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Twelve years after the founding of the original town of Coffeyville, Kansas, Elmwood, its first permanent cemetery, was platted.
Elmwood Cemetery was originally bounded by Sixteenth Street, Missouri Pacific Railroad right-of-way, Eldridge Street and Bump Street. It was the sole municipal burying ground in Coffeyville for 30 years. Prior to Elmwood Cemetery, there were numerous burial grounds started in the early days of Coffeyville, but many of them were later abandoned, some plowed up, and bodies in others moved to larger cemeteries. There had been selected as early as 1868, within a radius of eight miles of Coffeyville, ten or more burial “places”. There were evidences of an early burying ground north of First Street and west of Walnut Street, probably used by the Indians as on the same tract many gun parts, tomahawks and arrowheads were found after Coffeyville had been incorporated. |
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The first lot in Elmwood Cemetery was sold by the city on March, 1881, to A. Benning. It is believed a 12-year-old girl from the Cubine family was the first to be buried in the cemetery.