WebWoodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark.Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, New York City, it has the character of a rural cemetery.Woodlawn Cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863, in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to …

WebWoodlawn Heights, also known as Woodlawn, is a predominantly Irish-American working class neighborhood at the very north end of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by McLean Avenue to the north (slightly north of New York City's border with the city of Yonkers in Westchester County), the Bronx River to the east, Woodlawn …

WebSoutheast Bronx: the southern half of the East Bronx; the area south of Pelham Parkway and east of the Bronx River A second system divides the borough first and foremost into the following sections: North Bronx : all areas not in the South Bronx (Southwest Bronx) – i.e. the Northwest Bronx, Northeast Bronx, and Southeast Bronx

WebRosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago, who is buried in Rosehill.The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Like its sister cemetery …

WebCharles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician and jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910–1916), and 44th U.S. …

WebOakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy, New York, United States.It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association, a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery. It was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery movement in New England and went into …

WebThe Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s /) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York.It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River.The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km 2) …

WebBarron Gift Collier (March 23, 1873 – March 13, 1939) was an American advertising entrepreneur who became the largest landowner and developer in the U.S. state of Florida, as well as the owner of a chain of hotels, bus lines, several banks, and newspapers, and of a telephone company and a steamship line.. Collier was born in Memphis, Tennessee.He …

WebWoodlawn Cemetery is the name of a cemetery in Elmira, New York, United States.Its most famous burials are Mark Twain and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.Many members of the United States Congress, including Jacob Sloat Fassett are also interred there.. Within Woodlawn Cemetery is the distinct Woodlawn National Cemetery, begun with the …

WebHe is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. Personal life. Bumpy Johnson married Mayme Hatcher in October 1948, just six months after their first meeting. Johnson had two daughters, Ruthie and Elease, the latter of whom was from another relationship. His wife died in May 2009 at the age of 94. In popular culture