ELKS REST AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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ELKS REST
WOODLAWN CEMETARY
ELMIRA, NY
ESTABLISHED BY THE ELMIRA ELKS LODGE #62 IN 1924, THE ELKS REST AT WOODLAWN CEMETARY IN ELMIRA, NY HAS BEEN AND WILL FOREVER BE A PLACE OF ETERNAL REST FOR THOSE ENTURED THERE AND A PLACE OF REMEBERANCE AND RESPCT FOR EVERY ELK WHO HAS PASSED.
THE MEMORIAL STANDS ELEVEN FEET HIGH AND TWELVE FEET LONG. ELI HARVEY, AMERICA'S GREATEST SCULPTOR OF ANIMALS, TRUTHFULLY PORTRAYS IN THIS MEMORIAL A FULL GROWN MALE ELK OF LIFE SIZE. THE BRONZE ELK WEIGHS APPROXIMATELY 1950 LBS. IS ERECTED ON A BARRE GRANITE BASE, FORMED INTO THE SHAPE OF A LEDGE WHICH IS TWELVE FEET LONG. THE GRANITE BASE IS ESTIMATED TO WEIGH APPROXIMATELY TWO TONS. ERECTED ON THE PLOT AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY BY ELMIRA LODGE NO. 62 AND DEDICATED MAY 16TH, 1936, BY GRAND EXALTED RULER, HON. JAMES T. HANLLINAN OF QUEENSBOROUGH LODGE.
WOODLAWN CEMETARY IS A PUBLIC CEMETREAY CHARTERED BY THE CITY IN 1858. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WOODLAWN CEMETERY GO TO http://www.friendsofwoodlawnelmira.org/
"STILL OUR HEARTS, HIS MEOMORY BARE"
HARRY V. PURCELL
1827 – 1924
LEE NORTON
1865 – 1929
ANDREW B. HAMILTON
1857 – 1931
VERNON P. FORD
1868 – 1933
C. ARBA MILLSPAUGH
P.E.R.
1880 – 1935
CHARLES SHARP
1871- 1946
EDWARD N. MOCKLER
1879 – 1947
GEORGE JEFFERY
1877 – 1952
JAMES HARRISON
1903 -1977
JAMES H. VOORHEES
P.E.R.
1937 – 2008
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