Cemetery in New York, United States
Main entrance The Tower at the upper entrance Mineola Lake An elk statue Kensico Cemetery , located in Valhalla , Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (1.0 km2 ), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km2 ) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres (1.87 km2 ) in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery .
Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including Russian-born Sergei Rachmaninoff , were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the Actors' Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.
The cemetery contains four Commonwealth war graves , of three Canadian Army soldiers of World War I and a repatriated American Royal Air Force airman of World War II .[1]
As of December 2021, eight Major League Baseball players are buried here, including Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Lou Gehrig .[2]
Sharon Gardens is a 76-acre (31 ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 for Jewish burials .
Notable interments in Kensico division Virginia Admiral (1915–2000), painter and poet, mother of actor Robert De Niro Hadji Ali (c. 1887-92 – 1937), vaudeville performance artistElizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), author and poetGlenn Anders (1889–1981), American actorEdward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresarioJohn Emory Andrus (1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and U.S. CongressmanPeter Arno (1904–1968), cartoonistAnne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actressWendy Barrie (1912–1978), actressEd Barrow (1868–1953), baseball manager and executiveMarion Bauer (1882–1955), American composerMalcolm Lee Beggs (1907–1956) actorHenri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, creator of the Bendel bonnet Theodore Bendix (1862–1935), composer and musical directorVivian Blaine (1921–1995), actress and singerWilliam Blaisdell (1865–1931), actor (plot: Actors' Fund)Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painterPatras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist writerPaul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder of Bonwit Teller department storeEvangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder, fourth General of the Salvation ArmyHerbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founderSully Boyar (Irvin) (1923–2001), actorMartin Bregman (1926–2018), film producerSamuel Logan Brengle (1860-1936), author, Salvation Army Commissioner Russ Brown (1892–1964), actorBillie Burke (1884–1970), American actress, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld Henry Burr (1882–1941), Canadian singerWilliam J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actorCheng Chui Ping (1949–2014), 'Snakehead', human smugglerAndy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball playerFrank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actorBigelow Cooper (1867–1953) actorHarry Cooper (1904–2000), golferFrederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of AppealsCheryl Crawford (1902–1986), theatrical producerMilton Cross (1897–1975), radio host and announcerEdward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. CongressmanGeorge Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), author, writer, historian and lawyerHarry Davenport (1866–1949), actorOlive Deering (1918–1986), actressWilliam Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustratorRobert De Niro Sr. (1922—1993), artist, father of actor Robert De Niro Peter DeRose (1900–1953), Hall of Fame composerElliott Dexter (1870–1941), film and stage actorLew Dockstader (1856–1924), vaudeville comedian.[3] Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904) Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipientArthur Donaldson (1869–1955), stage and screen actorTommy Dorsey (1905–1956), swing-era trombonist and bandleaderJ. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), silent-film directorSherman Edwards (1919–1981), Tony Award -winning composer and songwriterAngna Enters (1897–1989), entertainerJudith Evelyn (1909–1967), stage actressGeraldine Farrar (1882–1967), operatic sopranoSid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player, father of soprano Geraldine Farrar Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellistSylvia Fine (1913–1991) lyricist, composer and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye Ezio Flagello (1931–2009) operatic bassGloria Foster (1933–2001) actressHarry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of the Boston Red Sox Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), Hall of Fame baseball playerRoy J. Glauber (1925–2018), Nobel Laureate-PhysicsGilbert Gottfried (1955–2022), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York accent .Billy Golden (1858–1926), blackface comic and singerRose Gregorio (1925–2023), actressUlu Grosbard (1929–2012) motion picture and stage director, producerMarion Harris (1896–1944), singerValerie Jill Haworth (1945–2011), British actressMrs. Julian Heath (1863–1932), radio personalityGrace Henderson (1860–1944), actressGustave Herter (1830–1898), furniture maker and interior decoratorAl Hodge (1912–1979), actorMay Irwin (1862–1938), comedianDanny Kaye (1911–1987), actor and comedianGuy Kibbee (1882–1956), actorJoseph Kilgour (1863–1933), Canadian actorRuth Laredo (1937–2005), pianistWilliam Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), founder of Sarah