Elmwood Cemetery (Columbia, South Carolina)

Elmwood Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Elmwood Cemetery, Confederate Cemetery Entrance, July 2012
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Location	501 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°0′50″N81°3′13″W / 34.01389°N 81.05361°W / 34.01389; -81.05361
Area	168.5 acres (68.2 ha)
Built	1854 (1854), 1921
NRHP reference No.	96000984 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 6, 1996

Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1854, and expanded in 1921. The older section is heavily wooded and has a section devoted to Confederate dead. ^{[2] [3]}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. ^[1]

Notable burials

• Christie Benet (1879-1951), American Democratic politician who briefly represented South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1918.
• Daniel Bragg Clayton (1817-1906), an American Southern Universalist minister who was instrumental in spreading and defending Universalism in the South.
• Walter Clinton Goodpasture, Jr. (1917-1942), a United States Marine Corps captain during World War II and his wife Mary Brennen (née Daly) Goodpasture (1921-1942) who were two of the 492 victims of the Cocoanut Grove fire.
• Athalia L. J. Irwin (1862-1915), an American Universalist minister who broke gender barriers within her denomination. She was the first female editor of The Universalist Herald.
• William Zachariah Leitner (1829–1888), state representative and senator and South Carolina Secretary of State ^[4]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Karen Nickless and Ann Parker Hubbard Cohen (June 1995). "Elmwood Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
3. "Elmwood Cemetery, Richland County (501 Elmwood Ave., Columbia)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
4. "The Secretary of State Dead". The Yorkville Enquirer. April 18, 1888. p. 2. Retrieved May 11, 2025– via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Media related to Elmwood Cemetery (Columbia, South Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons
• Elmwood Cemetery at Find a Grave