Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio
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Green Lawn Cemetery is a large and historically significant burial ground
Cemetery
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 in Central Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

, United States. Located in the southern section of Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 (at the western terminus of Greenlawn Avenue), it is the final resting place for many local notables and well-known figures from national history. Green Lawn was the most fashionable and sought after final address in Columbus, and still maintains that reputation today.

Founded in 1848, the facility covers over 360 acres (1.5 km²) and contains nearly 150,000 interments.

The crypts span the breadth of late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century architectural movements, including some styled in the Mesopotamian–Egyptian style favored during the burst of "Egyptian mania" enjoyed after Howard Carter
Howard Carter
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's discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Some of the largest family crypts that can be seen are those of the Hayden, Battelle, and Packard families. Also entombed here with their own private burial plots surrounding the central crypt is the Lazarus family, the patriarchal line that founded and ran the popular department store chains known as The F&R Lazarus & Company
Lazarus (department store)
F&R Lazarus & Company — commonly known as Lazarus — was a regional department store retail chain operating primarily in the U.S. Midwest, and based in Columbus, Ohio...

, The John Shillito Company
John Shillito Company
John Shillito & Co. was Cincinnati's first department store. It was founded by John Shillito and William McLaughlin in 1832 as "McLaughlin & Shillito", but their partnership soon broke up. In 1857, Shillito, now operating on his own, built a store on Fourth Street, designed by James W. McLaughlin...

, and Federated Department Stores
Federated Department Stores
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.

There are specialized burial areas similar to those found in many other large cemeteries. Specifically, there is "Lullabye Land" where stillborns and infant deaths are laid to rest. Also here are six distinct areas for war veterans, each one a section dedicated to a specific American war and including the oldest section towards the western rear of the cemetery for Civil War
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 veterans of Ohio infantry battalions. A famous monument is erected towards the westernmost boundary for the "Soldiers and Sailors" memorial movement.

The center building of the cemetery is the mausoleum and chapel. This building was originally erected in 1902, and then was subsequently added to with an additional wing and carillon bells
Carillon
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 in the 1960s. Here can be found intricate precious-stone mosaics on the walls and stained-glass windows commissioned by the Board of Trustees from the famous Tiffany
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 glassworks studio.

Changes to Columbus growth patterns, and demographics have reshaped the cemetery. Once located in the rural outskirts of Columbus, the cemetery is now surrounded by residential neighborhoods, industrial facilities and Cooper Stadium
Cooper Stadium
Cooper Stadium is a baseball stadium in Columbus, Ohio and was the home of the minor league Columbus Clippers from 1977 to 2008. Cooper Stadium has had several names over the years, including Red Bird Stadium, Jets Stadium and Franklin County Stadium, but in 1984 the stadium was renamed in honor of...

 (the home of the AAA
Minor league baseball
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 Columbus Clippers
Columbus Clippers
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 baseball
Baseball
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 team until 2008). This has shifted the main entrance of Green Lawn away from the western, Brown Road (State Route 62) Gate to the eastern gate on Greenlawn Avenue.

Green Lawn was intended by the Board of Trustees overseeing it to be not just a cemetery but also a significant city park and public gathering area, as was the intent of all cemeteries of the "Rural cemetery
Rural cemetery
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" movement of the 1840s and 1850s. To this effect, the cemetery is a large sprawling complex, incorporating over 25 miles (40.2 km) of roads, paths, and lanes. It has arbors
Pergola
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 and a butterfly preserve, and at its central pond (also known as "The Pit Pond") is a recognized Audubon Society viewing site.

Notable persons buried here

Five former governors of the State of Ohio are interred in the cemetery as well as five Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor
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 recipients. Other national and Ohio notables include:
  • Charles A. Bond, Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
    Columbus, Ohio
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     (1908-1909) and founder of Bond Clothing, the first United States national men's clothing chain store company
  • Thomas Blakiston
    Thomas Blakiston
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    , an English explorer and naturalist (1832-1891)
  • John W. Bricker
    John W. Bricker
    John William Bricker was a United States Senator and the 54th Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.-Early life:...

