Rock Creek Cemetery
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Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home
Rock Creek Cemetery in September 2008
Adams Memorial, designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens as a gravestone for Marian Hooper Adams, a Washington, D.C. socialite who committed suicide in 1885. A replica sits in the National Portrait Gallery.
The mausoleum's interior at Rock Creek Cemetery
Gravesite of inventor Emile Berliner and his family members
Opha May Johnson
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Opha May Johnson was an American Marine reservist who was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. She joined the Marine Corps Reserve on August 13, 1918, officially b
Rock Creek Cemetery
…John Johnson (1842–1907), Medal of Honor recipient Opha May Johnson (1879–1955), 1st known female U.S. Marine (1918) Samuel H. Kauffmann (1829–1906) newspaper publisher…
Opha May Johnson in 1918
Johnson's grave marker, unveiled on August 29, 2018