About Elmwood Cemetery
Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina. It lies about 1.3 mi southeast of Columbia. Wikidata records 22 notable people buried here, including Alva M. Lumpkin, Christie Benet and Thomas J. Robertson. The nearest other listed cemetery is State Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Elmwood Funeral Home, Cremation Service And Cemetery in Columbia, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 83 cemeteries we list in Richland County, and 54 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 83 listings in Richland County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Columbia. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Elmwood Cemetery
Among them: 3 journalists, 3 US senators, 2 football players, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 World War II veterans, 1 architect, 1 artist, 1 baseball player.
- Alva M. Lumpkin1886-1941American politician
- Christie Benet1879-1951American politician, college football player and coach
- Thomas J. Robertson1823-1897American politician
- Maxcy Gregg1814-1862Confederate Army general
- Duncan Clinch Heyward1864-1943Governor of South Carolina
- James C. Dozier1885-1974United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Alexander Cheves Haskell1839-1910American judge and politician
- Ambrose E. Gonzales1857-1926American businessman
- Charles Coker Wilson1864-1933American architect, active in South Carolina
- Edward Southey Joynes1834-1917American scholar
- Kirby Higbe1915-1985American baseball player
- Narciso Gener Gonzales1858-1903American newspaper founder
Show all 22 notable burials
- Samuel Isett Woodbridge1856-1913American missionary
- Warren Giese1924-2013American football player and coach, state legislator
- Anna Heyward Taylor1879-1956American painter and printmaker
- Cadwallader Jones1813-1899American lawyer, legislator, and Confederate officer
- Harry Lightsey1901-1986American football player
- Sallie Rhett Roman1844-1921Southern writer
- Irvine Belser1889-1969American lawyer
- Lewis Parke Chamberlayne1879-1917American classical philologist
- Malvina Sarah Waring1842-1930
- Wilie Jones1850-1936
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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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
- State CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery0.2 mi
- Saint Peters CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery0.2 mi
- Douglas CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery0.2 mi
- Randolph CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery0.3 mi
- Hebrew Benevolent Society CemeteryColumbia, SCJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryColumbia, SCJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- St Peter's CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery1.0 mi
- Geiger Ave. CemeteryColumbia, SCCemetery1.0 mi
- Taylor Evangelical Methodist Church CemetaryColumbia, SCChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Taylor Burying GroundColumbia, SCCemetery1.4 mi
Funeral homes near Elmwood Cemetery
- Elmwood Funeral Home, Cremation Service And Cemetery0.2 miFuneral home · Columbia · (803) 252-2133
- A.A. Dicks Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Columbia · (803) 254-4673
- Thompson Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Columbia · (803) 996-1023
- McAlister-Smith Funeral and Cremation West Columbia1.4 miCremation provider · West Columbia · (803) 999-5015
- South Carolina Cremation Society1.5 miCremation provider · West Columbia · (803) 594-0705
- Lower Richland Chapel1.6 miFuneral home · Columbia · (803) 776-6922
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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