Greenwood Cemetery is located in Shoshone County, Idaho. Kellogg is in the Idaho Panhandle in the Silver Valley region. Kellogg has a population of approximately 2,075 residents.
In 1885, Noah Kellogg discovered an outcropping of Galena high on a hillside above Milo Gulch. This discovery spurred the settlements of Wardner and Kellogg, and later became the famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines.
Greenwood Cemetery is approximately 14 acres in size and is beautifully maintained. At the entrance there are two American Flags and as you continue on there is a row of flags nearing the Veterans' section of the cemetery. There is a Veterans' memorial surrounded by flush grave markers of local veterans.
There are two famous individuals at rest in the Greenwood Cemetery:
Frank Stanley Reasoner (16 September 1937 - 12 July 1965) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions above and beyond the call of duty in 1965 during the Vietnam War.
Also, John Sewell "Jack" Langrishe (September 24, 1825 - December 12, 1895), popularly known as the "Comedian of the Frontier", was an Irish-American actor and impresario who travelled extensively throughout the American West and later in life became one of the first State Senators of Idaho.
Greenwood Cemetery was established around 1913 and has approximately 5,226 known interments with the first of:
Romeo A Albinola was born on January 17, 1892 and passed away on August 3, 1913.