    , Ohio Governor, U.S. Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate as Thomas Dewey
    Thomas Dewey
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    's running mate in 1944.
  • Samuel Bush, industrialist and grandfather of U.S. President
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     George H.W. Bush and great-grandfather of George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
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    .
  • William Dennison, Ohio Governor (1860-1862)
  • Henry Beecher Dierdorff
    Henry Beecher Dierdorff
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    , engineer and mining pioneer
  • Cromwell Dixon
    Cromwell Dixon
    Cromwell Dixon was the first person to fly across the Continental Divide.-Biography:Cromwell Dixon was born in 1892 in San Francisco; later his family moved to Columbus, Ohio. As a boy, Dixon showed his inventing skills by building a rollercoaster for the neighborhood kids; in 1903 he built his...

    , aviation pioneer, first person to fly over the Continental Divide
    Continental Divide
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     (1911)
  • Washington Gladden
    Washington Gladden
    Washington Gladden was a leading American Congregational church pastor and early leader of the Social Gospel movement. He was a leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio, City Council and campaigning against Boss Tweed as acting editor of...

    , minister, social reformer
  • Otis Harlan
    Otis Harlan
    -Biography:Harlan was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1865. He married Nellie Harvey and had a daughter named Marion. Harlan was the uncle of silent actor Kenneth Harlan.-Career:...

    , actor, voice of Happy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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  • P.W. Huntington, founder of Huntington National Bank
  • Alexander Livingston
    Alexander Livingston
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     creator of the paragon tomato which yielded a uniform fruit over a harvest season, allowing it to be the first commercial tomato.
  • John G. Mitchell, American Civil War general in the Union Army
  • Max Moorhouse, merchant and first person to commission air freight delivery of goods (November 7, 1910)
  • Frank Packard
    Frank Packard
    Frank L. Packard was a prominent architect in Ohio.He designed the porch for the home of President Warren G. Harding in Marion, Ohio . Known as stick style architecture the house was designed by Harding and his wife and constructed in a neoclassical architecture style...

    , architect
  • Joseph H. Potter
    Joseph H. Potter
    Joseph Haydn Potter was a career soldier from the state of New Hampshire who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was twice a prisoner of war and was cited for gallantry on multiple occasions.-Early life and career:Potter born in Concord, New Hampshire, on...

    , American Civil War general in the Union Army
  • James A. Rhodes
    Jim Rhodes
    James Allen Rhodes was an American Republican politician from Ohio, and one of only five US state governors to serve four four-year terms in office. As governor in 1970, he decided to send National Guard troops onto the Kent State University campus, resulting in the shooting of students on May 4...

    , Ohio Governor (1963-71, 1975-83), Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
    Columbus, Ohio
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     (1944-1952)
  • Eddie Rickenbacker
    Eddie Rickenbacker
    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.-Early...

    , WWI
    World War I
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     flying ace, race car driver, industrialist and one-time owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and CEO of Eastern Air Lines
    Eastern Air Lines
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  • Alice Schille
    Alice Schille
    Alice Schille was an American watercolorist and painter.Schille was born in Columbus, Ohio and attended the Columbus Art School beginning in 1891, and studied at the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship under William Merritt Chase. There she studied figure drawing with Kenyon Cox...

    , watercolor artist
  • James H. Snook
    James H. Snook
    James Howard Snook was an Ohio athlete and physician convicted and executed for murder.-Biography:...

    , Ohio State University Professor and convicted murderer
  • Lucas Sullivant, land surveyor, founder of Franklinton, Ohio
    Franklinton, Columbus, Ohio
    Franklinton is a neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. Lucas Sullivant, a Virginia born land surveyor, established Franklinton in 1797. It is bordered by the Scioto River on the north and east, Harmon Avenue on the east, Stimmel Road and Greenlawn Avenue on the south, and Interstate 70 on the west...

  • Russell Baird Tewksbury, (1859-1939)
  • James Thurber
    James Thurber
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    , humorist, author, and New Yorker columnist
  • Charles C. Walcutt
    Charles C. Walcutt
    Charles Carroll Walcutt was an American surveyor, soldier, and politician. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, in which he was wounded twice....

    , Civil War general and postbellum Mayor of Columbus
  • Rev. Thomas Woodrow, grandfather of U.S. President
    President of the United States
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     Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson
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