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Kensico Cemetery

April 23, 2023

Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (1.0 km2), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km2) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres (1.87 km2) in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

Main entrance
The Tower at the upper entrance
Mineola Lake
An elk statue

Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including Russian-born Sergei Rachmaninoff, were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the Actors' Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.

The cemetery contains four Commonwealth war graves, of three Canadian Army soldiers of World War I and a repatriated American Royal Air Force airman of World War II.[1]

As of December 2021, eight Major League Baseball players are buried here, including Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Lou Gehrig.[2]

Sharon Gardens is a 76-acre (31 ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 for Jewish burials.

Notable interments in Kensico division

Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division

Image gallery

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    Mayer tumulus

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    Egyptian Sphinx Tomb

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    The Kane Lodge sphere

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    Pinkney Pyramid

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    Mecca Temple

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    The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery

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    The Ayer statue

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    Grave of Lou Gehrig

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    The Friars Club Monument

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    Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with minaret

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    Daniel monument

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    The monument of Judge John Fitch

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    Amos Sulka mausoleum

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    The cemetery on the Metro North line

References

  1. ^ "Valhalla (Kensico) Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Players by place of burial: New York Baseball Stats and Info". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  3. ^ "Lew Dockstader, Minstrel, Is Dead. Famous Comedian Succumbs to a Bone Tumor at His Daughter's Home at 68". The New York Times. October 27, 1924. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
  4. ^ "Mildred Hepburn Obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths TOLBERT, VICTORIA A." The New York Times. New York, New York. 18 November 1997. Retrieved April 12, 2022.

