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Lake View Cemetery is a private cemetery located in Seattle, Washington, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just north of Volunteer Park. Known as "Seattle's Pioneer Cemetery," it is run by an independent, non-profit association. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery and later renamed for its view of Lake Washington to the east.
On March 19, 2018 Heidi Christensen, former and last acting President of the Seattle Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Veterans for Peace Seattle Chapter, and the NW Museum of Legends and Lore, spoke to Seattle City Council to request removal of the monument in Lakeview Cemetery. [9]
Pages in category "Burials at Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Seattle Kung fu master and martial arts film star Bruce Lee lies beneath a tree and beside his son in Seattle's Lakeview Cemetery, where visitors from around the world come to place flowers and ...
Grose was a trustee of Seattle's first African-American church, the Jones Street African Methodist Episcopal Church (now First AME Church), which was founded in 1891, by Reverend L. S. Blakeney, Seaborn J. Collins, Alfred P. Freeman, and Grose's son George H. Grose. Grose died on July 27, 1898, [4] and is buried in Lake View Cemetery (Seattle).
A consortium of Seattle's five Grand Army of the Republic posts – Stevens Post #1, Miller Post #31, Cushing Post #56, Saxton Post #103, and Green Lake #112 – established the cemetery in 1895 on land donated by Huldah and David Kaufman, two of the city's earliest Jewish settlers, who arrived in 1869.
The Yesler mansion in 1900. It burned January 2, 1901 when it housed the Seattle Public Library. Yesler died on December 16, 1892, at the age of 82. He is buried in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery. After his death, Yesler's mansion became the first home of the Seattle Public Library, and burned down on January 2, 1901.
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