About Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1877. The grounds sit at about 322 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 105 notable people buried here, including Louise Beavers, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and William J. Seymour. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 242107. The nearest other listed cemetery is Los Angeles County Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is A Serenity Funeral & Cremation Services in Los Angeles, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 33 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Los Angeles County dates to 1860. 20 of the 101 listings in Los Angeles County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Evergreen Cemetery
Among them: 16 actors, 9 musicians, 5 business leaders, 4 Medal of Honor recipients, 4 World War II veterans, 3 physicians, 3 writers, 2 artists.
- Louise Beavers1900-1962American actress
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson1905-1977American comedian and actor
- William J. Seymour1870-1922American minister
- Florence Barker1891-1913Silent film actress
- Stymie Beard1925-1981American actor
- Jimmie Noone1895-1944American musician
- Purnell Pratt1878-1941American actor
- Phillip Walker1937-2010American electric blues guitarist
- Steve Clemente1882-1950Mexican actor
- Everett Brown1902-1953Actor
- Frances O'Connor1914-1982American actress
- Misak Torlakyan1889-1968Armenian assassin
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- Charlotta Bass1874-1969American newspaper publisher
- Gary Vinson1936-1984American actor
- Katherine Grant1904-1937Actress
- Tōyō Miyatake1895-1979American photographer
- Biddy Mason1818-1891American business woman
- Frederick Madison Roberts1879-1952African-American politician, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson
- Kenny Washington1918-1971American football player
- Jesse Belvin1932-1960American singer
- Johnny St. Cyr1890-1966American musician
- Cameron E. Thom1825-1915American politician
- Henry T. Hazard1844-1921American politician
- James Banning1899-1933American aviator
- Joe Hayashi1920-1945United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Kiyoshi Muranaga1922-1944United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Sadao Munemori1922-1945United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Alonzo Clayton1876-1917American jockey
- Edward Falles Spence1832-1892American politician
- Georgianna K. Offutt1868-1949American suffragist and physician
- Pete Burness1904-1969American animator
- Sarah Bixby Smith1871-1935American writer
- William F. Cogswell1819-1903American artist
- William H. Workman1839-1918American politician
- Biz Mackey1897-1965American Hall of Fame baseball player
- Charles A. Canfield1848-1913American oilman
- Donaldina Cameron1869-1968Presbyterian missionary in San Francisco Chinatown
- Dorothy Vena Johnson1898-1970American poet
- Earl Rogers1869-1922American lawyer
- Gilbert W. Lindsay1900-1990American politician
- Guilford Wiley Wells1840-1909American politician
- Isaac Newton Van Nuys1836-1912American farmer
- James R. Toberman1836-1911American politician
- Joseph Widney1841-1938American scientist
- Mary Emily Foy1862-1962American librarian
- Spencer Chan1892-1988American actor
- Benjamin C. Truman1835-1916American journalist
- Bernice Love Wiggins1897-1936African American poet
- Bob Relf1937-2007American R&B musician
- Bobby Nunn1925-1986American boxer; R&B singer
- Boyle Workman1868-1942American politician
- Carl Ingold Jacobson1877-1960American politician
- Charles Price Jones1865-1949American bishop
- James Bassett1834-1906American missionary
- John Edward Hollenbeck1829-1885American businessman
- John Larkin1877-1936American vaudeville performer and actor
- John Laurence Seymour1893-1986American musician
- John Lester Johnson1893-196820th-century American boxer and actor
- John Strother Griffin1816-1898American physician and businessman
- Myron Norton1821-1857California lawyer
- Samuel Marshall Perry1836-1898American politician
- Ted Tanouye1919-1944United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Wallace Woodworth1832-1882American politician
