Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery

Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery
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1300 Old Hartford Road, Owensboro, Kentucky
No. of intermentsEstimated 55,000

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.

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
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