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Winners of the cemetery人妖色情片檚 photo contest will be announced during the anniversary event. The Spring Hill Cemetery photo contest that started on Aug. 19, 2024, and ends on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, will feature categories celebrating the cemetery人妖色情片檚 scenic and historical aspects.

Eldora McCoy, cemeteries operations manager for the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District, said the cemetery holds much of Huntington人妖色情片檚 history.

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The cemetery is the final resting place for many figures who were integral parts of Huntington人妖色情片檚 making such as Delos Emmons, the brother-in-law of Collis P. Huntington and Charles Ritter, whom Ritter Park is named after. Ritter donated 20 acres of land for the creation of the park.

Confederate Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins and Union General John Hunt Oley are also buried on the grounds. The Pallottine Missionary Sisters, who established St. Mary人妖色情片檚 Hospital (now Medical Center), also have a section in the cemetery.

Although the first official burial was of Josephine Webb in 1873, there are several older unofficial graves, the earliest being Elizabeth Prosser in 1838, McCoy said. When the first burial was recorded, the cemetery was 29.8 acres and was located outside the city limits. Today, the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District owns and maintains the land. Since its inception the cemetery has grown to 110 acres, surrounded by Huntington neighborhoods.

The cemetery is also the final resting place for over 300 Civil War veterans, union soldiers and confederate soldiers人妖色情片� sections.

The cemetery is the burial site of several of the Marshall football team members who died in the 1970 plane crash. The Marshall Memorial is also located on the ground人妖色情片檚 northwest promontory. It was dedicated in 1971 to those who died in the crash.

The Paul Ambrose Trail for Health (PATH), a wellness trail dedicated to Dr. Paul Ambrose, winds through Spring Hill Cemetery. Ambros is buried at the cemetery. He was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Ambrose, who also has a Memorial Bell Tower at the cemetery, is honored every year during the park districts Patriot Day ceremony on Sept. 11.

The cemetery also lies Mary Eloise Hughes Smith, Titanic survivor: Revella Hughes, a performer and was activist in the national Black movement: Frederick G. L. Beuhring, an early entrepreneur in the shipping industry and was an early sheriff, magistrate and co-founder of Marshall College: James L. Caldwell, the first president of the 1st National Bank, and builder of the Huntington Electric Railway, according to Cabell County Doors to the Past website.

The event is open to the public, and everyone is invited to join in the festivities. For more information about the anniversary celebration or the photo contest, contact Administrative Assistant Jamie Toth at jtoth@ghprd.org or call 304-696-5516.