Crown Hill Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

• James Whitcomb Riley, poet best known for his poem "Little Orphant Annie"
• Benjamin Harrison, U.S. President, along with his two wives and a daughter
• Template:Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun
• Booth Tarkington, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
• Caroline Harrison, first wife of Benjamin Harrison
• Mary Dimmick Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison
• Mary Harrison McKee, daughter of Benjamin Harrison
• Three Vice Presidents of the United States, Charles W. Fairbanks, Thomas A. Hendricks and Thomas R. Marshall, and vice-presidential nominee George Washington Julian
• Ezra Dee Alexander, founder Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
• Lyman S. Ayres, founder of L. S. Ayres department stores
• Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, record-setting motorcycle racer
• James Baskett, Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South
• Ovid Butler, founder of Butler University
• Julia Carson, former United States Congresswomen of Indiana from the 7th district
• Cecil Duane Crabb, ragtime composer
• Elder Watson Diggs, a founder of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
• John Dillinger, a notorious bank robber
• Howard Garns, inventor of Sudoku
• Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun
• Dr. Guy Levis Grant, a founder of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
• John Wesley Hardrick, artist
• Sarah T. Bolton, poet
• Alfa Lloyd Hayes, a founder of Delta Zeta Sorority
• G T Haywood, First Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.
• Robert Irsay, former owner of the Indianapolis Colts
• Colonel Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company, as well as several of his descendants, including Josiah K. Lilly Sr., Josiah K. Lilly Jr., and Eli Lilly
• Frank McKinney, Olympic gold medal winning swimmer, later president of Bank One of Indiana and civic booster
• Oliver Morton, the famed "War Governor" during the Civil War.
• Alexander Ralston, surveyor who platted Indianapolis in 1821, including the cemetery which Crown Hill eventually replaced
• Toad Ramsey, Major League Baseball player from 1885 through 1890.
• John Woodruff, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Carl Fisher, founder of Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Three Indianapolis 500 winners (Floyd Davis, Louis Schneider, Howdy Wilcox)
• Eleven Indiana Governors
• Kentucky Governor William S. Taylor
• Fourteen United States Senators
• Fourteen Indianapolis Mayors
• Sixteen American Civil War generals, including Union brigadier general Jefferson C. Davis
• 1,616 Confederate soldiers who died during their confinement at the Union prison camp Camp Morton and whose remains were transferred to Crown Hill in 1931.