Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)
# Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)

Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, United States.

In June 1884, officers and trustees were elected and the original 28 acres (110,000 $m^2)$ of land were purchased from Lucius Wilcox. Over the years, people left adjacent land to the cemetery which now totals 64.4 acres (261,000 $m^2)$ in the city and 7 acres (28,000 $m^2)$ in the town of Canandaigua and serves as a burial site for more than 13,000 people.

The Woodlawn Cemetery chapel was dedicated in 1910. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

## Notable burials

* Myron Holley Clark (1806–1892) – Governor of New York
* Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
* Francis Granger (1792–1868) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Postmaster General; candidate for U.S. Vice President (1836)
* Gideon Granger (1767–1822) – New York State Senator and U.S. Postmaster General
* Barney Kessel (1923–2004) – legendary Jazz Guitarist
* Stanton Davis Kirkham (1868–1944) – author"sandys jazz revival" 1975
* Elbridge Gerry Lapham (1814–1890) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate
* John Raines (1840–1909) – New York State Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Frederick Ferris Thompson (1836–1899) – notable banker, co-founder of predecessor banks to Citibank and JP Morgan Chase
* Mary Clark Thompson (1835–1923) – philanthropist
* Edward Francis Winslow (1837–1914), a Civil War general, who died at Sonnenberg while visiting Mary Clark Thompson and her banker husband, Frederick Ferris Thompson
