Kensico Cemetery

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Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York
The Tower at the upper entrance to Kensico Cemetery
Mineola Lake in Kensico Cemetery
The statue of an elk in Kensico Cemetery

Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (1.0 km2), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km²) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres (1.9 km²) in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Several baseball players are buried in this cemetery.

Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including the Russian born Sergei Rachmaninoff, were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the Actors' Fund of America and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.

Sharon Gardens is a 76-acre (31 ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 for Jewish burials.

Notable interments in Kenciso division

  • Richard Abbott (1899-1986) - Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Section, Lot 453
  • Mary Adams (1910-1973) - Actress. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Glenn Anders (1889–1981), American actor
  • Edward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresario
  • John Emory Andrus (1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and a U.S. Congressman
  • Peter Arno (1904–1968), cartoonist
  • Victor Balasic Jr., (Victor Balasz) (1897-1943) Entertainer. Member of the Balasic Family Acrobats and Vaudeville Performers. He is buried in the National Vaudeville Association section of Kensico Cemetery. Plot: Lot 7822, Section 59,60, grave 291
  • Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), stage, screen, and television actress. Her most notable performance was 'Mrs. Robinson' in The Graduate, Wife of Mel Brooks
  • Wendy Barrie (1912–1978), actress
  • Ed Barrow (1868–1953), hall of fame baseball manager and executive
  • Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer
  • Aubrey Beattie (1865-1944) Stage and Screen Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Lee Beggs (1870-1943) Actor, motion picture director. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Malcolm Lee Beggs (1907-1956) Actor. Cause of death: Murdered. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Frank Behrens (1919-1986) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 427
  • Henri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, famed for the Bendel bonnet
  • Vivian Blaine (1921–1995), Actress/singer.
  • William Blaisdell (1865-1931) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painter
  • Jerri Blanchard (1900-1984), Actress. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 405
  • Paul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder of Bonwit Teller department store
  • Evangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder, fourth General of The Salvation Army
  • Herbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founder
  • Sully Boyar (Irvin) (1923-2001), Stage and film actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 327
  • Russ Brown (1892–1964), actor
  • Thomas Broadhurst (1858-1936), Playwright. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Billie Burke (1885–1970), actress.
  • Georgia M. Burke (1878-1985) Actress. Plot: Actors Fund Lot 456
  • Henry Burr (1882–1941), Canadian singer of popular songs
  • William J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actor
  • John Call (1908-1973), Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 427
  • Romaine Callender (1883-1976) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Hope Cameron (1920-1998) Stage, film, and television actress. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 1110
  • Ralph Chambers (1892-1968) Actor. Plot: Actors' Plot Lot 400
  • Andy Clark (1894-1965), Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Dudley Clements (1889-1947) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Andy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball player
  • Frank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actor
  • Bigelow Cooper, (1867-1953) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Harry Cooper (1904–2000), hall of fame golfer
  • Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals
  • Cheryl Crawford (1902–1986), theatrical producer
  • Milton Cross (1897–1975), radio announcer
  • Edward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. Congressman
  • George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894), American author, writer, historian and lawyer.
  • Royal Cutter, (1874-1955) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Charles Dalton (1869-1942) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Harry Davenport (1866–1949), American film and stage actor
  • Olive Deering (1918-1986), actress
  • Dolly Dawn (1916-2002), Singer. Plot: Actors Fund Lot 321
  • William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) Illustrator.
  • Robert De Niro, Sr., artist, father of actor Robert De Niro
  • William Wallace Denslow, (1856–1915), illustrator
  • Peter DeRose, (1900–1953), Hall of Fame composer
  • Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
  • Louis Palner di Cesnola, (1832-1904) Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.
  • Charles Dickson (1855-1927) Actor.
  • Harry Dornton, (1866-1931) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), swing-era trombonist
  • Malcolm J. Dunn, (1869-1946), Actor, Motion Picture Director. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • J. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), prolific silent film director
  • Sherman Edwards (1919–1981), Tony Award winning composer and songwriter
  • Angna Enters (1897–1989), entertainer
  • Charles Esdale (1873-1937) Actor.
  • Judith Evelyn (1913–1967), stage actress
  • Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), opera singer
  • Sid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player
  • Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellist
  • Ezio Flagello (1931-2009) Opera Singer. Plot: Section 10, Lot 87, Grave 2
  • Viola Fortesque (1875-1953) Actress. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Gloria Foster (1933-2001) Actress. Plot: Actor's Fund Plot
