Overview
About Elmwood Cemetery
Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The grounds sit at about 607 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 154 notable people buried here, including Lewis Cass, Russell Alexander Alger and Zachariah Chandler. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 625528. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Elliott Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Swanson Funeral Home in Detroit, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 28 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Wayne County dates to 1925. 3 of the 110 listings in Wayne County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable burials
Notable people buried at Elmwood Cemetery
Among them: 15 US representatives, 14 business leaders, 11 US senators, 8 Civil War veterans, 8 writers, 7 musicians, 6 governors, 5 journalists.
- Lewis Cass1782-1866American politician
- Russell Alexander Alger1836-1907Union Army general
- Zachariah Chandler1813-1879American politician
- Frank Nelson1887-1970American pole vaulter
- Edwin Denby1870-1929American politician
- Fred Smith1949-1994American guitarist
- Jacob M. Howard1805-1871American politician
- Lucius Lyon1800-1851American politician
- Robert McClelland1807-1880American governor of Michigan
- Truman Handy Newberry1864-1945American politician
- Coleman Young1918-1997American politician
- Henry P. Baldwin1814-1892American politician
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- John Trumbull1750-1831American poet
- Sam Thompson1860-1922American baseball player
- Alpheus S. Williams1810-1878Union Army general, politician
- Donald M. Dickinson1846-1917American politician and lawyer
- James McMillan1838-1902American politician
- William Woodbridge1780-1861American politician
- John Norvell1789-1850American politician
- Ralph Wilson1918-2014American football executive
- Thomas W. Palmer1830-1913American politician
- Douglass Houghton1809-1845American geologist and botanical collector
- Freddie Gorman1939-2006American recording artist, songwriter and record producer
- Henry Billings Brown1836-1913US Supreme Court justice from 1891 to 1906
- Sylvia Moy1938-2017American songwriter and record producer
- William Austin Burt1792-1858American politician
- George P. Codd1869-1927American politician
- Bronson Howard1842-1908American writer
- George Bryan Porter1791-1834American politician
- Hiram Walker1816-1899American businessman
- James Frederick Joy1810-1896American railroad executive and politician
- John Biddle1792-1859American military officer and politician
- John C. Lodge1862-1950American politician
- John Logan Chipman1830-1893American politician
- Philip St. George Cooke1809-1895Union Army general 1809-1895
- Richard Storrs Willis1819-1900American composer of hymn music
- Solomon Sibley1769-1846American judge
- William C. Maybury1848-1909American politician
- Bela Hubbard1814-1896American explorer, surveyor and geologist
- Charles Beecher Warren1870-1936American diplomat
- David Stuart1816-1868Union Army officer and American politician
- Divie Duffield1870-1935American rower
- Don Davis1938-2014American record producer
- Henry W. Lord1821-1891American politician
- James W. Ames1864-1944American politician, Michigan
- Thomas Williams1815-1862American general, born 1815
- William Alanson Howard1813-1880American politician, Michigan
- Alexander W. Buel1813-1868American politician
- Eber Brock Ward1811-1875American businessman
- George V. N. Lothrop1817-1897American politician
- Henry Bourne Joy1864-1936American President of the Packard Motor Car Company
- Henry Gillman1833-1915Irish-American anthropologist and curator
- Henry Guernsey Hubbard1850-1899American entomologist and horticulturist
- James V. Campbell1823-1890American judge
- James Witherell1759-1838American politician
- John Stoughton Newberry1826-1887American politician
- Levi Cook1792-1866American politician
- Naomi Long Madgett1923-2020American poet
- Oliver Moulton Hyde1804-1870American mayor
- William Edmond Armitage1830-1873American bishop
- Andrew Porter1820-1872United States Army officer
- Charles H. Wright1918-2002American physician
- Charles Merrill1792-1872American entrepreneur and lumber company owner
- Elijah Brush1772-1813American mayor
- Emma Azalia Hackley1867-1922Singer and political activist
- Gershom Mott Williams1857-1923American bishop
- Halmer Hull Emmons1814-1877United States federal judge
- Henry Boynton Clitz1824-1888Class of 1845
- Henry C. Chipman1784-1867American judge
- Henry M. Duffield1842-1912Union Army officer
- Horace Caulkins1850-1923American artist
- John H. Harmon1819-1888American politician (1819-1888); mayor of Detroit from 1852 to 1853
- Josephine Clay Ford1923-2005American philanthropist
- Margaret Mather1859-1898Canadian actress
- Marion Bartlett Thurber1885-1973American political spouse
- Ross Wilkins1799-1872United States federal judge
- Royce Howes1901-1973American journalist
- Samuel T. Douglass1814-1898American judge
- Thomson Jay Hudson1834-1903Parapsychologist
- William E. Quinby1835-1908American newspaper publisher and diplomat
- Alexander Lewis1822-1908American mayor
- Alvan Macauley1872-1952American businessman
- Anastasia Reilly1902-1961Ziegfeld girl
- Charles Christopher Trowbridge1800-1883Explorer, politician, businessman and ethnographer
