List of Elmwood Cemetery burials

This is a list of Elmwood Cemetery burials, listing the more notable figures among the approximately 130,000 people buried at Elmwood Cemetery, which opened in the 1880s as "Elm Leaf Cemetery" and has been expanded to 412 acres, and is, as such, one of the largest cemeteries in the United States.

Academics and educators

• Thomas Dill (1825-1901), professor and dean at Howard College
• Otis Dismuke (1958–2015), community educator
• William Geer (1922–2003), Samford University business school dean
• Randy Marsh (1948-2005), Alabama School of Fine Arts faculty and Birmingham Festival Theatre cofounder

Actors and media figures

• Anna Lee Carroll (1930–2017), actor
• John Forney (1927–1997), University of Alabama play-by-play radio announcer
• Pat Gray (1940–2020), television host
• Cliff Holman (1929–2008), magician and television host
• John Wright (1927-2015), communications director, actor and social activist

Artists, musicians and writers

• James Saxon Childers (1899–1965), novelist
• Evelyn Starks Hardy (1923-2015), gospel star and music teacher
• Erskine Hawkins (1914–1993), musician and bandleader
• A. C. Keily (1908–2004), photographer
• Eddie Kendricks (1939–1992), singer, co-founder of The Temptations
• Dan Sartain (1981–2021), rock musician and barber
• Sun Ra (1914–1993), jazz musician

Athletes and coaches

• Bear Bryant (1913–1983), University of Alabama football coach
• Ben Chapman (1908–1993), baseball player
• Piper Davis (1917–1989), baseball player
• Joe Domnanovich (1919–2009), football player
• Wiley Griggs (1925-1996), baseball player
• Sam Hairston (1920–1997), baseball player
• Lum Harris (1915–1996), baseball manager
• Dee Miles (1909–1976), baseball player
• Jim Pyburn (1932–2011), baseball player and football coach
• Bo Russell (1916–1997), baseball player
• Ed Salem (1928–2001), football player and restaurateur
• Pat Sullivan (1950–2019), football player and coach
• Gene Walker (1893–1924), motorcycle racer
• Clarence Yaryan (1892–1964), baseball player

Clergy

• James Coyle (1873–1921), Catholic priest
• Milton Grafman (1907–1995), Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
• James Hall (1855-1936), Presbyterian minister and educator
• Abraham Woods Jr (1928–2008), minister, Civil Rights activist

Business executives

• Mike Boackle (1912-1986), restaurateur and club owner
• Charley Boswell (1916–1995), blind golfer and insurance executive
• Louis V. Clark (1862-1934), insurance executive, developer and Alabama National Guard officer
• George Crawford (1869-1936), President of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company 1907-1930
• Henry T. DeBardeleben (1874–1948), coal executive
• Jody Ford (1935-1977) hairstylist and salon owner, notable for being openly transgender in the 1970s.
• William Graves (1833-1931), attorney and real estate developer
• Victor Hanson (1876–1945), publisher of the Birmingham News
• J. F. B. Jackson (1830-1912), business investor
• Robert Jemison Jr (1878–1974), real estate developer
• Erskine Ramsay (1864–1953), mining engineer, executive, inventor and philanthropist
• Rufus Rhodes (1856–1910), founder of the Birmingham News
• Frank Rushton (1875–1927), ice company executive
• Fred Sington (1910–1998), football player and sporting goods retailer
• Sidney Smyer (1897-1985), president of the Birmingham Realty Company
• Herbert Tutwiler (1882-1945), industrialist, executive
• Leon Vlahos (1935-2008), confectioner
• George R. Ward (1839–1896), merchant and hotelier
• Margaret Ward (1841–1919), proprietor of the Relay House hotel
• Newman Waters (1897-1973), theater executive and real estate developer
• Joseph Woodward (1843-1917), president of Woodward Iron Company
• R. L. Zeigler (1890–1964), president of R. L. Zeigler & Co.

Military personnel

• William Wirt Allen (1835–1894), Confederate Major General
• Henry Badham Jr (1892-1978), aviator, Air National Guard Brigadier General
• William Badham (1895-1991), aviator, Air Force Brigadier General
• Red Erwin (1921–2002), Medal of Honor recipient
• Bill Terry Jr (1949–1969), Vietnam veteran

Politicians

• Truman H. Aldrich (1848–1932), U.S. Representative 1896–1897
• Arlie Barber (1873-1958), seed dealer and Birmingham City Commissioner
• Sydney Bowie (1865–1928), U.S. Representative 1901–1907
• Louise Charlton (1889–1967), U.S. Commissioner and judge
• B. B. Comer (1848–1927), industrialist, Governor of Alabama 1907–1911, U.S. Senator 1920
• Russell Cunningham (1855–921), Governor of Alabama 1904–1905
• William Henry Denson (1846–1906), U.S. Representative 1893–1895
• Culpepper Exum (1866–1920), Mayor of Birmingham
• William Grubb (1862-1935), U.S. District Court judge
• Art Hanes (1916–1997), Mayor of Birmingham 1961–1963
• John Hodnett (1927-2017), Mayor of Hoover
• Fred Horn (1925-2018), Alabama state senator 1975-1995
• George Huddleston Sr (1869–1960), U.S. Representative 1915–1937
• George Huddleston Jr (1920–1971), U.S. Representative 1955–1965
• Joseph Johnston (1843–1913), Governor of Alabama 1896-1900, U. S. Senator 1907–1913
• Larry Langford (1948-2019), Mayor of Fairfield and Birmingham, President of Jefferson County Commission
• Virginia Mayfield (died 1944), judge
• John P. Newsome (1893–1961), U.S. Representative 1943–1945
• Luther Patrick (1894–1957), U.S. Representative 1937–1943
• John Scates (1906-1980), Mayor of Vestavia Hills
• Jesse Stallings (1856–1928), U.S. Representative 1893–1901
• Oscar Underwood (1862–1929), U.S. Senator 1915–1927
• George B. Ward (1867–1940), Mayor of Birmingham
• James Weatherly (1856–1930) Birmingham City Commissioner 1911–1917
• Frank White (1847–1922), U.S. Senator 1914–1915

Other

• Henry Aizenman, (1931–2008), holocaust survivor
• Mary Anderson (1866–1953), inventor of the windshield wiper
• Donald Beatty (1900–1980), aviator, explorer and inventor
• Charles Carraway (1878-1963), physician
• James Dovel (1868-1948), engineer
• Sam Fiorella (1925-1991), bookmaker
• Patti Ruffner Jacobs (1875–1935), social reformer
• Caroline Johnson (1868–1957), wife of Crawford Johnson, civic activist
• Denise McNair (1951–1963), victim of the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church, relocated in 2007 from Shadow Lawn Memorial Park
• Bem Price (1883–1936), architect
• Charles Salvagio (1953–2020), attorney
• Joseph Riley Smith (1818–1905), surgeon, publisher, landowner and developer

External links

• Elmwood Cemetery at Find-A-Grave
• Elmwood Cemetery at the Political Graveyard