About Elmwood Cemetery
Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri. It lies about 1.1 mi east of Mexico. The grounds sit at about 814 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 3 notable people buried here, including Aylett Hawes Buckner, James Newton Baskett and Ida May Clendenin. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 717553. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Brendans Catholic Church Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Pickering Funeral Home in Mexico, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 27 cemeteries we list in Audrain County, and 16 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mexico. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Elmwood Cemetery
Among them: 1 scientist, 1 US representative, 1 writer.
- Aylett Hawes Buckner1816-1894American politician
- James Newton Baskett1849-1925American ornithologist and author
- Ida May Clendenin1860-1925American teacher and mycologist
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
39.16864, -91.90405
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.
Nearby cemeteries
- Saint Brendans Catholic Church CemeteryMexico, MOCatholic cemetery0.3 mi
- East Lawn Memorial CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery3.0 mi
- Trinity CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery4.9 mi
- Lockridge CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery5.5 mi
- Bean Creek CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery6.6 mi
- New Hope CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery7.2 mi
- Eubank CemeteryMexico, MOCemetery7.3 mi
- Salt River Church CemeteryMexico, MOChurch cemetery7.4 mi
- New Hope Church CemeteryCentralia, MOChurch cemetery7.8 mi
- Benton City CemeteryMexico, MOMunicipal cemetery7.9 mi
Funeral homes near Elmwood Cemetery
- Pickering Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Mexico · (573) 581-3207
- Arnold Funeral Home Inc1.1 miFuneral home · Mexico · (573) 581-5330
- Maupin Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Auxvasse · (573) 386-2455
- Fenton-Kendrick Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Centralia · (573) 682-3703
- Oliver Funeral Home, L.L.C.13 miFuneral home · Centralia · (573) 682-2161
- Bienhoff Funeral Home LC15 miFuneral home · Laddonia · (573) 373-5331
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