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Knollwood Cemetery

Knollwood Cemetery is a cemetery located at 1678 SOM Center Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Established in 1908, it is one of the largest cemeteries in Cuyahoga County. A mausoleum was completed in 1926, and an expansion finished in 1959. The cemetery's mausoleum, the largest in the state, boasts a number of windows by Tiffany & Co.

Knollwood Cemetery and Mausoleum

September 9, 1908

Mayfield Heights, Ohio

United States

41°30′45″N 81°26′34″W / 41.512507°N 81.442796°W / 41.512507; -81.442796

Private

96 acres (390,000 m2)

More than 50,000 (2020)

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Knollwood Cemetery and Mausoleum

Knollwood Cemetery and Mausoleum

(1885-1959), poet.[36]

Frederick Henry Herbert Adler

Albert R. Bahr (1868-1939), founder, A.H. Bahr Lumber Co.[38]

[37]

(1874-1931), president of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team from 1922 to 1927.[39]

Ernest Barnard

(1900-1965), chairman of the board, National City Bank of Cleveland.[40]

Francis H. Beam

(1896-1961), Republican who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1947 and again from 1951 to 1954, and in the United States Senate from 1954 to 1957.[41]

George H. Bender

(1891-1952), professor of chemistry at Western Reserve University.[42]

Howard Simmons Booth

(1875-1958), president, National Acme Co.[43]

Fred H. Chapin

(1921-1964), first baseman for the Cleveland Indians from 1941 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1952.[39]

Herb Conyers

(1881-1948), co-founder, Ernst & Ernst.[44]

Alwin C. Ernst

(1884-1956), Major League Baseball umpire; general manager, Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers; president, Southern Association league; and National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.[45]

Billy Evans

(1892-1953), scholar of English literature, Western Reserve University.[46]

Finley Melville Kendall Foster

(1947-2017), lead singer of the rock music groups The Outsiders and Climax.[47]

Sonny Geraci

(1879-1934), architect.[48]

Reynold Hinsdale

(1876-1955), early automobile manufacturing executive.[49]

Benjamin Franklin Hopkins

(1888-1964), infielder for the Chicago White Sox and from St. Louis Browns.[39]

Pete Johns

(1895-1965), vice president of American Wire & Steel Co.[50]

Harvey Bryant Jordan

(1883-1962), organist.[51]

Edwin Arthur Kraft

(1898-1966), co-founder, Miller Drug Stores; president, Strong Cobb Arner pharmaceutical manufacturer; president, Distillata Co.[52]

George Miller

(1946-2006), drummer for the bands Bee Gees, Chicago, and The Manhattan Transfer.[35]

Mike Murphy

(1897-1967), folklorist and professor of sociology, Western Reserve University.[53]

Newbell Niles Puckett

(1891-1952), engineer and president, Keystone Plastics Company and Plastray Ltd.[54]

Thomas E. Orr

Mary Alice "Mell" Beistle Rothko (1922-1970), estranged wife of artist .[55]

Mark Rothko

(1904-1966), owner of the Cleveland Indians from 1949 to 1952.[39]

Ellis Ryan

(1941-1984) Gates Mills resident from a prominent Gates Mills family, nurse, and patron of the arts.

Suzanne Schnitzer

(1925-2014), jazz vocalist.[56]

Jimmy Scott

(1923-1954), murder victim and wife of Sam Sheppard. The fetus of her four-month-old unborn son was buried with her in 1955.[57]

Marilyn Reese Sheppard

(1923-1970), physician, husband of Marilyn Sheppard, and accused murderer. Originally buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Columbus, Ohio, his remains were disinterred and cremated before being placed in his wife's crypt in 1997.[58]

Sam Sheppard

(1938-1997), caporegime in the Cleveland crime family.[59]

Thomas Sinito

(1874-1944), President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1940.[60] (His remains were moved to All Souls Cemetery in Chardon, Ohio in 1975.)[61]

Antanas Smetona

(1850-1932), Standard Oil executive.[62]

Feargus B. Squire

Floyd St. Clair (1871-1942), composer with the Sam Fox Publishing Co.

[63]

(1911-1990), investment banker and partner in Cascade Industries.[40]

Jack R. Staples

(1905-1956), restaurateur, heir to Stouffer's fortune.[64]

Gordon A. Stouffer

(1881-1960), infielder for the Cleveland Indians.[65]

Terry Turner

(1889-1963), poet and philanthropist.[66]

Edith Anisfield Wolf

(1869-1963), Methodist minister and founder, World Religious News (a news service).[67]

D. Carl Yoder

(1865-1926), brigadier general in the U.S. Army and sports team owner.[68]

Charles X. Zimmerman

A number of famous individuals are buried at Knollwood Cemetery. They include:

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