150th Anniversary Of Elmwood Cemetery Celebration

The Celebration of Elmwood Cemeteryi's 150th Birthday is today.  Food, entertainment and tours.. Actors who are portraying prominent personages buried in the Cemetery above and below. 

                                                  The festivities go on today until 3pm. 

                                  I had some prints of Elmwood on display for the silent auction. All proceeds benefit Elmwood. 

Mayor Lucas was there and read a proclamation that made October 1st Elmwood Cemetery Day in Kansas City. 

Simon Abrahms and Mayor Lucas with the Proclamation for Elmwood Cemetery Day October 1, 2022 Simon is the President of the Elmwood Society. 

 

Nancy Drucilla Tyler Holmes - President Truman's Great Grandmother - Elmwood Cemetery

Nancy was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1780.  She married Jesse Holmes, born 1775, in 1801.  One of their four children was Mary Jane Holmes who married Anderson Shipp Truman. Their son, John Anderson Truman married Martha Ellen Young and their son was Harry S Truman. 

Robert T. Holmes along with his wife Mary were two of the twelve original founders of the First Baptist Church of Kansas City in 1855. 

The original stones are almost impossible to read now. 

Her father was  Captain Robert Tyler who fought in the Revolutionary War. It was thought for some time that the family was related to President Tyler, but current research says unlikely.  On Friday, June 14th, 1929 Harry and Bess Truman's daughter, Margaret, visited Elmwood and placed flowers upon Nancy's grave in a ceremony by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The above plaque is on the side of the large monument. 

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                                                                   Nancy Tyler Holmes. 
 

                                                                     Mary Jane Holmes Truman. 

                                                         Martha Ellen Young Truman

John Calvin Pollock - Elmwood Cemetery

John Calvin Pollock was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1857.  He was nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to a seat in the Federal Judicial Service, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas .  He was confirmed by the Senate on December 1, 1903.  He served in that position until his death in Jan 1937.    Prior to that appointment he was in private practice in Newton, Iowa, 1884-1885, Hartville , Missouri 1885-1886, Winfield, Kansas 1887-1901 and a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas from 1901-1903.   His first wife, Louise Lafferty Pollock died in  1912 which led to the building of the mausoleum above.   His second wife was Beulah Haas McColm Pollock who died in 1955.  Pollock and his first wife had one child Lucille Pollock Jennings. Elmwood Cemetery is celebrating 150 years of existence this coming Saturday, October 1st.   Please come.  For more information use this link: https://www.facebook.com/elmwoodcemkc