Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery

Cemetery in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky

Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery

Details
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

^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (foreword) (2016). "Johnson, Christine #6533". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
^ Warner, Ezra J.; Yearns, W. Buck (1975). Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 239–240. Retrieved 2024-02-07 – via Archive.org.

External links

Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery Website
Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rosehill – Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum North
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rosehill – Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum South