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Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery (a.k.a. Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is located at 385651° North and 0770041° West in Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C. The Cemetery falls under the goverance of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, seat of Rock Creek parish.
Notable persons interred at Rock Creek Cemetery
- Henry Adams, Writer. Descendent of John Quincy Adams & John Adams.
- Clover Adams , Wife of Henry Adams; Washington D.C. hostess. Her grave is marked by the sculpture "Grief" designed and cast by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Republican Party icon, Daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
- Patricia Roberts Harris, Ambassador, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and its successor, the Department of Health and Human Services. The first African American female to serve in a Presidential Cabinet.
- Evalyn Walsh McLean, Millionairess and one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post.
- Paulina Sturm , Daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth (Longworth is buried in his native Cincinnati, Ohio).
- Upton Sinclair, Noted American writer.
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