Elmwood Cemetery (Columbia, South Carolina)

Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It was established in 1854, and expanded in 1921. The older section is heavily wooded and has a section devoted to Confederate dead.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Notable burials

• Christie Benet (1879–1951), American Democratic politician who briefly represented South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1918.
• Daniel Bragg Clayton (1817–1906), an American Southern Universalist minister who was instrumental in spreading and defending Universalism in the Southeast United States.
• Walter Clinton Goodpasture Jr. (1917–1942), a United States Marine Corps captain during World War II and his wife Mary Brennen (née Daly) Goodpasture (1921–1942) who were two of the 492 victims of the Cocoanut Grove fire.
• Walter Higbe (1915–1985), American professional baseball player who played in five of the Major League Baseball teams from 1937 until 1950, including the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• Athalia L. J. Irwin (1862–1915), an American Universalist minister who broke gender barriers within her denomination. She was the first female editor of The Universalist Herald.
• William Zachariah Leitner (1829–1888), state representative and senator and South Carolina Secretary of State.
• Alva M. Lumpkin (1886–1941), American Democratic politician who briefly represented South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1941.

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