Cemetery in New York, United States
Main entrance The Tower at the upper entrance Mineola Lake An elk statue Kensico Cemetery is acemetery inValhalla, New York , United States. It was founded in 1889, when manyNew York City cemeteries were becoming full andrural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (101.2 ha), it was expanded to 600 acres (240 ha) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres (187 ha) in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboringGate of Heaven Cemetery .
Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including Russian-bornSergei Rachmaninoff , were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of theActors' Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.
The cemetery contains fourCommonwealth war graves , of threeCanadian Army soldiers ofWorld War I and a repatriated AmericanRoyal Air Force airman ofWorld War II .[ 1]
As of December 2021, eightMajor League Baseball players are buried here, includingBaseball Hall of Fame inducteeLou Gehrig .[ 2]
Sharon Gardens is a 76-acre (31 ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 forJewish burials .
Notable interments in Kensico division [ edit ] Virginia Admiral (1915–2000), painter and poet, mother of actorRobert De Niro Hadji Ali (c. 1887-92 – 1937), vaudeville performance artistElizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), author and poetGlenn Anders (1889–1981), American actorEdward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresarioJohn Emory Andrus (1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and U.S. CongressmanPeter Arno (1904–1968), cartoonistAnne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actressWendy Barrie (1912–1978), actressEd Barrow (1868–1953), baseball manager and executiveMarion Bauer (1882–1955), American composerMalcolm Lee Beggs (1907–1956) actorHenri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, creator of theBendel bonnet Theodore Bendix (1862–1935), composer and musical directorVivian Blaine (1921–1995), actress and singerWilliam Blaisdell (1865–1931), actor (plot: Actors' Fund)Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painterPatras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist writerPaul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder ofBonwit Teller department storeEvangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter ofSalvation Army founder, fourth General of the Salvation ArmyHerbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founderSully Boyar (Irvin) (1923–2001), actorMartin Bregman (1926–2018), film producerSamuel Logan Brengle (1860-1936), author, Salvation ArmyCommissioner Russ Brown (1892–1964), actorBillie Burke (1884–1970), American actress, wife ofFlorenz Ziegfeld Henry Burr (1882–1941), Canadian singerWilliam J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actorCheng Chui Ping (1949–2014), 'Snakehead', human smugglerAndy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball playerFrank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actorBigelow Cooper (1867–1953) actorHarry Cooper (1904–2000), golferFrederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of AppealsCheryl Crawford (1902–1986), theatrical producerMilton Cross (1897–1975), radio host and announcerEdward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. CongressmanGeorge Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), author, writer, historian and lawyerHarry Davenport (1866–1949), actorOlive Deering (1918–1986), actressWilliam Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustratorRobert De Niro Sr. (1922–1993), artist, father of actorRobert De Niro Peter DeRose (1900–1953), Hall of Fame composerElliott Dexter (1870–1941), film and stage actorLew Dockstader (1856–1924), vaudeville comedian.[ 3] Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904) Civil War CongressionalMedal of Honor recipientArthur Donaldson (1869–1955), stage and screen actorTommy Dorsey (1905–1956), swing-era trombonist and bandleaderJ. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), silent-film directorSherman Edwards (1919–1981),Tony Award -winning composer and songwriterAngna Enters (1897–1989), entertainerJudith Evelyn (1909–1967), stage actressGeraldine Farrar (1882–1967), operatic sopranoSid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player, father of sopranoGeraldine Farrar Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellistSylvia Fine (1913–1991) lyricist, composer and producer, and the wife of the comedianDanny Kaye Ezio Flagello (1931–2009) operatic bassGloria Foster (1933–2001) actressHarry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of theBoston Red Sox Lou Gehrig (1903–1941),Hall of Fame baseball playerRoy J. Glauber (1925–2018), Nobel Laureate-PhysicsGilbert Gottfried (1955–2022), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strongNew York accent .Billy Golden (1858–1926), blackface comic and singerRose Gregorio (1925–2023), actressUlu Grosbard (1929–2012) motion picture and stage director, producerMarion Harris (1896–1944), singerValerie Jill Haworth (1945–2011), British actressMrs. Julian Heath (1863–1932), radio personalityGrace Henderson (1860–1944), actressGustave Herter (1830–1898), furniture maker and interior decoratorAl Hodge (1912–1979), actorMay Irwin (1862–1938), comedianDanny Kaye (1911–1987), actor and comedianGuy Kibbee (1882–1956), actorJoseph Kilgour (1863–1933), Canadian actorRuth Laredo (1937–2005), pianistWilliam Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), founder ofSarah Lawrence College Corky Lee (1947–2021), photographerHerbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politicianJeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852–1926), actressJoseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New YorkMilton S. Littlefield (1830–1899), Union Army officer[ 4] Cissie Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish-born actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillianDorothy Loudon (1925–2003),Tony Award -winning actressMario Majeroni (1870–1931), Italian-born actor, nephew ofAdelaide Ristori Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to theJohns Manville asbestos fortuneJack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer and producerClaudia McNeil (1917–1993), actressHerman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. CongressmanAnna Moffo (1932–2006), operatic sopranoWilliam Muldoon (1852–1933), wrestlerLon Myers (1858–1899), sprinter and middle distance runner[ 5] Allan Nevins (1890–1971), historian and journalistAnne Nichols (1891–1966), playwright and screenwriterCarlotta Nillson (1876–1951), actressCaroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), U.S. Representative from New YorkJansen Panettiere (1994–2023), actorEulace Peacock (1914–1996), track and field athleteAnn Pennington (1893–1971), Ziegfeld actressDavid Graham Phillips (1867–1911), journalist and novelistJesse S. Phillips (1871–1954), lawyer, assemblyman, State Insurance Superintendent and insurance executiveHarriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviatorSergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer, pianist and conductorAyn Rand (1905–1982), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriterJacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owner of the New York YankeesSoupy Sales (1926–2009), comedianDavid Sarnoff (1891–1971), businessman head ofRCA Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), operatic soprano and actressGordon Scott (1926–2007), actorPeri Schwartz (1951–2021), artistGil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) singer and musicianAnn Shoemaker (1891–1978), actressRichard B. Shull (1929–1999), actorIvan F. Simpson (1875–1951), Scottish actorLeo Singer (1877–1950), manager of the Singer Midgets vaudeville groupAlison Skipworth (1863–1952), English actressAlfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central RailroadHoward Smith (1893–1968), character actorMildred Joanne Smith (1921–2015), actress and educator[ 6] Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. CongressmanEllsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), hotelierHenry Stephenson (1871–1956), actorMax Stern (1898–1982), entrepreneur and philanthropistLewis Stone (1879–1953), actorOscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. CongressmanFay Templeton (1865–1939), actressGertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), actressBenjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. CongressmanDeems Taylor (1885–1966), composer and journalistVictoria Tolbert (1916–1997), First Lady of Liberia[ 7] Wen-Ying Tsai (1928–2013), cybernetic sculptorWilliam L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. CongressmanCharles Weidman (1901–1975), dancer and choreographerJames E. West (1876–1948), firstChief Scout Executive of theBoy Scouts of America Spencer Wishart (1889–1914), racecar driverWilliam B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockeyJohn North Willys (1873–1935), automobile manufacturerCharles E. Wilson (1886–1972), president ofGeneral Electric Francis Wilson (1854–1935), actorBlanche Yurka (1887–1974), theatre and film actressHerbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. CongressmanFlorenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932), producer of theZiegfeld Follies Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division [ edit ] Rhoda Blumberg (1917–2016), authorPaddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), screenwriter, winner of threeAcademy Awards Fred Friendly (1915–1998), broadcasterPhilip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artistGilbert Gottfried (1955–2022), comedian, actorAlan Kirschenbaum (1961–2012), television producer and writerRobert Merrill (1917–2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera starMarshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010), biochemistFreddie Roman (1937–2022), comedianRobert Rosenthal (1917–2007), bomber pilotMurray Saltzman (1929–2010), rabbi, civil rights leaderBeverly Sills (1929–2007), operatic sopranoLew Soloff (1944–2015), jazz trumpeterLee Wallace (1930–2020), actorElie Wiesel (1928–2016), writer,Holocaust survivorEgyptian Sphinx Tomb
The Kane Lodge sphere
Pinkney Pyramid
Mecca Temple
The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery
The Ayer statue
Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with
minaret Daniel monument
The monument of Judge John Fitch
Amos Sulka mausoleum
The cemetery on the Metro North line
41°04′40″N 73°47′11″W / 41.0779°N 73.7865°W /41.0779; -73.7865
