About Maple Hill Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It lies about 0.7 mi west of Huntsville. It carries a heritage listing (NRHP 12000523). The grounds sit at about 709 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 53 notable people buried here, including John Sparkman, Clement Comer Clay and LeRoy Pope Walker. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 122267. The nearest other listed cemetery is Glenwood Cemetery, about 1.7 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Serenity Funeral Home in Huntsville, about 1.9 mi away. It is one of 377 cemeteries we list in Madison County, and 169 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Huntsville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Maple Hill Cemetery
Among them: 11 US representatives, 6 US senators, 5 governors, 5 inventors and engineers, 5 writers, 4 scientists, 3 Civil War veterans, 2 football players.
- John Sparkman1899-1985American jurist and politician
- Clement Comer Clay1789-1866American politician
- LeRoy Pope Walker1817-1884Confederate Army general
- Thomas Bibb1783-1839American politician
- Reuben Chapman1799-1882American politician
- Jeremiah Clemens1814-1865U.S. Senator, novelist
- Clement Claiborne Clay1816-1882American lawyer, judge and politician
- Konrad Dannenberg1912-2009Rocket pioneer
- David P. Lewis1820-1884American politician
- Harry Townes1914-2001American actor
- John Williams Walker1783-1823American politician
- Georg von Tiesenhausen1914-2018Baltic German, American aerospace engineer
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- Walter Haeussermann1914-2010German-American aerospace engineer
- William Smith1762-1840Member of U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816
- Peter Petroff1919-2003Bulgarian Inventor NASA Rocket Scientist
- Robert M. Patton1809-1885American politician
- William N. Richardson1839-1914Confederate Army soldier
- Fritz Mueller1907-2001Engineer from Germany
- LeRoy Pope1765-1844American judge
- Albert Russel Erskine1871-1933American businessman
- Lowndes Henry Davis1836-1920American politician
- Maria Howard Weeden1846-1905Artist, author
- Peter Myndert Dox1813-1891American politician
- Richard Wilde Walker1823-1874American politician
- William M. Lowe1842-1882American politician
- William Willis Garth1828-1912American politician
- Addison White1824-1909Politician
- Alyne Dumas Lee1903-1970American soprano soloist
- Norah Davis1861-1936American novelist
- Virginia Clay-Clopton1825-1915American suffragist
- William T. H. Brooks1821-1870Union Army general
- Don Mincher1938-2012American baseball player and executive
- Gilbert M. L. Johnson1837-1871Union United States Army general
- Jabez Leftwich1765-1855American politician
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss1826-1911American politician
- Nicholas Davis Jr.1825-1875American politician
- Richard Wilde Walker Jr.1857-1936American judge
- Robert L. Spragins1890-1964United States Army general
- Tommy Lewis1931-2014American football player
- Albert McDonald1931-2014American politician
- Billy Neighbors1940-2012American football player
- Heinrich Struck1925-2020German-American rocket scientist
- Arad Simon Lakin1810-1890American minister, university president
- Axel Roth1936-2008German engineer
- Jack Giles Sr.1915-1982American politician
- Martha Darwin Thompson1903-1964
- T. T. Terry1865-1941American politician
- William Holding Echols1834-1909American soldier
- Addison White1884-1943American lawyer
- Jessup Whitehead1833-1889British-American writer and chef
- Joseph Monroe Hinds1842-1901
- Margaret Matthews Cowart1925-2011Author and genealogist
- Robert Harvey Countess1937-2005College professor, lecturer, and author
People whose Wikidata entry gives Maple 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.
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What Maple 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
- Glenwood CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery1.7 mi
- Rowe CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery2.7 mi
- Merrimack CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery2.8 mi
- Nickle - Martin - Rathbone CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.1 mi
- Brandontown CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.3 mi
- Powell CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.3 mi
- Northside CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.5 mi
- Harris CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.5 mi
- Johnson CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.5 mi
- Sivley CemeteryHuntsville, ALCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Maple Hill Cemetery
- Serenity Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Huntsville · (256) 539-9693
- Berryhill Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Huntsville · (256) 536-9197
- Laughlin Service Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Huntsville · (256) 534-2471
- Spry Funeral Home and Crematory2.0 miCremation provider · Huntsville · (256) 536-6654
- Nelms Memorial Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Huntsville · (256) 539-8189
- Royal Funeral Home3.6 miFuneral home · Huntsville · (256) 534-8481
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