Elmwood Cemetery

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Elmwood Cemetery is a historic municipal cemetery located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1853, and is filled with monuments and mausoleums that embody the pathos and symbolism of the Christian view of death as a temporary sleep. A notable monument is the Recording Angel by William Couper (1853–1942) at the Couper Family plot. The Core Mausoleum (1910–1915) designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867–1935), with sculptures by Edward Field Sanford, Jr. (1886–1951), is another notable resource.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It is contiguous with West Point Cemetery, listed in 2007.Notable burials Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell, Sr. (1774–1860) was a US Senator and 26th Governor of Virginia. Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806–1881) was a historian and author, and owner and editor of Norfolk's American Beacon newspaper. Colonel Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916) was an American banker, lawyer, soldier, politician, author and railroad executive. Robert M. Hughes (1855–1940) was a Virginia lawmaker who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association and helped to establish what would become Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. William Sloane (1867–1940) and Florence Knapp Sloane (1873–1953) were the driving force behind the Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences, now known as the Chrysler Museum of Art. Sarah Lee Odend'hal Fain (1888–1962) was a schoolteacher and politician from Virginia. With Helen Timmons Henderson, in 1923 she was one of the first two women elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, and to the Virginia General Assembly as a whole. She is buried next to her husband, Walter Colquitt Fain (1888–1974). Charles G. Pickett (1840–1899) Assistant Adjutant General of "Pickett's Division" CSA. Brother Of Major General George E. Pickett, CSA.