Elmwood Cemetery

Established in 1853, Elmwood Cemetery is Norfolk's second-oldest municipal cemetery. Its monuments and statues, some crafted by nationally prominent artisans, bear the motifs of Victorian funerary art and reflect Egyptian, Gothic, Greek, Neo-Classical, and Romanesque Revival styles. Those interred here include victims of the 1855 yellow fever epidemic, members of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, Confederate and Union soldiers and sailors, Gov. Littleton Waller Tazewell, sculptor William Couper, and Sarah Lee Odend’hal Fain, one of the first two women to serve in the Virginia General Assembly. Elmwood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Norfolk, Virginia · United States