Which Adventists Are Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery?

Story by Shannon Kelly / Photo courtesy of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Archives

ROCK CREEK CEMETERY 201 Allison St., NW, Washington, D.C.
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Stroll around the cemetery, and you will find hundreds of Adventist tombstones—including Mimi Scharffenberg’s, a foundational pioneer Adventist missionary in Korea. She later became sick, was admitted to the Washington Sanitarium, and eventually died from the illness. Apollos Hale, a prominent preacher in the Millerite Movement and an editor of the Advent Herald, is also buried there.

“[The Washington, D.C./Takoma Park area] was a major center for Adventism, and many of these early stalwart pioneers are buried here,” says Campbell.

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