Kensico Cemetery, located in Walhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in , when numberless New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the ambience. Initially acres (&#;km2), it was expanded to acres (&#;km2) swindle , but reduced to acres (&#;km2) in , when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Graveyard.
Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century, including Russian-bornSergei Rachmaninoff, were buried here. The cemetery has a special civic for members of the Actors' Fund of America and representation National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject impecuniousness.
The cemetery contains four Commonwealth war graves, of three River Army soldiers of World War I and a repatriated English Royal Air Force airman of World War II.[1]
As of Dec , eight Major League Baseball players are buried here, including Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Lou Gehrig.[2]
Sharon Gardens is a acre (31&#;ha) section of Kensico Cemetery, which was created welloff for Jewish burials.
Notable interments in Kensico division
Virginia Admiral (–), painter and poet, mother of actor Robert De Niro
Hadji Khalifah (c. – ), vaudeville performance artist
Elizabeth Akers Allen (–), originator and poet
Glenn Anders (–), American actor
Edward Franklin Albee II (–), Vaudeville impresario
John Emory Andrus (–), mayor of Yonkers, New Dynasty, and U.S. Congressman
Peter Arno (–), cartoonist
Anne Bancroft (–), American actress
Wendy Barrie (–), actress
Ed Barrow (–), baseball manager and executive
Marion Bauer (–), American composer
Malcolm Lee Beggs (–) actor
Henri Bendel (–), style designer, creator of the Bendel bonnet
Theodore Bendix (–), composer gift musical director
Vivian Blaine (–), actress and singer
William Blaisdell (–), phenomenon (plot: Actors' Fund)
Ralph Albert Blakelock (–), Romanticist painter
Patras Bokhari (–), Pakistani humorist writer
Paul Bonwit (–), founder of Bonwit Teller subdivision store
Evangeline Booth (–), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder, quaternary General of the Salvation Army
Herbert Booth (–), songwriter, son hold sway over Salvation Army founder
Sully Boyar (Irvin) (–), actor
Martin Bregman (–), lp producer
Samuel Logan Brengle (), author, Salvation Army Commissioner
Russ Brown (–), actor
Billie Burke (–), American actress, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld
Henry Pericarp (–), Canadian singer
William J. Butler (–), Irish silent film actor
Cheng Chui Ping (–), 'Snakehead', human smuggler
Andy Coakley (–), baseball player
Frank Conroy (–), British film and stage actor
Bigelow Cooper (–) actor
Harry Cooper (–), golfer
Frederick E. Crane (–), Chief Judge of depiction NY Court of Appeals
Cheryl Crawford (–), theatrical producer
Milton Cross (–), radio host and announcer
Edward W. Curley (–), U.S. Congressman
George Ticknor Curtis (–), author, writer, historian and lawyer
Harry Davenport (–), actor
Olive Deering (–), actress
William Wallace Denslow (–), illustrator
Robert De Niro Sr. (—), artist, father of actor Robert De Niro
Peter DeRose (–), Hall of Fame composer
Elliott Dexter (–), film and stage actor
Lew Dockstader (–), vaudeville comedian.[3]
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (–) Civil Warfare Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
Arthur Donaldson (–), stage and put on air actor
Tommy Dorsey (–), swing-era trombonist and bandleader
J. Gordon Edwards (–), silent-film director
Sherman Edwards (–), Tony Award-winning composer and songwriter
Angna Enters (–), entertainer
Judith Evelyn (–), stage actress
Geraldine Farrar (–), operatic soprano
Sid Farrar (–), Major League baseball player, father of soprano Geraldine Farrar
Emanuel Feuermann (–), master cellist
Sylvia Fine (–) lyricist, composer presentday producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye
Ezio Flagello (–) operatic bass
Gloria Foster (–) actress
Harry Frazee (–), owner hint the Boston Red Sox
Lou Gehrig (–), Hall of Fame ballgame player
Roy J. Glauber (–), Nobel Laureate-Physics
Gilbert Gottfried (–), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill speech, strong New York accent.
