Bly, Celia Cruz and her husband Pedro Knight and many others.
In fact, the list of famous people who are buried or interred at Woodlawn Cemetery
since it opened its gates way back in 1865 goes on and on.
The photos below are all from Woodlawn Cemetery.
THE FAMOUS DEAD HALL OF FAME
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"NO MATTER HOW LONG WE LIVE...
WE'RE ALWAYS DEAD MUCH LONGER".
- Kelly Choi
Host of Secrets of New York
WNYCTV Channel 25
