Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)

Background Since the 1830s, a new trend crossed the East Coast of the United States of replacing the old English trend of having cemeteries at churches or town squares, in favor of the rural cemetery to enhance sanitation and expandability for vaults, mausoleums, monuments, and naturalistic landscape architecture. This predated the prevalence of city parks in America, and cemeteries were a family destination park for leisure trips. Founding ==Notable burials==

Kansas City mayors • Edward Herrick Allen • Thomas B. Bullene (1828–1894), mayor and businessman • James Cowgill • Webster Davis • Turner Anderson Gill • William S. Gregory, first mayor of the Town of Kansas • Henry C. Kumpf • Francis R. Long (1812–1881), mayor and banker Others • Mary McAfee Atkins, donated money for the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art • Simeon Brooks Armour, meat packing patriarch • Tom Bass, African American horse trainer • William Patterson Borland, Congressman; sculpture by Jorgen Dreyer • James Dallas Bowser, journalist • Sarah Chandler Coates • Jacob Loose, Hydrox cookie maker and namesake of Loose Park, has a mausoleum • William Warner, Congressman • John W. Wofford (1837–1907), judge and member of the Georgia State Senate and Georgia House of Representatives ==References==