About Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. It lies about 3.4 mi southwest of Birmingham. The grounds sit at about 659 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 7 notable people buried here, including Rufus W. Cobb, Guila Bustabo and Alfred M. Boone. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 118490. The nearest other listed cemetery is Greenwood Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Eastside Funeral Home in Birmingham, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 109 cemeteries we list in Jefferson County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Birmingham. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Hill Cemetery
Among them: 1 football player, 1 architect, 1 baseball player, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 musician.
- Rufus W. Cobb1829-1913Governor of Alabama from 1878 to 1882
- Guila Bustabo1916-2002American musician
- Alfred M. Boone1893-1961American football player, baseball player, athletics administrator, insurance executive
- Garry Spiegle1945-2018American game designer
- William H. Bancroft1904-1993American college football, basketball and baseball coach
- Daniel Andrew Helmich1854-1917Architect
- Thomas Wesley Rogers1900-1973Professor Of Business
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Hill Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
33.54871, -86.75415
What Forest Hill Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Greenwood CemeteryBirmingham, ALCemetery0.3 mi
- Inglenook CemeteryTarrant, ALCemetery1.7 mi
- East Lake CemeteryIrondale, ALCemetery1.8 mi
- McElwain Baptist CemeteryMountain Brook, ALBaptist cemetery2.5 mi
- Bush CemeteryIrondale, ALCemetery2.6 mi
- Higgins CemeteryTarrant, ALCemetery3.2 mi
- Zion Memorial GardensTarrant, ALMemorial park3.4 mi
- Sharit CemeteryTarrant, ALCemetery3.5 mi
- Oak Hill CemeteryBirmingham, ALCemetery3.9 mi
- Bass CemeteryIrondale, ALCemetery4.0 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Hill Cemetery
- Eastside Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Birmingham · (205) 592-2233
- Dante Jelks Funeral Home, LLC - Birmingham1.0 miFuneral home · Birmingham · (205) 595-0111
- Mullins Metropolitan Funeral1.1 miFuneral home · Birmingham · (205) 592-6500
- Aubrey Bushelon Funeral Directing & Cremation Services1.8 miCremation provider · Birmingham · (205) 956-8388
- JMW Mortuary2.2 miMortuary · Birmingham · (205) 849-1945
- Earnest Johnson Funeral Home, Inc.2.5 miFuneral home · Birmingham · (205) 836-3583
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