Lorraine Park Cemetery - Woodlawn MD
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe
N 39° 18.792 W 076° 43.098
18S E 351863 N 4352941
Lorraine Park Cemetery is located at 5608 Dogwood Road, Woodlawn, Maryland 21207
Waymark Code: WM1APQG
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2024
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member pmaupin
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From Wikipedia:

"Lorraine Park Cemetery is a cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland. It rests on about 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land. Formerly known as Lorraine Farm, the exact date of its founding is not entirely known - however, it may have been founded as early as 1872. Founded by Reverend William Prescott Webb, most of its acreage was sold to the Lorraine Cemetery Company in 1884.

The first interment was a lady named Margaret Rand, in 1883 and by 1900, it had over 700 interments. The cemetery served as the preferred resting place for the area's Chinese community for many years.

At one point the cemetery went bankrupt and was purchased by Charles Blackburn Sims. Upon his purchasing the cemetery, it began to take on its present appearance.

Construction on the cemetery's mausoleum began in the late 1920s and ended in 1973.

The cemetery contains three British war graves of World War II - a Royal Navy Seaman, a Merchant Navy Master, and a Royal Artillery Gunner.

On September 12, 1976, the body of an unidentified young woman was found face first wrapped in a sheet and a seed bag and 2 bandanas with eye and mouth holes cut in them over her face. She had been raped, strangled and bound then thrown into the cemetery, or killed in a different location and then dumped there. The case was featured on America's Most Wanted, and although the murder remains unsolved, DNA evidence proved in September 2021 that she was Margaret Fetterolf, a 16-year old girl who had run away from home in the summer of 1975.

Notable interments:
Rex Barney, baseball player
Reginald Bowie (1854–1926), Maryland politician, businessman and engineer
Paul Cavanagh, actor
Berrie Henry Jarrett, Medal of Honor recipient
Rudy Kneisch, baseball player
Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow Leary, Congressman
Charlie Maisel, baseball player
Fritz Maisel, baseball player
Mildred Natwick, actress
Jerry Scala, baseball player"

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