Featuring almost 1,500 trees within 80 acres, hundreds of Elmwood's trees are labeled including one state champion tree, an Atlas Cedar. Historical Person Search Search Results mary newey (1699 - Unknown) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person’s profile We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person’s profile. Because of its importance as a tree collection, the cemetery was designated as a Level II Arboretum by the Tennessee Department of Urban Forestry in 1997. The grounds of Elmwood Cemetery were entered on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2002.
Elmwood is the final resting place of those who created Memphis history and has emerged today as Memphis' finest and oldest active cemetery. Newey and her late husband helped more than 1,000 Assyrians become American citizens after World War II. Newey, founder of the Assyrian United Church of Christ, died yesterday in Alexian Brothers hospital. These ideas are reflected in the many magnificent monuments, mausoleums and life-sized figures. Mary Newey, 73, of 1034 Altgeld st., widow of the Rev. During the Victorian Era, the popular view of death became romanticized death was now represented by symbols including angels, flowers, and plants. Clinton Batchdler who has materially aided in this work, This Volume is most respectfully Dedicated by The Author. It is a classic example of a garden cemetery with its park-like setting, sweeping vistas, shady knolls, large stands of ancient trees, and magnificent monuments. 1898 TflE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AST08, LRNOX iNT> TILDSLN -(U NlJAIIf>.N'S To My Friend, Geo. Elmwood was established as part of the Rural Cemetery Movement which swept the nation in the early to mid 1800s. In the great fire the Herald’s College was destroyed, but it was afterward rebuilt bj the heralds themselves from designs said to be by Sir Christopher Wren, and on a site given by Queen Mary. Since then, Elmwood Cemetery has become the final resting place to over 75,000 inhabitants including mayors, governors, madams, blues singers, suffragists, martyrs, generals, civil rights leaders, holy men and women, outlaws and millionaires. Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Rouge Dragon, and Portcullis. The dramatic Entry Bridge, the Carpenter-Gothic Office Cottage the entire 80-acre cemetery are all on the National Register of Historic Places, and Elmwood is also an official Bird Sanctuary and Arboretum. In the 1870s the original corporation was dissolved and Elmwood became one of the oldest nonprofits in Tennessee. Elmwood is the most historic ground in this part of the world. Originally consisting of 40 acres, it was expanded after the Civil War to 80 acres. Historical Person Search Search Results Mary Newey (1853 - 1916) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person’s profile We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person’s profile. Fifty Memphis gentlemen committed $500 each to purchase land and establish a new cemetery 2.5 miles from town in 1852.
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