External links

Coordinates: 41°04′40″N 73°47′11″W / 41.0779°N 73.7865°W / 41.0779; -73.7865

April 23, 2023
kensico, cemetery, located, valhalla, westchester, county, york, founded, 1889, when, many, york, city, cemeteries, were, becoming, full, rural, cemeteries, were, being, created, near, railroads, that, served, city, initially, acres, expanded, acres, 1905, red. Kensico Cemetery located in Valhalla Westchester County New York was founded in 1889 when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city Initially 250 acres 1 0 km2 it was expanded to 600 acres 2 4 km2 in 1905 but reduced to 461 acres 1 87 km2 in 1912 when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery Main entrance The Tower at the upper entrance Mineola Lake An elk statue Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century including Russian born Sergei Rachmaninoff were buried here The cemetery has a special section for members of the Actors Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association some of whom died in abject poverty The cemetery contains four Commonwealth war graves of three Canadian Army soldiers of World War I and a repatriated American Royal Air Force airman of World War II 1 As of December 2021 eight Major League Baseball players are buried here including Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Lou Gehrig 2 Sharon Gardens is a 76 acre 31 ha section of Kensico Cemetery which was created in 1953 for Jewish burials Contents 1 Notable interments in Kensico division 2 Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division 3 Image gallery 4 References 5 External linksNotable interments in Kensico division EditVirginia Admiral 1915 2000 painter and poet mother of actor Robert De Niro Hadji Ali c 1887 92 1937 vaudeville performance artist Elizabeth Akers Allen 1832 1911 author and poet Glenn Anders 1889 1981 American actor Edward Franklin Albee II 1857 1930 Vaudeville impresario John Emory Andrus 1841 1934 mayor of Yonkers New York and U S Congressman Peter Arno 1904 1968 cartoonist Anne Bancroft 1931 2005 American actress Wendy Barrie 1912 1978 actress Ed Barrow 1868 1953 baseball manager and executive Marion Bauer 1882 1955 American composer Malcolm Lee Beggs 1907 1956 actor Henri Bendel 1868 1936 fashion designer creator of the Bendel bonnet Vivian Blaine 1921 1995 actress and singer William Blaisdell 1865 1931 actor plot Actors Fund Ralph Albert Blakelock 1847 1919 Romanticist painter Patras Bokhari 1898 1958 Pakistani humorist writer Paul Bonwit 1862 1939 founder of Bonwit Teller department store Evangeline Booth 1865 1950 evangelist daughter of Salvation Army founder fourth General of the Salvation Army Herbert Booth 1862 1926 songwriter son of Salvation Army founder Sully Boyar Irvin 1923 2001 actor Martin Bregman 1926 2018 film producer Russ Brown 1892 1964 actor Billie Burke 1884 1970 actress Henry Burr 1882 1941 Canadian singer William J Butler 1860 1927 Irish silent film actor Cheng Chui Ping 1949 2014 Snakehead human smuggler Andy Coakley 1882 1963 baseball player Frank Conroy 1890 1964 British film and stage actor Bigelow Cooper 1867 1953 actor Harry Cooper 1904 2000 golfer Frederick E Crane 1869 1947 Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals Cheryl Crawford 1902 1986 theatrical producer Milton Cross 1897 1975 radio announcer Edward W Curley 1873 1940 U S Congressman George Ticknor Curtis 1812 1894 author writer historian and lawyer Harry Davenport 1866 1949 actor Olive Deering 1918 1986 actress William Wallace Denslow 1856 1915 illustrator Robert De Niro Sr 1922 1993 artist father of actor Robert De Niro Peter DeRose 1900 1953 Hall of Fame composer Elliott Dexter 1870 1941 film and stage actor Lew Dockstader 1856 1924 vaudeville comedian 3 Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832 1904 Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Arthur Donaldson 1869 1955 stage and screen actor Tommy Dorsey 1905 1956 swing era trombonist J Gordon Edwards 1867 1925 silent film director Sherman Edwards 1919 1981 Tony Award winning composer and songwriter Angna Enters 1897 1989 entertainer Judith Evelyn 1909 1967 stage actress Geraldine Farrar 1882 1967 opera singer Sid Farrar 1859 1935 Major League baseball player father of soprano Geraldine Farrar Emanuel Feuermann 1902 1942 master cellist Sylvia Fine 1913 1991 lyricist composer and producer and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye Ezio Flagello 1931 2009 opera singer Gloria Foster 1933 2001 actress Harry Frazee 1880 1929 owner of the Boston Red Sox Lou Gehrig 1903 1941 Hall of Fame baseball player Roy J Glauber 1925 2018 Nobel Laureate Physics Billy Golden 1858 1926 blackface comic and singer Ulu Grosbard 1929 2012 motion picture and stage director producer Marion Harris 1896 1944 singer Valerie Jill Haworth 1945 2011 British actress Mrs Julian Heath 1863 1932 radio personality Grace Henderson 1860 1944 actress Gustave Herter 1830 1898 furniture maker and interior decorator Al Hodge 1912 1979 actor May