There are more than 300,000 people interred at Arlington.
pvt. William christman
1738
the first unknown soldier was buried there
William Henry Christman
It became a military cemetery in 1864 and on May 13, 1864, a Confederate prisoner was the first soldier buried there.
She is buried with her first husband John, in Arlington Cemetery.
The Unknown Soldier
Taft was the first of only two US Presidents to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. The second is John F. Kennedy.
FIRST PERSON BURIED IN ARLINGTON ESTATE: MARY ANN RANDOLPH, SECTION 45 FIRST MILITARY PERSON BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: PRIVATE WILLIAM HENRY CHRISTMAN, SECTION 27, 13 MAY 1864 FIRST OFFICER BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY: CAPTAIN ALBERT H. PACKARD, SECTION 26, 15 MAY 1864 PRESIDENTS BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, SECTION 30; THE ONLY AMERICAN TO BE BOTH PRESIDENT AND CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, SECTION 45 FIVE STAR OFFICERS BURRIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: GENERAL HENRY "HAP" ARNOLD, U.S. ARMY AND U.S. AIR FORCE, SECTION 34 GENERAL OMAR NELSON BRADLEY, U.S. ARMY, SECTION 30 ADMIRAL WILLIAM F. HALSEY JR., U.S. NAVY, SECTION 2 ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY, U.S. NAVY, SECTION 2 GENERAL GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL, U.S. ARMY, SECTION 7
Former Arlington Estate slave James Parks was the only person born on and buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He also dug the first graves there.
...No one knows who he was. That is the reason for the name it is the tomb of the unknown soldier. It is where unidentified remains could be remembered, if they could identify who the people were they wouldn't be in the tomb of the unknown soldier instead they would be buried with a headstone that bore their name.
That is an ongoing debate. There are 2 possible answers. One was US Navy, and also the first to be interred at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. The other was Army. He too is buried at Arlington.
The first unknown soldier was said to be buried in "The Tomb of The Unknowns"(there were more unknown soldiers that died and were buried in the same tomb, I won't say what it was called before that because some school teachers request this for homework) :P
Patrick Kennedy was not always buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was first laid to rest in the Kennedy family cemetery in Boston shortly after his death on August 9th, 1963. At the request of the widow of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, the remains of Patrick and his stillborn sister Arabella Kennedy were moved to Arlington National Cemetery to be laid to rest with their father's remains. The remains were moved in 1964, during the construction of the first permanent grave site for President Kennedy.