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Many
notable people have been buried here at Glenwood Cemetery over
the past decades. Some famous...some obscure.
Appealing
sculptures yield treasures of artistic interest. Little stone
lambs often mark the graves of infants and small children.
Some
of the personal, touching stories...
- The
parents of a young man named Victor Blundon erected a monument
in 1936 depicting his likeness in stone as well as that of his
beloved constant companion, an Irish setter.
- A
grieving father memorialized a small daughter, Teresina Vasco,
sitting in her rocking chair.
- In
the early years of the twentieth century young Daisy Sterne
died in childbirth.
- For
as long as he survived, her husband planted each spring a blanket
of cultivated daisies on her grave along the west roadway of
Section D, near North Capitol Street.
- At
regular intervals a fire engine bearing new recruits moves reverently
through our gates to honor the grave of young Benjamin Greenup
and visit the monument his Company erected in his memory—the
first fireman killed in the line of duty in the District of
Columbia (1856).
Some of the more notable names...
- Constatino
Brumidi, the Italian refugee known as "the Michelangelo
of the Capitol," proud of this United States citizenship,
worked for twenty-five years adorning the rotunda, corridors,
and committee rooms over five presidencies beginning with Millard
Fillmore. His beautiful paintings, murals, and frescoes draw
thousands of visitors annually. His devotion to his adopted
country is revealed in the inscription under the photo of his
grave marker.
- Emmanual
Leutze, the artist who painted "Washington Crossing the
Delaware"
- Amos
Kendall, a founder of the institution we know today as Gallaudet
University
- John
Luckey McCreery, author of the moving poem "There is no
death; the stars go down...To rise upon some fairer shore..."
- Everett
Cooper, the first black member of the Board of Trustees of Glenwood
and the first black officer to be elected president of the Policemen's
Association of the District of Columbia
- Clarke
Mills, who cast the Statue of Freedom surmounting the Capitol
dome.
- Strong
John Thomson, dedicated teacher of thousands of District of
Columbia boys. The public school at Twelfth and L Streets N.W.
is named for him.
- George
Atzerodt, co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham
Lincoln, is believed secretly buried in an unmarked grave
- Ernest
W. Brown, District of Columbia Police Chief, founder of the
Metropolitan Police Boys' Club, and a past president of the
Board of Trustees of Glenwood Cemetery.
- Gretchen
Hood, opera star, composer. At age twenty-five, she was embraced
on a spiral staircase in Parliament by an impetuous young man
named Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and
very slim"
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