Irwin 1862 1938 comedian Danny Kaye 1911 1987 comedic actor Guy Kibbee 1882 1956 actor Joseph Kilgour 1863 1933 Canadian actor Ruth Laredo 1937 2005 pianist William Van Duzer Lawrence 1842 1927 founder of Sarah Lawrence College Herbert H Lehman 1878 1963 politician Jeffreys Lewis abt 1852 1926 actress Joseph J Little 1841 1913 U S Representative from New York Cissie Loftus 1876 1943 Scottish born actress singer comedian and vaudevillian Dorothy Loudon 1933 2003 Tony Award winning actress Mario Majeroni 1870 1931 Italian born actor nephew of Adelaide Ristori Tommy Manville 1894 1967 heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune Jack McGowan 1894 1977 Broadway writer performer and producer Claudia McNeil 1917 1993 actress Herman A Metz 1867 1934 U S Congressman Anna Moffo 1932 2006 soprano singer William Muldoon 1852 1933 wrestler Allan Nevins 1890 1971 historian and journalist Anne Nichols 1891 1966 playwright and screenwriter Carlotta Nillson 1876 1951 actress Caroline Love Goodwin O Day 1875 1943 U S Representative from New York Eulace Peacock 1914 1996 track and field athlete Ann Pennington 1893 1971 Ziegfeld actress David Graham Phillips 1867 1911 journalist and novelist Jesse S Phillips 1871 1954 lawyer assemblyman State Insurance Superintendent and insurance executive Harriet Quimby 1875 1912 pioneer aviator Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 1943 composer pianist and conductor Ayn Rand 1905 1982 author philosopher playwright and screenwriter Jacob Ruppert 1867 1939 owner of the New York Yankees Soupy Sales 1926 2009 comedian David Sarnoff 1891 1971 broadcaster and head of RCA Fritzi Scheff 1879 1954 actress and vocalist Gordon Scott 1926 2007 actor Peri Schwartz 1951 2021 artist Gil Scott Heron 1949 2011 singer and musician Ann Shoemaker 1891 1978 actress Richard B Shull 1929 1999 actor Ivan F Simpson 1875 1951 Scottish actor Leo Singer 1877 1950 manager of the Singer Midgets vaudeville group Alison Skipworth 1863 1952 English actress Alfred Holland Smith 1863 1924 president of the New York Central Railroad Howard Smith 1893 1968 character actor Mildred Joanne Smith 1921 2015 actress and educator 4 Peter Moore Speer 1862 1933 U S Congressman Ellsworth Milton Statler 1863 1928 hotelier Henry Stephenson 1871 1956 actor Max Stern 1898 1982 entrepreneur and philanthropist Lewis Stone 1879 1953 actor Oscar W Swift 1869 1940 U S Congressman Fay Templeton 1865 1939 actress Gertrude Thanhouser 1880 1951 actress Benjamin I Taylor 1877 1946 U S Congressman Deems Taylor 1885 1966 composer and journalist Victoria Tolbert 1916 1997 First Lady of Liberia 5 Wen Ying Tsai 1928 2013 cybernetic sculptor William L Ward 1856 1933 U S Congressman Charles Weidman 1901 1975 dancer and choreographer James E West 1876 1948 first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America Spencer Wishart 1889 1914 racecar driver William B Williams 1923 1986 disc jockey John North Willys 1873 1935 automobile manufacturer Charles E Wilson 1886 1972 president of General Electric Francis Wilson 1854 1935 actor Blanche Yurka 1887 1974 theatre and film actress Herbert Zelenko 1906 1979 U S Congressman Florenz Ziegfeld 1869 1932 producer of the Ziegfeld FolliesNotable interments in Sharon Gardens division EditPaddy Chayefsky 1923 1981 screenwriter winner of three Academy Awards Fred Friendly 1915 1998 broadcaster Philip Gips 1931 2019 film poster artist Gilbert Gottfried 1955 2022 comedian Alan Kirschenbaum 1961 2012 television producer and writer Robert Merrill 1917 2004 baritone Metropolitan opera star Freddie Roman 1937 2022 comedian Murray Saltzman 1929 2010 rabbi civil rights leader Beverly Sills 1929 2007 operatic soprano Lee Wallace 1930 2020 actor Elie Wiesel 1928 2016 writer Holocaust survivorImage gallery Edit Mayer tumulus Egyptian Sphinx Tomb The Kane Lodge sphere Pinkney Pyramid Mecca Temple The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery The Ayer statue Grave of Lou Gehrig The Friars Club Monument Tomb of J Gordon Edwards with minaret Daniel monument The monument of Judge John Fitch Amos Sulka mausoleum The cemetery on the Metro North lineReferences Edit Valhalla Kensico Cemetery Commonwealth War Graves Commission Retrieved 19 May 2022 Players by place of burial New York Baseball Stats and Info Baseball Reference com Retrieved December 23 2021 Lew Dockstader Minstrel Is Dead Famous Comedian Succumbs to a Bone Tumor at His Daughter s Home at 68 The New York Times October 27 1924 Retrieved 2015 02 02 Mildred Hepburn Obituary Legacy com Retrieved 22 August 2015 Paid Notice Deaths TOLBERT VICTORIA A The New York Times New York New York 18 November 1997 Retrieved April 12 2022 External links EditKensico Cemetery homepage Kensico Cemetery at Find a GraveCoordinates 41 04 40 N 73 47 11 W 41 0779 N 73 7865 W 41 0779 73 7865 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kensico Cemetery amp oldid 1148828798, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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