Elmwood Cemetery - Kansas City, Missouri

Join along as we visit the historic Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. This cemetery has many notable residents including KC mayors, the founder of Helzberg Diamonds, the founders of Armour and Company, Civil War Generals, a member of Quantrill’s Raiders, and many other prominent people of the Kansas City area. The first burial here occurred in 1840. Please see the the links below if you would like to learn more! Elmwood Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/28590/elmwood-cemetery Morris Helzberg (founder of Helzberg Diamonds) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helzberg_Diamonds Andrew, Charles, Kirkland, and Simeon Armour (founders of Amour and Company) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_and_Company Samuel Millard Bowman (Civil War General) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6325498/samuel-millard-bowman James Johnson Lindley (U.S. Congressman) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6531842/james-johnson-lindley John William Reid (U.S. Congressman) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6154397/john-william-reid Abram Comingo (U.S. Congressman) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6384270/abram-comingo William Warner (Civil War Army Officer, U.S. Congressman) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6384246/william-warner Frank Askew (Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6325499/frank-askew **As you can see in the video this cemetery is fairly large and I didn’t find all the graves I would have liked. Maybe one day I will do a part 2. Until then here is a list of other notable people buried in this cemetery that are not shown in the video** KC Mayors.. Edward Herrick Allen (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Allen), Thomas B. Bullene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B._Bullene), James Cowgill (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cowgill), Webster Davis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Davis), Turner Anderson Gill (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_A._Gill), William S. Gregory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Gregory), Henry C. Kumpf (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C._Kumpf), Francis Reid Long (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_R._Long), Edward L. Martin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L._Martin), and Elijah Milton McKee. Others.. Mary McAfee Atkins (donated money for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in KC) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art Sarah Barret (a sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln!) https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansascity.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article216047635.html William Patterson Borland (U.S. Congressman) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Patterson_Borland Theodore Case https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6305069/theodore-spencer-case Kersey Coates (real estate developer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersey_Coates Annie Chambers (Kansas City’s Madame) https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/secrets-chambers Frank James wife, Ann Ralston James, ashes were once kept here but were later moved to Hill Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerelda_Mimms Milton Field (Contracted Walt Disney to create his first cartoons) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh-O-Gram_Studio Hiram Fosdick Dovol (Civil War General) Thomas Hackney (U.S. Congressman) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hackney Robert E. “Bob” Lee (a member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10649136/robert-e_-lee Americus McKim (founder of Kansas City Unions baseball team. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Cowboys_(Union_Association) Harold Oppenheimer (Marine Corps General/stepfather was Jules Stein of MCA Entertainment empire. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/02/us/harold-l-oppenheimer-66-ex-general-and-cattle-expert.html Frank Ringo (baseball player) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ringo William Warner (U.S. Congressman) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Warner_(Missouri_politician) John Woodward Jenkins (founder of Jenkins Music Company Della Cochrane Lamb (a long career of church and community work) James Jordan Squire (Livestock, Capitalist, Banker, and real estate)