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=== Military figures ===
* [[American Civil War]] generals for the Union army: [[Thomas Armstrong Morris]], [[Edward Canby|Edward Richard Sprigg Canby]], [[Jefferson C. Davis]], [[Abel Streight]], [[George Francis McGinnis]], [[John Parker Hawkins]], [[Robert Sanford Foster]], [[John Coburn (Indiana politician)|John Coburn]], [[Frederick Knefler]], and [[George Henry Chapman]].<ref>{{cite book| first=Anna| last=Nicholas| title=The Story of Crown Hill| publisher=Crown Hill Association| year=1928| location=Indianapolis| pages=167–73, 177, 180–82| isbn =978-0871953018}}</ref><ref>Wissing, p. 64.</ref>
* The remains of 1,616 Confederate soldiers who died during their confinement at [[Camp Morton]], a Union prison camp in Indianapolis. Their remains were transferred to Crown Hill in 1931.<ref name=Conn81>{{cite book| first=Earl L.| last=Conn| title=My Indiana: 101 Places to See| publisher=[[Indiana Historical Society]] Press| year=2006| location=Indianapolis| page=81| isbn=978-0871951953}}</ref>
* Two British [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|Commonwealth service personnel]] are buried in this cemetery, one from each World War: Captain Joseph Hammond of the [[Royal Air Force]], killed in 1918,<ref>[http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/4010256 Canadian Virtual War Memorial]</ref> and Warrant Officer Thomas Taggart Young, [[Royal Canadian Air Force]], who died in 1942.<ref name=cwgc>{{cite web| title=Casualty Details: Young, Thomas Taggart| publisher=Commonwealth War Games Commission| url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2719732/YOUNG,%20THOMAS%20TAGGART| access-date=June 23, 2014}}</ref>