Lawrence College Corky Lee (1947–2021), photographerHerbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politicianJeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852–1926), actressJoseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New YorkCissie Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish-born actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillianDorothy Loudon (1933–2003), Tony Award -winning actressMario Majeroni (1870–1931), Italian-born actor, nephew of Adelaide Ristori Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortuneJack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer and producerClaudia McNeil (1917–1993), actressHerman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. CongressmanAnna Moffo (1932–2006), operatic sopranoWilliam Muldoon (1852–1933), wrestlerAllan Nevins (1890–1971), historian and journalistAnne Nichols (1891–1966), playwright and screenwriterCarlotta Nillson (1876–1951), actressCaroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), U.S. Representative from New YorkJansen Panettiere (1994–2023), actorEulace Peacock (1914–1996), track and field athleteAnn Pennington (1893–1971), Ziegfeld actressDavid Graham Phillips (1867–1911), journalist and novelistJesse S. Phillips (1871–1954), lawyer, assemblyman, State Insurance Superintendent and insurance executiveHarriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviatorSergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer, pianist and conductorAyn Rand (1905–1982), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriterJacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owner of the New York YankeesSoupy Sales (1926–2009), comedianDavid Sarnoff (1891–1971), businessman head of RCAFritzi Scheff (1879–1954), operatic soprano and actressGordon Scott (1926–2007), actorPeri Schwartz (1951–2021), artistGil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) singer and musicianAnn Shoemaker (1891–1978), actressRichard B. Shull (1929–1999), actorIvan F. Simpson (1875–1951), Scottish actorLeo Singer (1877–1950), manager of the Singer Midgets vaudeville groupAlison Skipworth (1863–1952), English actressAlfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central RailroadHoward Smith (1893–1968), character actorMildred Joanne Smith (1921–2015), actress and educator[4] Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. CongressmanEllsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), hotelierHenry Stephenson (1871–1956), actorMax Stern (1898–1982), entrepreneur and philanthropistLewis Stone (1879–1953), actorOscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. CongressmanFay Templeton (1865–1939), actressGertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), actressBenjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. CongressmanDeems Taylor (1885–1966), composer and journalistVictoria Tolbert (1916–1997), First Lady of Liberia[5] Wen-Ying Tsai (1928–2013), cybernetic sculptorWilliam L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. CongressmanCharles Weidman (1901–1975), dancer and choreographerJames E. West (1876–1948), first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America Spencer Wishart (1889–1914), racecar driverWilliam B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockeyJohn North Willys (1873–1935), automobile manufacturerCharles E. Wilson (1886–1972), president of General Electric Francis Wilson (1854–1935), actorBlanche Yurka (1887–1974), theatre and film actressHerbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. CongressmanFlorenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932), producer of the Ziegfeld Follies
Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division Rhoda Blumberg (1917–2016), authorPaddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards Fred Friendly (1915–1998), broadcasterPhilip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artistGilbert Gottfried (1955–2022), comedian, actorAlan Kirschenbaum (1961–2012), television producer and writerRobert Merrill (1917–2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera starMarshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010), biochemistFreddie Roman (1937–2022), comedianRobert Rosenthal (1917–2007), bomber pilotMurray Saltzman (1929–2010), rabbi, civil rights leaderBeverly Sills (1929–2007), operatic sopranoLew Soloff (1944–2015), jazz trumpeterLee Wallace (1930–2020), actorElie Wiesel (1928–2016), writer, Holocaust survivor
Image gallery Egyptian Sphinx Tomb
The Kane Lodge sphere
Pinkney Pyramid
Mecca Temple
The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery
The Ayer statue
Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with
minaret Daniel monument
The monument of Judge John Fitch
Amos Sulka mausoleum
The cemetery on the Metro North line
References ^ "Valhalla (Kensico) Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 19 May 2022 . ^ "Players by place of burial: New York Baseball Stats and Info". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved December 23, 2021 . ^ "Lew Dockstader, Minstrel, Is Dead. Famous Comedian Succumbs to a Bone Tumor at His Daughter's Home at 68". The New York Times . October 27, 1924. Retrieved 2015-02-02 . ^ "Mildred Hepburn Obituary". Legacy.com . Retrieved 22 August 2015 . ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths TOLBERT, VICTORIA A." The New York Times . New York, New York. 18 November 1997. Retrieved April 12, 2022 .
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