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Bill CothernElmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee) Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee) Historic cemetery in Shelby County, Tennessee For other places with the same name, see Elmwood Cemetery (disambiguation). Elmwood Cemetery is the oldest active cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1852 as one of the first rural cemeteries in the South. Quick facts Location, Coordinates ... Elmwood Cemetery, Office, and Entrance Bridge U.S. National Register of Historic Places Location Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Coordinates 35°07′19″N 90°01′45″W NRHP reference No. 78002632; 02000233 Added to NRHP May 22, 1978; March 20, 2002 Close Elmwood Cemetery A funeral scene in Paramount's 1993 legal thriller The Firm was filmed here.[citation needed] Origins Elmwood Cemetery was established as part of the Rural Cemetery Movement of the early-to-mid-19th… (Source: Wikipedia)
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