About Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery is a cemetery near National City, San Diego County, California. It lies about 2.2 mi south of National City. The grounds sit at about 112 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 42 notable people buried here, including Raymond Chandler, Samuel Brannan and Roy Stewart. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 246262. The nearest other listed cemetery is Beth Israel Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Funeraria del Angel San Diego in San Diego, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 71 cemeteries we list in San Diego County, and 16 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 71 listings in San Diego County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, National City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Hope Cemetery
Among them: 5 writers, 4 business leaders, 3 artists, 3 scientists, 2 US representatives, 1 actor, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 governor.
- Raymond Chandler1888-1959American novelist and screenwriter
- Samuel Brannan1819-1889American politician
- Roy Stewart1883-1933Actor
- Robert Waterman1826-1891Governor of California
- John Stone Stone1869-1943American electrical engineer
- Charles T. Hinde1832-1915Industrialist
- Esther Thelen1941-2004American psychologist & scholar
- John Coleman1847-1897United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient, born 1847
- John F. Kinney1816-1902American politician
- Benjamin Todd Frederick1834-1903American politician
- David Charles Collier1871-1934San Diego developer and philanthropist
- Samuel Fleming Barr1829-1919American politician
Show all 42 notable burials
- Almeda Lambert1863-1921American cookbook writer and businessperson
- John L. Sehon1862-1913American mayor
- Mary Chase Walker1828-1899American schoolteacher, pioneer, and suffragette
- Mary Dranga Campbell1867-1957American social worker
- Thomas Whaley1823-1890Early settler of San Diego
- Alta M. Hulett1854-1877American lawyer
- Allen Manvel1837-1893American businessman
- Datus Ensing Coon1831-1893Union Army colonel and Alabama politician
- Elmer E. Starr1873-1953American photographer and postcard publisher
- Kate L. Fick Jeancon1884-1969Canadian-American court reporter
- Leslie William Lee1871-1951American painter
- Melvin H. Sykes1869-1949American photographer
- Nicholas Hunsaker1825-1913American sheriff
- Walter R. Taliaferro1880-1915American aviator
- Charles H. Barbour, Jr.1919-2012U.S. Army service member and officer, 370th Infantry Battalion
- Edward Albert Fargo1899-1986Heir
- Edyth Frieseke1872-1945Sister of impressionist painter Frederick Carl Frieseke
- Eliza Shaw Halliday1839-1899
- Elizabeth Eastin Gray Orcutt1825-1909American poet
- Gustavus A. Thompson1862-1947
- Harriet Webster Dabney1830-1924
- Henry Frank Katzenbach1875-1960American person
- Isadore Hagenbuck1844-1908America business woman and botanical collector
- Lesley Stern1950-2021Australian film scholar
- Lucius Edgar Ricksecker1841-1913American entomologist and lepidopterist
- Marshall Mead Chipman1822-1899American botanist and physician
- Mary Stoddard Snyder1838-1926American botanist and botanical collector
- Melicent Humason Lee1889-1943American writer
- Nathan Harrison1833-1920San Diego pioneer
- War correspondent during American Civil War
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Hope 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
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What Mount Hope 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
- Beth Israel CemeteryNational City, CAJewish cemetery0.1 mi
- Home of Peace CemeteryNational City, CACemetery0.3 mi
- Cypress View MausoleumNational City, CACemetery0.4 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryNational City, CACemetery0.6 mi
- Holy Cross CemeteryNational City, CACemetery1.0 mi
- la Vista CemeteryChula Vista, CACemetery3.9 mi
- First United Methodist Church ColumbariumSan Diego, CAMethodist cemetery4.4 mi
- Calvary CemeterySan Diego, CACemetery4.7 mi
- Glen Abbey Memorial ParkBonita, CAMemorial park5.5 mi
- El Campo SantoSan Diego, CACatholic cemetery5.5 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Hope Cemetery
- Funeraria del Angel San Diego0.3 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 241-4704
- Cypress View Mausoleum, Mortuary and Crematory0.4 miCremation provider · San Diego · (619) 264-3168
- Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary0.6 miMortuary · San Diego · (619) 450-1479
- San Diego Memorial Chapel0.9 miFuneral chapel · San Diego
- Funeraria La Paz1.5 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 531-8800
- Thresholds Home and Family-Directed Funerals1.7 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 719-1156
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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