Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery
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Location | 1300 Old Hartford Road, Owensboro, Kentucky |
No. of interments | Estimated 55,000 |
Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery is located at 1300 Old Hartford Road in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. There are about 55,000 interments at the cemetery, which is officially recognized as a historical landmark by the state of Kentucky. Notable people buried in the cemetery include a number of US Congressmen, as well as Rainey Bethea, the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.
Notable persons
- Rainey Bethea
- William Thomas Ellis
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Christine Johnson[1]
- James Leeper Johnson
- Thomas Clay McCreery
- John Hardin McHenry Sr
- Johnny Morrison
- William Northcut Sweeney
- Philip Thompson
- Charles Stewart Todd
- George Washington Triplett (1809–1894), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Kentucky Senate and Confederate States Congress[2]
- Philip Triplett
References
- OCLC 948561021.
- Archive.org.