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OUR CEMETERY: Famous Residents

 

There are a number of historical persons of note who are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.  The following list coordinates with the sections and locations on the map.

 

  NAME

  NOTES

  SEC.

LOC.

  ADAMS, Henry & Marian

  Author/Diplomat (Sculp. By St. Gaudens)

E

16

  ALLEN, Alice Warfield

  Mother of the Duchess of Windsor

G

46

  ARMSTRONG, Frank Crawford

  General, Confederate Army

L

53

  BALDWIN, Abraham

  Signer of the U.S. Constitution

E

17

  BLAIR, Montgomery

  Postmaster General in Pres. Lincoln's Cabinet

A

2

  BLACKISTONE, Zachariah D.

  Well known Washington Florist

14

40

  BELL, Melville

  Father of Alexander Graham Bell

A

6

  BERLINER, Emile

  Inventor/Electrical Engineer

M

23

  BOARDMAN, William Jarvis

  Sculpture by Brownze "Journey Through Life"

A

35

  BRADFORD, John

  Donor of the original 100 acre Glebe

O

38

  CUCHANAN, Robert Christie

  General, Union Army

A

50

  BURNS, David

  Sold farm to US, 1791 now downtown DC

C

22

  CASSEDY, John and Vesta

  Founders, National Park Seminary

R-11

56

  CLABAUGH, Harry N.

  Chief Justice, DC Supreme Court

R-11

27

  CORBY, Charles (Mausoleum)

  Baking Innovator, Wonderbread

13

42

  DACOR Sections

  Diplomatic & Consular Officers, retired

1 and 2

26

  EMERY, Matthew G.

  Mayor, Washington City, until 1871

A

5

  FFOULKE, Charles M.

  Banker, Sculpture "Rabboni" by Gutzon Borglum

B

9

  FORCE, Peter

  Mayor of Washington, 1836-1840

B

7

  FRENCH, William Henry

  General, Union Army

B

52

  GARFINKEL, Julius

  Founder, Garfinckel's Department Store

R-11

36

  GROSVENOR, Gilbert H.

  Chairman, National Geographic Society

A

54

  HARLAN, John Marshall

  Justice, US Supreme Court

R-11

28

  HARRIS, Patricia

  Sec. Health/Human Services for Carter

20

44

  HEURICH, Christian

  Washington Brewers (Family Mausoleum)

30

43

  HIBBS, William B.

  Banker (Gothic Chapel Mausoleum)

B

33

  HOLMEAD Burying Ground

  Graves moved in the Cemetery, 1881

K

39

  JENKINS, Charles Truman

  Inventor of television

10

31

  KAUFFMAN, Samuel H.

  Publisher, Washington Evening Star (Memory)

B

11

  LANSBURGH, Henry

  Founder, Lansburgh's Department Store

10

41

  LEITER, Levi Z.

  Capitalist and Merchant (Last Supper)

L

24

  LEMON, George

  Founder, National Tribune

U

18

  LENTHALL, John

  Clerk of Works, US Capitol 1803-1808

A

1

  LONGWORTH, Alice Roosevelt

  President's Daughter/House Speaker's Wife

F

51

  MacARTHUR, Arthur

  Jurist; Douglas MacArthur's Grandfather

I

20

  McCULLOCH, Hugh

  Treasury Secretary for Lincoln and Arthur

B

4

  NOYES, Crosby S.

  Editor, Washington Evening Star

B

4

  PARET, William

  6th Bishop, Diocese of MD & DC

D

13

  POE, Rosalie Mackenzie

  Sister of Edgar Allan Poe

D

13

  RICHARDSON, William E.

  1st Municipal Appeals Court Chief Judge

4

57

  RIGGS, George Washington

  Founder of Riggs Bank

D

14

  ROPER, Daniel C.

  Commerce Sec. For F D Roosevelt

R-11

30

  SAUNDERS, William

  Founder, The Grange

E

49

  SHEPHERD, Alexander "Boss"

  Last D.C. Territorial Governor

K

21

  SIMON, Anna

  (Sculpture by Brenda Putman)

O

34

  SINCLAIR, Upton

  Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner

17

45

  SMITH, Samuel Harrison

  Founder, National Intelligencer

A

3

  STAUNTON, Sidney A.

  Admiral, US Navy

B

12

  STONE, Harlon Fiske

  Chief Justice of the United States

A

55

  THOMPSON, John R.

  Founder, The Grange

E

48

  VAN DEVANTER, Willis

  Justice, U. S. Supreme Court

R-11

29

  VELATI Family Mausoleum

  Washington Candy Makers

M

37

  WALCOTT, Charles D.

  Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

L

25

  WELLES, Sumner

  Under Secretary of State for FDR

8

32

  WILLIAMSON, James A.

  General, Union Army

E

47