Find A Grave - Baltimore City

Abell, Arunah Shepherdson b. August 10, 1808 d. April 19, 1888
Journalist, Newspaper Publisher. He was the founder of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" and Baltimore "Sun" newspapers.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Cedar Area, Lots 19-21
Albert, William Julian b. August 4, 1816 d. March 29, 1879
US Congressman. He was elected to represent Maryland's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1873 to 1875.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Andrews, Richard Snowden b. October 29, 1830 d. January 5, 1903
Andrews was an American architect and a Confederate artillery commander and diplomat during the American Civil War. Served as a Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Fought in a number of battles including the Seven Days Battle, where he was wounded. He is known best for his part in the Battle of Cedar Mountain (near Culpeper), Virginia on August 9th 1862. There, near the front, a Federal shell struck his right side, ripping a gaping hole in his abdomen...[Read More]
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 26
Antonio, Sister. Mary
Roman Catholic Leader. One of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore, Maryland, which was the first Order of Religious Woman of African Ancestry.
New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Armistead, George b. April 10, 1780 d. April 25, 1818
United States Army Officer. Served as Major and commander of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. He was in command of the Fort during the War of 1812 when the British unsuccessfully attempted to force its capitulation by an naval artillery bombardment. The attack was witnessed by Francis Scott Key, who immortalized it in the words of "The Star Spangled Banner". Major Armistead was the uncle of Civil War Confederate General Lewis Armistead, who is buried next to him. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Buried next to his nephew Confederate General Lewis Armistead who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg
Armistead, Lewis Addison b. February 18, 1817 d. July 5, 1863
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He began his career graduating form the US Military Academy in 1839 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Infantry. With the start of the Civil War, he resigned his commission, joined the Confederate Army and given the rank of Major. In late 1861, he was promoted Colonel and commanded the 57th Virginia Regiment in defense of the Blackwater Virginia, that winter. On April 1, 1862, he was promoted Brigadier General and distinguished himself for...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Armstrong, Annie b. July 11, 1850 d. December 20, 1938
Religious Figure. As founder of the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), she was a leader in Southern Baptist evangelization efforts for many years. Raised in a prominent Baltimore family, she was baptized in the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore at 19 and soon became a founding member of Eutaw Place Baptist Church, where she was to be active for a number of years. In 1880, Miss Annie heard a lecture on the plight of Indians living in Oklahoma; she and other ladies organized relief efforts, which...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section P, Grave 63
Arnold, Samuel b. September 6, 1834 d. September 21, 1906
Lincoln Assassination Conspirator. His role in the conspiracy was to help kidnap Abraham Lincoln, but he dropped out of the murder conspiracy two weeks before Lincoln was assassinated. Born in Washington, DC, the Arnold family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Samuel Arnold was raised, and he attended St. Timothy's Hall, a military academy, where he met John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited him in 1864 to join a plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln, to use Lincoln as exchange for several...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: pulmonary tuberculosis
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Area P, Lot 40
Asbury, Francis b. August 26, 1745 d. March 31, 1816
Religious Leader. Served as the first general superintendent or bishop of American Methodism. He was born near Birmingham in England and came under Methodist influence at an early age. Asbury was accepted as a local preacher at the age of eighteen and joined the itinerancy four years later. At the 1771 Conference, he was one of five volunteers to go to America. At first subordinate to senior colleagues like Joseph Pilmore and Richard Boardman, within twelve months of his arrival Francis Asbury...[Read More]
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Atzerodt, George Andrew b. June 12, 1835 d. July 7, 1865
Lincoln Assassination Conspirator. At the age of eight, his parents immigrated to America and settled in Maryland, but he never became a naturalized US Citizen. He and his older brother, John, set up a carriage repair shop at Port Tobacco, Maryland, located at the mouth of Pope's Creek near its entry into the Potomac River. The two brothers separated, and John moved to Baltimore and George remained to operate the business. This was a favorite point from which Confederate spies and contraband...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Cause of death: Executed by hanging
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Banks, Robert Tunstall b. April 2, 1822 d. August 8, 1901
Baltimore Mayor. he served as the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1867 to 1871.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Barney, John b. January 18, 1785 d. January 26, 1857
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1829. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1820 to 1821.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Barringer, Daniel Moreau b. July 30, 1806 d. September 1, 1873
US Congressman, US Diplomat. Elected to represent North Carolina's 2nd and 3rd Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1849. Also served as a Member of the North Carolina State Legislature from 1829 to 1834, 1840 to 1842, and 1854, Delegate to the North Carolina State Constitutional Convention in 1835, and United States Minister to Spain from 1849 to 1853. (Bio by: K)
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Section I, lot 106
Barron, Blue b. November 19, 1913 d. July 16, 2005
Big Band Leader. He was born Harry Freidman in Cleveland, Ohio. He began the Blue Barron orchestra in New York City playing at the Edison Hotel in 1940. His band recorded songs like "At A Perfume Counter" in 1938, "Cruisin Down the River" in 1949, and "Sometimes I'm Happy" in 1940. The band played in movie shorts like "Melody Master: Blue Barron and His Orchestra" in 1949, "Paramount Headliner: Blue Barron and His Orchestra" in 1940, and "Blue Barron and His Orchestra" in 1952. (Bio by: Genet)
Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Beck, Thomas b. December 29, 1909 d. September 23, 1995
Actor. His first professional work began as a stage performer in a stock company and later as a Broadway head liner. In the 1930s, his work interested film executives and he went to Hollywood where he appeared in 28 films in his career. His most memorable roles were in the films "Charlie Chan in Paris" (1935), "Charlie Chan in Egypt" (1935), "Charlie Chan at the Opera" (1937) and along side with Shirley Temple in "Heidi" (1937). After a contract dispute over wages with the industry in 1939, he...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Northern-most portion of Section P
Beser, Jacob b. March 15, 1921 d. June 16, 1992
Veteran of World War II. He was the Radar Countermeasure Officer aboard the Enola Gay the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Division 1, Section 5, Lot 1099.
Biddle, Edward b. 1738 d. September 5, 1779
Continental Congressman. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he served as a Member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1767, and as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania in 1774. (Bio by: K)
Old Saint Pauls Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Blakeney, Albert Alexander b. September 28, 1850 d. October 15, 1924
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maryland's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1901 to 1903, and 1921 to 1923. He was defeated as Republican in 1922.
Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Bodine, A. Aubrey b. July 21, 1906 d. October 28, 1970
An accomplished and renowned photographer of Baltimore and Maryland scenes, Bodine's photos were a regular feature in the Baltimore Sun paper for many years. The tombstone includes his signature and a carving of a camera lens.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Bonaparte, Charles Joseph b. June 9, 1851 d. June 28, 1921
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. The youngest grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother, and Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, he met Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard Law School. After he became President, Roosevelt appointed him United States Attorney General. In that capacity, C.J. Bonaparte founded the FBI and broke up the American Tobacco Trust. He was known as "Charlie the Crook Chaser." (Bio by: Gary Thelen)
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Plot: Bonaparte Family Plot

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