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,
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was founded in 1889, when many
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cemeteries were becoming full, and
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were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially , it was expanded to in 1905, but reduced to in 1912, when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including Russian-born
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, were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the
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and the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty. The cemetery contains four Commonwealth war graves, of three
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soldiers of
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and a repatriated American
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airman of
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. As of December 2021, eight
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players are buried here, including
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inductee
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. Sharon Gardens is a section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created in 1953 for
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s.


Notable interments in Kensico division

* Virginia Admiral (1915–2000), painter and poet, mother of actor
Robert De Niro Robert Anthony De Niro ( , ; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of List of awards and ...
* Hadji Ali (c. 1887-92 – 1937), vaudeville performance artist * Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), author and poet * Glenn Anders (1889–1981), American actor * Edward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresario *
John Emory Andrus John Emory Andrus (February 16, 1841 – December 26, 1934) was mayor of Yonkers, New York, a U.S. Congressman from New York, and founder of the Surdna Foundation, SURDNA Foundation. Biography Born in Pleasantville, New York, Andrus was the son o ...
(1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and U.S. Congressman *
Peter Arno Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr. (January 8, 1904 – February 22, 1968), known professionally as Peter Arno, was an American cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 101 covers to ''The New Yorker'' from 1925, the magazine's first year, until 1968, the ...
(1904–1968), cartoonist *
Anne Bancroft Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, tw ...
(1931–2005), American actress *
Wendy Barrie Wendy Barrie (born Marguerite Wendy Jenkins; 18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British-American film and television actress. Early life Although sometimes stated to have been born in London, other sources, including Barrie herself, ...
(1912–1978), actress * Ed Barrow (1868–1953), baseball manager and executive * Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer * Malcolm Lee Beggs (1907–1956) actor * Henri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, creator of the ''Bendel bonnet'' * Theodore Bendix (1862–1935), composer and musical director * Vivian Blaine (1921–1995), actress and singer * William Blaisdell (1865–1931), actor (plot: Actors' Fund) * Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painter * Patras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist writer * Paul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder of Bonwit Teller department store * Evangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter of
Salvation Army The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestantism, Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide m ...
founder, fourth General of the Salvation Army * Herbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founder * Sully Boyar (Irvin) (1923–2001), actor * Martin Bregman (1926–2018), film producer * Samuel Logan Brengle (1860-1936), author, Salvation Army
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* Russ Brown (1892–1964), actor * Billie Burke (1884–1970), American actress, wife of
Florenz Ziegfeld Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (; March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (1907–1931), inspired by the '' Folies Bergère'' of Paris. He al ...
*
Henry Burr Henry Burr (January 15, 1882 – April 6, 1941) was a Canadian singer, radio performer and producer. He was born Harry Haley McClaskey and used Henry Burr as one of his many pseudonyms, in addition to Irving Gillette, Henry Gillette, Alfred Ale ...
(1882–1941), Canadian singer * William J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actor * Cheng Chui Ping (1949–2014), 'Snakehead', human smuggler * Andy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball player * Frank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actor * Bigelow Cooper (1867–1953) actor * Harry Cooper (1904–2000), golfer * Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals *
Cheryl Crawford Cheryl Crawford (September 24, 1902 – October 7, 1986) was an American theatre producer and director. Biography Born in Akron, Ohio, Crawford majored in drama at Smith College. Following graduation in 1925, she moved to New York City a ...
(1902–1986), theatrical producer * Milton Cross (1897–1975), radio host and announcer * Edward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. Congressman * George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), author, writer, historian and lawyer * Harry Davenport (1866–1949), actor * Olive Deering (1918–1986), actress *
William Wallace Denslow William Wallace Denslow (; May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. Dens ...
(1856–1915), illustrator * Robert De Niro Sr. (1922—1993), artist, father of actor
Robert De Niro Robert Anthony De Niro ( , ; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of List of awards and ...
*
Peter DeRose Peter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10, 1896 – April 23, 1953) was an American composer of jazz and pop music during the era of Tin Pan Alley. In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Biography A native of New York City, a s ...
(1900–1953), Hall of Fame composer * Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), film and stage actor * Lew Dockstader (1856–1924), vaudeville comedian. * Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904) Civil War Congressional
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recipient * Arthur Donaldson (1869–1955), stage and screen actor *
Tommy Dorsey Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombone, trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-to ...
(1905–1956), swing-era trombonist and bandleader * J. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), silent-film director * Sherman Edwards (1919–1981),
Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...
-winning composer and songwriter * Angna Enters (1897–1989), entertainer * Judith Evelyn (1909–1967), stage actress * Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), operatic soprano * Sid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player, father of soprano Geraldine Farrar * Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellist * Sylvia Fine (1913–1991) lyricist, composer and producer, and the wife of the comedian
Danny Kaye Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. Kaye starred ...
* Ezio Flagello (1931–2009) operatic bass * Gloria Foster (1933–2001) actress * Harry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of the
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*
Lou Gehrig Henry Louis Gehrig ( ; June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), also known as Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig, was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was ...
(1903–1941),
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baseball player * Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018), Nobel Laureate-Physics *
Gilbert Gottfried Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor, best-known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often-controversial, sense of humor. Hi ...
(1955–2022), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong
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. * Billy Golden (1858–1926), blackface comic and singer *
Rose Gregorio Rose Gregorio (October 17, 1925 – August 17, 2023) was an American actress. She began her career appearing mostly in theatre in Chicago and New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1970s she became more active in television and film ...
(1925–2023), actress * Ulu Grosbard (1929–2012) motion picture and stage director, producer *
Marion Harris Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; March 25, 1897 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s. She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.Ward, Elij ...
(1896–1944), singer * Valerie Jill Haworth (1945–2011), British actress * Mrs. Julian Heath (1863–1932), radio personality * Grace Henderson (1860–1944), actress * Gustave Herter (1830–1898), furniture maker and interior decorator * Al Hodge (1912–1979), actor * May Irwin (1862–1938), comedian *
Danny Kaye Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. Kaye starred ...
(1911–1987), actor and comedian * Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), actor * Joseph Kilgour (1863–1933), Canadian actor * Ruth Laredo (1937–2005), pianist *
William Van Duzer Lawrence William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927) was an American millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College in 1926 and Lawrence Hospital in 1909. He played a critical role in the devel ...
(1842–1927), founder of
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* Corky Lee (1947–2021), photographer * Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politician * Jeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852–1926), actress * Joseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New York * Milton S. Littlefield (1830–1899), Union Army officer * Cissie Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish-born actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillian * Dorothy Loudon (1925–2003),
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-winning actress * Mario Majeroni (1870–1931), Italian-born actor, nephew of Adelaide Ristori * Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune * Jack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer and producer * Claudia McNeil (1917–1993), actress * Herman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. Congressman * Anna Moffo (1932–2006), operatic soprano * William Muldoon (1852–1933), wrestler * Lon Myers (1858–1899), sprinter and middle distance runner * Allan Nevins (1890–1971), historian and journalist *
Anne Nichols Anne Nichols (November 26, 1891 – September 15, 1966) was an American playwright best known as the author of ''Abie's Irish Rose''. Biography Anne Nichols was born in obscure Dales Mill, in Wayne County, Georgia, Wayne County, Georgia (U.S. s ...
(1891–1966), playwright and screenwriter * Carlotta Nillson (1876–1951), actress * Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), U.S. Representative from New York * Jansen Panettiere (1994–2023), actor * Eulace Peacock (1914–1996), track and field athlete * Ann Pennington (1893–1971), Ziegfeld actress *
David Graham Phillips David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Early life David Graham Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana, a small town located on the Ohio River, cons ...
(1867–1911), journalist and novelist * Jesse S. Phillips (1871–1954), lawyer, assemblyman, State Insurance Superintendent and insurance executive * Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviator *
Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and Conducting, conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a compos ...
(1873–1943), composer, pianist and conductor *
Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; , 1905March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which s ...
(1905–1982), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter * Jacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owner of the New York Yankees * Soupy Sales (1926–2009), comedian *
David Sarnoff David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian and American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio and television. He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in ...
(1891–1971), businessman head of
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* Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), operatic soprano and actress * Gordon Scott (1926–2007), actor * Peri Schwartz (1951–2021), artist *
Gil Scott-Heron Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American Jazz poetry, jazz poet, singer, musician, and author known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackso ...
(1949–2011) singer and musician *
Ann Shoemaker Ann Shoemaker (born Anne Dorothea Shoemaker; January 10, 1891 – September 18, 1978) was an American actress who appeared in 70 films and TV movies between 1928 and 1976. She portrayed Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in b ...
(1891–1978), actress * Richard B. Shull (1929–1999), actor * Ivan F. Simpson (1875–1951), Scottish actor * Leo Singer (1877–1950), manager of the Singer Midgets vaudeville group *
Alison Skipworth Alison Skipworth (born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom; 25 July 18635 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. Early years Skipworth was born in London. She was the daughter of Dr. Richard Ebenezer Groom and Elizabeth Rodgers, an ...
(1863–1952), English actress * Alfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central Railroad * Howard Smith (1893–1968), character actor * Mildred Joanne Smith (1921–2015), actress and educator * Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. Congressman *
Ellsworth Milton Statler Ellsworth Milton (E. M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 – April 16, 1928) was an Americans, American hotel businessman, founder of the Statler Hotels chain, born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Biography Statler built his first permanent hotel in ...
(1863–1928), hotelier *
Henry Stephenson Harry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956) was a British actor. He generally portrayed amiable and wise Gentleman, gentlemen in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles were Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Banks in ''Mutiny ...
(1871–1956), actor * Max Stern (1898–1982), entrepreneur and philanthropist *
Lewis Stone Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American film actor. He spent 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was best known for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular '' Andy ...
(1879–1953), actor * Oscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. Congressman *
Fay Templeton Fay Templeton (December 25, 1865 – October 3, 1939) was an American actress, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Her parents were John J. Templeton and Alice Van Asse, both of whom were actors/vaudevillians; Fay followed in their footsteps, m ...
(1865–1939), actress * Gertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), actress * Benjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. Congressman *
Deems Taylor Joseph Deems Taylor (December 22, 1885 – July 3, 1966) was an American composer, radio commentator, music critic, and author. Nat Benchley, co-editor of ''The Lost Algonquin Roundtable'', referred to him as "the dean of American music." He was e ...
(1885–1966), composer and journalist * Victoria Tolbert (1916–1997), First Lady of Liberia * Wen-Ying Tsai (1928–2013), cybernetic sculptor * William L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. Congressman * Charles Weidman (1901–1975), dancer and choreographer * James E. West (1876–1948), first
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of the
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*
Spencer Wishart Spencer E. Wishart (December 3, 1889 – August 22, 1914) was an American racing driver. He was active during the early years of Indy car racing. Biography Wishart was born on December 3, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wishart was kil ...
(1889–1914), racecar driver * William B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockey * John North Willys (1873–1935), automobile manufacturer * Charles E. Wilson (1886–1972), president of
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* Francis Wilson (1854–1935), actor * Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), theatre and film actress * Herbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. Congressman *
Florenz Ziegfeld Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (; March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (1907–1931), inspired by the '' Folies Bergère'' of Paris. He al ...
(1869–1932), producer of the ''
Ziegfeld Follies The ''Ziegfeld Follies'' were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as '' The Ziegfeld Foll ...
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Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division