- Aletha Gilbert1870-1931American civic leader; policewoman; Los Angeles City Mother; clubwoman
- Alexander Craw1850-1908Scottish born American entomologist and horticulturalist
- Earl Bell Gilmore1887-1964American businessperson
- Frank Braxton1929-1969American animator
- George Gephard1830-1901American politician
- Howard E. Dorsey1904-1937American politician
- John F. Godfrey1839-1885American military officer and lawyer
- Jotham Bixby1831-1917American businessperson
- Kate Brousseau1862-1938American professor and researcher on mental hygiene
- Lela Murray1887-1949American businesswoman, civil rights advocate and community leader
- Llewellyn Bixby1825-18964 Oct 1825 - 5 Dec 1896
- Otto Johann Zahn1872-1965American politician
- R.W. Dromgold1856-1918Businessperson and Los Angeles, California politician
- William H. Perry1832-1906Banker
- Carroll Kendrick1815-1891American missionary and minister
- Charles Aaron Bruce Jr.1862-1931Former owner of Bruce's Beach
- Dick Ferris1864-1933American theatre manager
- Dora A. Stearns1883-1942
- Ezra Hamilton1833-1914American pioneer
- Francis Quinn1903-1931American racing driver
- H.V. Van Dusendied 1903American postmaster and politician
- Hugo Zacchini1898-1975Human canonball
- James K. Sturgeon1844-1898American soldier during Civil War
- John Shirley Ward1834-1904American lawyer and editor
- Pearlretta DuPuy1871-1939American zither player and clubwoman
- Ross Corbett Kirkpatrick Jr.1894-1926American aviator, race car driver
- Tien Fuh Wudied 1975Chinese American missionary in San Francisco's Chinatown
- Willa Ann Tillman1862-1934American entrepreneur
- Alvin J. Howe1850-1904American physician; second mayor of Santa Ana, California
- Amos Bixby1822-1894
- Annie Wilhelmina Rose Sanderson1857-1906
- Ellen Hemings Roberts1856-1940Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- Ivan Browning1891-1978American actor
- James C. Cooper1832-1911Mineralogist
- John Shirley Ward, Jr.1895-1962Peerage person ID=69634
- Louisa Earp1855-1894
- Margaret Winslow Bixby1843-19271 Feb 1843 - 13 Feb 1927
- Mary Bixbydied 188217 Feb 1849 - 2 Mar 1882
- Mehitabel Garfield1821-1911Sister of U.S. president James A. Garfield
- Moses Langley Wicks1852-1919
- Texas Ragland1868-19626 Sep 1868 - 26 Jan 1962
- Willella Howe-Waffle1854-1924American physician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Evergreen 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
34.04029, -118.19785
What Evergreen 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
- Los Angeles County Cemetery3301 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, CAMunicipal cemetery0.2 mi
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows CemeteryEast Los Angeles, CACemetery1.2 mi
- Independent Order of Oddfellows CemeteryEast Los Angeles, CACemetery1.2 mi
- Calvary Cemetery4201 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CACatholic cemetery1.5 mi
- Chinese CemeteryEast Los Angeles, CACemetery1.5 mi
- Old Russian Molokan CemeteryEast Los Angeles, CACemetery1.5 mi
- Serbian CemeteryEast Los Angeles, CACemetery1.5 mi
- Agudath Achim Cemetery1022 Downey Road, Los Angeles, CAJewish cemetery1.7 mi
- Mount Zion Cemetery1030 Downey Road, Los Angeles, CAJewish cemetery1.7 mi
- Beth Israel Cemetery1068 Downey Road, Los Angeles, CAJewish cemetery1.8 mi
Funeral homes near Evergreen Cemetery
- A Serenity Funeral & Cremation Services0.6 miCremation provider · Los Angeles · (323) 264-0065
- Castaneda-Crollett Mortuary0.7 miMortuary · Los Angeles · (323) 269-8455
- Funeraria Cervantes1.0 miFuneral home · Los Angeles · (323) 686-7476
- Bagües And Sons Mortuary1.1 miMortuary · Los Angeles · (323) 267-4599
- Felipe Bagues Mortuary1.1 miMortuary · Los Angeles · (323) 268-0759
- Funeraria Latino Americana1.2 miFuneral home · Los Angeles · (323) 265-7016
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Evergreen Cemetery located?
Evergreen Cemetery is at 204 Evergreen Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033 in Los Angeles County. GPS coordinates: 34.04029, -118.19785.
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