Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery
Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery is located at 1300 Old Hartford Road in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. There are about 55,000 interments at the cemetery, which is officially recognized as a historical landmark by the state of Kentucky. Notable people buried in the cemetery include a number of US Congressmen, as well as Rainey Bethea, the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.
Notable persons
- Rainey Bethea
- William Thomas Ellis
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Christine Johnson
- James Leeper Johnson
- Thomas Clay McCreery
- John Hardin McHenry Sr
- Johnny Morrison
- William Northcut Sweeney
- Philip Thompson
- Charles Stewart Todd
- George Washington Triplett (1809–1894), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Kentucky Senate and Confederate States Congress
- Philip Triplett
References
- ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (foreword) (2016). "Johnson, Christine #6533". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
- ^ Warner, Ezra J.; Yearns, W. Buck (1975). Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 239–240. Retrieved 2024-02-07 – via Archive.org.
