page_title: Rock Creek Cemetery
section_title: V
hierarchical_section_title: Rock Creek Cemetery / Interments / V
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of gravesite of Charles Walcott Gibbs, the geologist and Smithsonian administrator
context_page_description: Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It is across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.
context_section_description: Tran Van Chuong (1898–1986), South Vietnam's Ambassador to the U.S., appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem
  Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (section R-11)
  Gore Vidal (1925–2012), author and playwright, next to his companion of 50 years Howard Austen. (section E)
caption: Gravesite of Charles Doolittle Walcott
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