• Source: Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)

The Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri has been in use as a cemetery since 1820. The cemetery historically contains, White, African-American, and Jewish (Beth Olem Cemetery, Beth Shalom Cemetery) sections. Located in the cemetery are a vernacular stone receiving vault (1887), and a Romanesque Revival style mausoleum (1911).
Located on Broadway just west of Downtown Columbia, the cemetery contains many burials of prominent people associated with Missouri history, the University of Missouri, or the city of Columbia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is still an operating cemetery with room for many more burials and celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2020.




Notable interments


Philemon Bliss – politician, Missouri Chief justice, educator
John William "Blind" Boone – musician, pianist
Fred Morris Dearing – diplomat
William Wilson Elwang – preacher and author
Jane Froman – actress and singer
North Todd Gentry – Missouri Attorney General, historian
Odon Guitar – soldier
Albert Ross Hill – politician, university president
William Wilson Hudson – Third president of the University of Missouri
Richard Henry Jesse – Eighth president of the University of Missouri
John Carleton Jones – Tenth president of the University of Missouri
John Hiram Lathrop – First president of the University of Missouri
Frederick Middlebush – Thirteenth president of the University of Missouri
William Lester Nelson – politician
James S. Rollins – politician and lawyer
Max Schwabe – politician
James Shannon – academic
Willard Duncan Vandiver – politician
Edwin Moss Watson – newspaper editor
Abraham J. Williams – Third Governor of the State of Missouri
Walter Williams – founder of the Missouri School of Journalism and twelfth president of the University of Missouri
Edwin William Stephens – publisher, civic leader
William Franklin Switzler – historian, journalist




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See also


List of cemeteries in Boone County, Missouri




References






External links



Official website
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Columbia Cemetery
Columbia Cemetery at Find a Grave

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