Grandview Cemetery is a cemetery located at 801 Millcreek Road in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, Johnstown is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, whi ...
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The cemetery association that operates Grandview was founded in 1885 to accommodate Johnstown's rapidly growing population. The first interment was that of Lucretia Hammond of Kernville (now a part of Johnstown), who was buried on April 30, 1887.
Grandview Cemetery on Johnstown, Pennsylvania website accessed September 7, 2009
The land for the cemetery, west of the city on Yoder Hill, was purchased from the
Cambria Iron Company.
In the late 1880s, a steep and winding mile-long road named Millcreek Road was constructed to the original entrance of the cemetery, but in 1904 it was found necessary to create a new entrance to the cemetery at Bucknell Avenue.
The cemetery is best known because of the aftermath of the
Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylv ...
of 1889. Many of the flood's 2,209 victims are buried there. A section of the cemetery called the "Unknown Plot" contains the bodies of 777 flood victims who could not be identified. A monument to the flood
victims was purchased by the state of Pennsylvania and dedicated on May 31, 1892 before a crowd estimated at 10,000 that included the governor of Pennsylvania.
As of March 31, 1992, the total number of interments at Grandview was 57,006. The cemetery contains 47 burial sections and more than , and is one of the largest in Pennsylvania.
Notable burials
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Warren Worth Bailey
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Jacob Miller Campbell
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Elmer Cleveland
Elmer Ellsworth Cleveland (September 15, 1862 – October 8, 1913) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball. He began his professional career in the Western Interstate League in 1883 and then joined the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the ...
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John Graham McCrorey
John Graham McCrory (October 11, 1860 – November 20, 1943), ''né'' McCrorey, was an American businessman who made his fortune as a retailer. He was the founder of a chain of five and dime stores that bore his name, known as McCrory Stores. The ...
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Daniel Johnson Morrell
Daniel Johnson Morrell (August 8, 1821 – August 20, 1885) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life
Morrell was born in North Berwick, York County, Maine. He attended public schools and moved ...
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John Murtha
John Patrick Murtha Jr. (; June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Represent ...
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George W. Reed
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John Marshall Rose
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John Phillips Saylor
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Howard William Stull
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Boyd Wagner
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Anderson Howell Walters
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George M. Wertz
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John Irving Whalley
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Elijah Payne Winchester
Notes
External links
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Grandview Cemetery at Find A Grave
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Cemeteries in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Protected areas of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Johnstown, Pennsylvania