Lake View Cemetery is a private cemetery located in Seattle, Washington, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just north of Volunteer Park. Known as "Seattle's Pioneer Cemetery," it is run by an independent, non-profit association. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery and later renamed for its view of Lake Washington to the east.
Interments
- Princess Angeline - daughter of Chief Seattle
- Walter B. Beals - Chief Justice Washington State Supreme Court. Presiding Judge, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946-1947.
- Beriah Brown - Mayor of Seattle
- Gottlieb Burian - Founder of the city of Burien, Washington
- Denny Party members (Seattle pioneers), including:
- Carson Boren
- Arthur A. Denny
- David Swinson "Doc" Maynard
- Thomas Mercer
- Henry Yesler - Seattle's first economic father and first millionaire
- William Grose - second black resident of Seattle
- Granville O. Haller - businessman and military officer
- Thaddeus Hanford - Seattle newspaper editor
- Don A. Jones - Rear admiral in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, final director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and first director of the National Ocean Service
- Bruce Lee - martial artist and actor
- Brandon Lee - actor; martial artist
- Denise Levertov - poet
- William Harvey Lillard - first chiropractic patient
- Eugene McAllaster - naval architect; designer of the fireboat Duwamish
- John W. Nordstrom - founder of Nordstrom department store
- Guy Carleton Phinney - developer whose land became the Woodland Park
- A. W. Piper - pioneer, baker, socialist Seattle City Council member, eponym of Pipers Creek and Piper Orchard
- George Tsutakawa - Northwest School painter and sculptor
- Cordelia Wilson - American Southwest painter
- Guendolen Plestcheeff
Monuments
Lake View includes the Nisei War Memorial Monument, a 21-foot column erected in 1949, listing the names of 47 Japanese American soldiers from Seattle who were killed during World War II. The Nisei Veterans Committee, in response to the US Army's plans in late 1947 to return Washington's Nisei war dead, began a door-to-door fundraising campaign in the Puget Sound region, collecting donations of $1 to $5, and raising over $10,000 to construct the memorial. Later, 9 more names of Seattle area service members of Japanese ancestry killed in Korea, Vietnam and Granada were added to names on the memorial.
The cemetery has a memorial to Confederate veterans erected in 1926 by Seattle's chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, on the site of 11 graves, the only burial ground in the Northwest of Confederate soldiers. In 2017, in response to the Charlottesville, Virginia Unite the Right rally, and the increased pace of the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in other parts of the country, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said, "Seattle needs to join with cities and towns across the country who are sending a strong message by taking these archaic symbols down," acknowldeging that Lake View is private property outside the city's control. Murray also called for the removal of the Statue of Lenin in Fremont, also on private property, prompting the Seattle City Council to consider debating a symbolic resolution asking for the removal of the two monuments. Washington State Senator Reuven Carlyle responded with a defense of artistic freedom and political commentary, and of the value of art, even when it is offensive.
See also
- Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (Seattle)
References
External links
- Official website
- FindAGrave Lake View Cemetery