- Charles Howard1804-1883American businessman (1804-1883); mayor of Detroit in 1849
- George Duffield1794-1868American minister
- George L. Maltz1842-1910Michigan politician
- Gustavus De Russy1818-1891American general
- Hugh Brady1768-1851American general
- James F. Jones1907-1971American minister
- James Robinson1753-1868American soldier
- John Owen1861-1924Athlete
- Kirkland C. Barker1819-1875American mayor
- Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer1838-1916American philanthropist and suffragist
- Samuel Smith Harris1841-1888Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
- Silas Farmer1839-1902American publisher and historian
- Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr.1831-1905Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
- Thornton F. Brodhead1820-1862American Civil War general
- William R. Farrand1853-1930American businessman
- Fannie M. Richards1840-1922American educator
- Fred T. Murphy1872-1948Doctor; American football player
- Frederic W. Swift1831-1916Colonel in US in 1897
- Gustav Adolph Mueller1864-1937German-American architect and sculptor
- Henry Brockholst Ledyard1844-1921American railroad executive
- Henry Clay Hodges1828-1919American manufacturer and publisher
- Hugo Kalsow1876-1942American conductor
- J. P. C. Emmons1816-1877American attorney and politician
- Joseph Campau1769-1863
- Joseph S. Keen1843-1926
- Josephine Harreld Love1914-2003American pianist, arts administrator, musicologist
- Robert Hall1927-2014American basketball player, born 1927
- Rosa Slade Gragg1904-1989American educator, school founder, clubwoman, civic worker and church worker
- William Lambert1817-1890African-American citizen and abolitionist in Detroit, Michigan during the mid to late 19th century
- Alexander Hamilton Redfield1805-1869American lawyer and politician
- Alfred Brushdied 1870
- Alfred Erskine Brush1850-1903Millionaire heir
- Augustus Canfield1801-1854Canfield, Augustus; class of 1822
- Caroline Pitts Brown1843-1901
- Charles Burrall Pike1871-1941American businessman
- Charles S. Burt1857-1921American metallurgist
- Edmund Askin Brush1802-1877American businessman
- Edward H. Butler1841-1928American banker
- Edwin Horatio Nelson1856-1932Canadian-American pharmaceutical manufacturer
- Electus Backus1804-1862Backus, Electus; class of 1824
- Eliza Bradish Biddle1857-1938
- Elizabeth Cass Hunt1825-1913
- Emeline Sterling1812-1890
- Frances Aura Alger1871-1941
- Frederick Stearns1831-1907Pharmaceutical company founder
- Fritz Kalsow1847-1930American music manager, director of Detroit symphony orchestra in 1887-1910
- George Henry Hammond1838-18861838-1886 , meatpacker
- Gwendolyn Currie1890-1982
- Harriet B. Newberry1864-1943President, Society of Colonial Dames; wife of Senator Truman Newberry
- Harriette Ingersoll Lewis1862-1959
- Henry Brown Lothrop1855-1908American businessman and militia officer
- Henry Whiting1788-1851(1788-1851) American soldier
- John Guest Atterbury1811-1887
- John S. Newberry1910-1964American museum official
- Joseph Ferguson1821-1877American physician
- Julius Dewey Morton1808-1865
- Lawrence Isaac Depew1839-1904
- Llewellyn Longfellow Berry1876-1954African Methodist Episcopal minister
- Louise Lovett Wright1919-1985American librarian
- Luther Stephen Trowbridge1836-1912Born 28 Jul 1836; died 2 Feb 1912
- Maria Loraine Wesson1810-1887
- Marie Antoinette Palms Lewis1904-1990
- Mary Sophia Cass1812-18821812-1882
- Matilda Cass Ledyard1871-1960
- Ruth Douglass1824-1850American diarist
- Samuel F. Hodge1822-1884American entrepreneur
- Susan Dayton Ogden1831-1878
- Wesson Seyburn1889-1961Detroit businessman
- William Clay1854-1908American businessman from Detroit, Michigan
- Winifred Dodge1894-1980
People whose Wikidata entry gives Elmwood Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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42.34920, -83.01936
Services & features
What Elmwood Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Within 15 miles
Nearby cemeteries
- Mount Elliott CemeteryDetroit, MICemetery0.2 mi
- Trinity Lutheran CemeteryHamtramck, MILutheran cemetery1.8 mi
- Beth Olem CemeteryHamtramck, MIJewish cemetery2.8 mi
- Bnai - David CemeteryHamtramck, MIJewish cemetery3.5 mi
- Gethsemane CemeteryHamtramck, MICemetery3.9 mi
- Forest Lawn CemeteryHamtramck, MICemetery4.4 mi
- Sacred Heart of Saint Mary CemeteryHamtramck, MICatholic cemetery5.0 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryHamtramck, MICemetery5.2 mi
- Fort Wayne Burial MoundDetroit, MICemetery5.3 mi
- Assumption Grotto Catholic CemeteryEastpointe, MICatholic cemetery5.8 mi
Funeral providers
Funeral homes near Elmwood Cemetery
- Swanson Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 923-1122
- Charles T Cole Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 925-3000
- funeralOne1.6 miFuneral home · Detroit · (800) 798-2575
- Cantrell Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 821-9040
- Eternal Cremations Of Detroit3.0 miCremation provider · Detroit · (313) 217-9734
- Anderson Funeral Home3.0 miFuneral home · Detroit · (715) 286-2222
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Elmwood Cemetery located?
Elmwood Cemetery is at 1200 Elmwood AVenue, Detroit, MI 48207 in Wayne County. GPS coordinates: 42.34920, -83.01936.
Guides
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