Join us at Hill Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, TN on Friday June 14th, 2024!
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Elmwood Cemetery
824 South Dudley St. Memphis, TN 38104
6/14/2024 9am-3pm

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“Fifty Memphis gentlemen committed $500 each to purchase land and establish a new cemetery 2.5 miles from town in 1852. Originally consisting of 40 acres, it was expanded after the Civil War to 80 acres.

In the 1870s the original corporation was dissolved and Elmwood became one of the oldest nonprofits in Tennessee. 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.”

*info above provided by Elmwoodcemetery.org and images below are provided by our local event co-host Kim Bearden*