Woodlawn Cemetery — Local services in City of Elmira

After many years of searching for my G - G granddad who died in War Between the States, I finally received positive results after help from both North Carolina and the State of New York. Our visit was exceptional, very rewarding and the guy on duty could not have been nicer or more helpful. Grampa was buried under his brother's name. Both had been prisoners there. We explained to the custodian, provided proof of what I said and went back in 3 years to find a new headstone stating William Friddle, 1st NC Regiment! Everyday makes it more wonderful for me to know that I made a difference for Grampa, his daughter and granddaughter, family and, esp. our son who cried with me as we placed flowers on HIS grave for the first time ever!!! Thank you, Woodlawn! And deep gratitude to my hubby! (We had lived 40 minutes away from Grampa...

The Woodlawn Cemetery complex is actually two cemeteries.

The larger of these is Woodlawn Cemetery, which is the final resting place of author, humorist, philosopher Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, Hal Roach Jr., American film pioneer and producer of the Our Gang series as well as many other films, and of Ernie Davis, first African-American winner of the Heisman Trophy.

The second cemetery is Woodlawn National Cemetery, begun during the American Civil War as a burial ground for the nearly 3,000 Confederate prisoners who died at the Elmira Prison Camp. Many were buried by John J. Jones, and escaped slave and sexton of a...

The people that run this cemetery must hate the people of Elmira, the very city it is built in! They treat people that come to this place like we shouldn't be there. They get the most people to visit the cemetery in who knows how many years, and what do they do? They take out the reason the people were going there. Pokemon Go has been the biggest draw in for the cemetery, but because they did not want people in the cemetery walking around or just taking in the scenery while playing a game on their phone they remove EVERYTHING to do with the game. Shame on you Woodlawn! Elmira feels the same...