* Rhoda Blumberg (1917–2016), author *
Paddy Chayefsky Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (; January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. He w ...
(1923–1981), screenwriter, winner of three
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* Fred Friendly (1915–1998), broadcaster * Philip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artist *
Gilbert Gottfried Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor, best-known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often-controversial, sense of humor. Hi ...
(1955–2022), comedian, actor * Alan Kirschenbaum (1961–2012), television producer and writer * Robert Merrill (1917–2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera star * Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010), biochemist * Freddie Roman (1937–2022), comedian * Robert Rosenthal (1917–2007), bomber pilot * Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), rabbi, civil rights leader * Beverly Sills (1929–2007), operatic soprano *
Lew Soloff Lewis Michael Soloff (February 20, 1944 – March 8, 2015) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and actor. He was a founding member of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Biography From his birth place of New York City, United States, he studie ...
(1944–2015), jazz trumpeter * Lee Wallace (1930–2020), actor *
Elie Wiesel Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates#1980, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel bibliogra ...
(1928–2016), writer,
Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...
survivor


Image gallery

Mayer Tumulus April_2012.jpg, Mayer
tumulus A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of Soil, earth and Rock (geology), stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found through ...
Landon Egyptian Sphinx Tomb 2011.JPG, Egyptian Sphinx Tomb Kane Lodge Sphere 2011.JPG, The Kane Lodge sphere Pinkney Pyramid 2011.JPG, Pinkney Pyramid Mecca Temple 2012.JPG, Mecca Temple Lounsbery Tomb 2011.JPG, The tomb of Phineas Lounsbery Ayer Statue 2011.JPG, The Ayer statue Lou Gehrig Grave 2011.JPG, Grave of
Lou Gehrig Henry Louis Gehrig ( ; June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), also known as Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig, was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was ...
Friars Club Monument 2010.JPG, The Friars Club Monument J. Gordon Edwards Tomb with Minarets 2011.JPG, Tomb of J. Gordon Edwards with
minaret A minaret is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets are generally used to project the Muslim call to prayer (''adhan'') from a muezzin, but they also served as landmarks and symbols of Islam's presence. They can h ...
Daniel Monument 2011.JPG, Daniel monument Druid Cross Memorial of Judge John Fitch 2011.JPG, The monument of Judge John Fitch Amos Sulka Mausoleum February 2012.jpg, Amos Sulka mausoleum Kensico Cemetery on Metro North Harlem Line April 2012.jpg, The cemetery on the Metro North line


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External links


Kensico Cemetery homepage
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