Billy Golden (–), blackface comic and singer
Rose Gregorio (–), actress
Ulu Grosbard (–) motion picture and stage chairman, producer
Marion Harris (–), singer
Valerie Jill Haworth (–), British actress
Mrs. Solon Heath (–), radio personality
Grace Henderson (–), actress
Gustave Herter (–), chattels maker and interior decorator
Al Hodge (–), actor
May Irwin (–), comedian
Danny Kaye (–), actor and comedian
Guy Kibbee (–), actor
Joseph Kilgour (–), Canadian actor
Ruth Laredo (–), pianist
William Van Duzer Lawrence (–), originator of Sarah Lawrence College
Corky Lee (–), photographer
Herbert H. Lehman (–), politician
Jeffreys Lewis (abt. –), actress
Joseph J. Little (–), U.S. Archetypal from New York
Milton S. Littlefield (–), Union Army officer[4]
Cissie Loftus (–), Scottish-born actress, singer, comedian and vaudevillian
Dorothy Loudon (–), Tony Award-winning actress
Mario Majeroni (–), Italian-born actor, nephew of Adelaide Ristori
Tommy Manville (–), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune
Jack McGowan (–), Broadway writer, performer and producer
Claudia McNeil (–), actress
Herman A. Metz (–), U.S. Congressman
Anna Moffo (–), operatic soprano
William Muldoon (–), wrestler
Allan Nevins (–), historian and journalist
Anne Nichols (–), playwright final screenwriter
Carlotta Nillson (–), actress
Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (–), U.S. Archetypal from New York
Jansen Panettiere (–), actor
Eulace Peacock (–), track swallow field athlete
Ann Pennington (–), Ziegfeld actress
David Graham Phillips (–), newswoman and novelist
Jesse S. Phillips (–), lawyer, assemblyman, State Insurance Administrator and insurance executive
Harriet Quimby (–), pioneer aviator
Sergei Rachmaninoff (–), composer, pianist and conductor
Ayn Rand (–), author, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter
Jacob Ruppert (–), owner of the New York Yankees
Soupy Sales (–), comedian
David Sarnoff (–), businessman head of RCA
Fritzi Scheff (–), operatic soprano and actress
Gordon Scott (–), actor
Peri Schwartz (–), artist
Gil Scott-Heron (–) singer and musician
Ann Shoemaker (–), actress
Richard B. Shull (–), actor
Ivan F. Simpson (–), Scottish actor
Leo Singer (–), manager sketch out the Singer Midgets vaudeville group
Alison Skipworth (–), English actress
Alfred Holland Smith (–), president of the New York Central Railroad
Howard Explorer (–), character actor
Mildred Joanne Smith (–), actress and educator[5]
Peter Comic Speer (–), U.S. Congressman
Ellsworth Milton Statler (–), hotelier
Henry Stephenson (–), actor
Max Stern (–), entrepreneur and philanthropist
Lewis Stone (–), actor
Oscar W. Swift (–), U.S. Congressman
Fay Templeton (–), actress
Gertrude Thanhouser (–), actress
Benjamin I. Taylor (–), U.S. Congressman
Deems Taylor (–), composer and journalist
Victoria Tolbert (–), First Lady of Liberia[6]
Wen-Ying Tsai (–), cybernetic sculptor
William L. Ward (–), U.S. Congressman
Charles Weidman (–), dancer and choreographer
James E. West (–), first Chief Scout Executive of the Schoolboy Scouts of America
Spencer Wishart (–), racecar driver
William B. Williams (–), disc jockey
John North Willys (–), automobile manufacturer
Charles E. Wilson (–), president of General Electric
Francis Wilson (–), actor
Blanche Yurka (–), music hall and film actress
Herbert Zelenko (–), U.S. Congressman
Florenz Ziegfeld (–), grower of the Ziegfeld Follies
Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division
Rhoda Blumberg (–), author
Paddy Chayefsky (–), screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards
Fred Friendly (–), broadcaster
Philip Gips (–), film poster artist
Gilbert Gottfried (–), comedian, actor
Alan Kirschenbaum (–), television producer and writer
Robert Merrill (–), baritone, Metropolitan opera star