  • Alexander Frank (1866-1939) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot
  • Harry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of the Boston Red Sox.
  • Truman Gaige (1906-2002) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Albert Gaston (1851-1931) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Echlin Gayer (1877-1926) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), Hall of Fame baseball player
  • Dorothy Graham (1893-1959) Author.
  • Julian Greer (1871-1928) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Ulu Grosbard (1929-2012) Motion picture and stage director, producer
  • Leonard Grover Jr. (1858-1947) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Chalres W. Harbury (1843-1928) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Thomas Hardie (1864-1928) Actor. Plot: Actors' Fund
  • Marion Harris (1896–1944), American popular singer
  • Valerie Jill Haworth (1945-2011) British movie and stage actress
  • Grace Henderson (1860–1944), stage actress
  • Gustave Herter (1830-1898), furniture maker and interior decorator
  • Al Hodge (1912–1979), actor.
  • May Irwin (1862-1938), stage comedienne
  • Danny Kaye (1913–1987), comedic actor
  • Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), American stage and film actor
  • Joseph Kilgour (1863–1933), Canadian actor of the silent era
  • Ruth Laredo (1937–2005), pianist
  • William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), founder of Sarah Lawrence College
  • Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politician
  • Jeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852-1926), stage actress
  • Joseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New York
  • Cissie Loftus (1876–1943), Glasgow, Scottish-born and reared actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillian
  • Dorothy Loudon (1933–2003), Tony Award winning actress
  • Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune
  • Jack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer, and producer
  • Claudia McNeil (1917–1993), motion picture and television actress
  • Herman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. Congressman
  • Anna Moffo (1932–2006), soprano
  • William Muldoon (1852–1933), America's first wrestling champion
  • Allan Nevins (1890–1971), American historian and journalist
  • Anne Nichols (1891–1966), playwright and screenwriter
  • Carlotta Nillson (1876-1951), stage actress+
  • Frank O'Connor (1897–1979), American actor and husband of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand
  • Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), United States Representative from New York
  • Eulace Peacock (1914-1996), track star who beat Jesse Owens a majority of the time
  • Ann Pennington (1893–1971), popular Ziegfeld stage star
  • David Graham Phillips (1867–1911), journalist and novelist
  • Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviatrix
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), composer, pianist, and conductor
  • Ayn Rand (1905–1982), author, philosopher
  • Jacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owned the New York Yankees
  • David Sarnoff (1891–1971), broadcaster and head of RCA
  • Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), American actress and vocalist
  • Gordon Scott (1926–2007), actor
  • Gil Scott-Heron (1949 – 2011) American soul and jazz poet, musician
  • Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), American actress
  • Richard B. Shull (1929–1999), American character actor
  • Ivan F. Simpson (1875-1951), shottish character actor
  • Alison Skipworth (1863–1952), English stage and screen actress
  • Alfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central Railroad
  • Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. Congressman
  • Ellsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), American hotel pioneer
  • Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), actor
  • Max Stern (businessman) (1898–1982), entrepreneur, philanthropist
  • Ghity Amiel Lindenbaum Stern, philanthropist
  • Lewis Stone (1879–1953), film character actor
  • Amos Sulka, founder of international men's apparel store
  • Oscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. Congressman
  • Fay Templeton (1865–1939), Broadway star
  • Gertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), actress
  • Benjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. Congressman
  • Deems Taylor (1885–1966), composer and journalist
  • Wen-Ying Tsai (1928-2013), Pioneer American cybernetic sculptor
  • William L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. Congressman
  • Charles Weidman (1901–1975), pioneer of American modern dance
  • James E. West (1876–1948), first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (Section 187, Lot 14037, Computer Number 15669)
  • Spencer Wishart (1889-1914), American racecar driver
  • Willaim B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockey
  • John North Willys (1873–1935), automobile manufacturer
  • Charles E. Wilson (1886-1972), president of General Electric
  • Francis Wilson (1854–1935), American actor
  • Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), American theatre and film actress
  • Herbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. Congressman
  • Florenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932), producer of the Ziegfeld Follies

Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division

Image gallery

  • Mayer tumulus

  • Egyptian Sphinx Tomb

  • The Kane Lodge sphere

  • Pinkney Pyramid

  • Mecca Temple

  • The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery

  • The Ayer statue

  • Grave of Lou Gehrig

  • The Friars Club Monument

  • Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with minaret

  • Entrance to Sharon Gardens

  • Rules and regulations

  • An interesting above-ground tomb

  • Daniel monument

  • The monument of Judge John Fitch

  • Amos Sulka mausoleum

  • The cemetery on the Metro North line

  • An interesting cross

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Coordinates: 41°04′40″N 73°47′11″W / 41.0779°N 73.7865°W / 41.0779; -73.7865

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