Flushing Cemetery is a
cemetery in
Flushing in the
borough of
Queens in
New York City,
New York.
The cemetery is the final resting place for:
- Louis Armstrong, renowned musician and singer
- Bernard Baruch, financier, after whom Baruch College is named
- Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot
- Ellis Parker Butler, author noted for the story Pigs is Pigs
- Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- Dizzy Gillespie, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters
- Hermann Grab, Bohemian writer
- Thomas Birdsall Jackson, United States Congressman
- Lemuel E. Quigg, United States Representative from New York
- May Robson, actress
- Vincent Sardi, Sr., founder of the famous Sardi's restaurant.
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