Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)

This article is about the Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton, Ohio. For other graveyards named Greenwood Cemetery, see Greenwood Cemetery (disambiguation).

Greenwood Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Hamilton, Ohio
Coordinates	39°24′11″N84°32′32″W / 39.4031029°N 84.5421630°W / 39.4031029; -84.5421630
Area	695 acres (2.81 km2)
Architectural style	Exotic Revival and Romanesque [1]
NRHP reference No.	94000771 [1]
Added to NRHP	1994-07-22 [1]

Greenwood Cemetery is a registered historic district in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994. It contains 5 contributing buildings. Greenwood is designed in the style of a landscaped park and garden with mortuary art and statues among the graves.

History

In 1848 the Greenwood Cemetery Association was created in order to establish a community cemetery. Land to create the cemetery was purchased from local resident David Bigham, and planned by Adolph Strauch. Greenwood Cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston and Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati which had also been designed by Strauch. ^[2]

Prominent burials

• Raymond H. Burke, US Congressman, teacher, and businessman
• Lewis D. Campbell, US Congressman – over his political career he was elected as a Whig, Republican, Know Nothing, and Democrat, as well as colonel of the 69th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War
• Ray Combs, host of Family Feud ^[3]
• Warren Gard, US Congressman, attorney, prosecutor, and jurist
• Samuel Herrick, US Congressman
• John M. Millikin, Republican politician and Ohio State Treasurer
• Henry Lee Morey, US Congressman and US Army Civil War officer
• James E. Neal, US Congressman and Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Robert M. Sohngen, lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1947–1948
• Larry Troutman, Zapp lead singer
• Roger Troutman, founder of Zapp
• Elijah Vance, politician and Speaker of the Ohio Senate in 1835 and 1836.
• Ferdinand Van Derveer, Civil War Brigadier General
• S. S. Warner, Republican politician and Ohio State Treasurer from 1866–1871.
• John Woods, US Congressman

Notes

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. June 30, 2007.
2. "History". Greenwood Cemetery. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
3. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Combs, Ray #2581". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN   978-0786479924. OCLC   948561021.

External links

Media related to Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio) at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Greenwood Cemetery at Find a Grave
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Greenwood Cemetery