Overview
About San Francisco National Cemetery
San Francisco National Cemetery is a national cemetery near San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. It lies about 3.0 mi southeast of San Francisco. The grounds sit at about 190 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 150 notable people buried here, including Irvin McDowell, Archie Williams and Edward Dickinson Baker. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656883. The nearest other listed cemetery is Presidio Pet Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Bay Area Cremation - San Francisco in San Francisco, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 4 cemeteries we list in San Francisco County, and 24 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in San Francisco County dates to 1830. 2 of the 4 listings in San Francisco County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, San Francisco. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable burials
Notable people buried at San Francisco National Cemetery
Among them: 35 Medal of Honor recipients, 29 World War II veterans, 28 World War I veterans, 20 Civil War veterans, 18 Spanish-American War veterans, 9 Korean War veterans, 5 Mexican-American War veterans, 4 US representatives.
- Irvin McDowell1818-1885American general
- Archie Williams1915-1993American sprinter and mathematics teacher
- Edward Dickinson Baker1811-1861American politician, lawyer and military leader
- John W. Gardner1912-2002American politician
- Pauline Cushman1833-1893American actress and Civil War spy
- Sala Burton1925-1987American politician
- William F. Dean1899-1981United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Phillip Burton1926-1983American politician
- Hunter Liggett1857-1935American army officer
- Robert T. Frederick1907-1970American military officer (1907-1970); recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- William Rufus Shafter1835-1906United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Chapman Grant1887-1983American zoologist, historian and publisher
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- Frederick Funston1865-1917United States Army general, Medal of Honor recipient and botanist
- George Paul Miller1891-1982American politician
- Sarah A. Bowman1810-1866American innkeeper, restaurateur, and madam.
- William R. Peers1914-1984United States general
- Charles DeRudio1832-1910U.S. Army officer who fought in the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Edmund Sebree1898-1966United States general
- Nathan Post1881-1938Governor of American Samoa
- Charles Boxton1860-1927American mayor
- Charles Varnum1849-1936United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Emory Sherwood Adams1881-1967United States Army general
- Jesse Root Grant1858-1934(1858-1934) American politician, child of Ulysses S. Grant
- John Henry Parker1866-1942United States Army general
- Lionel C. McGarr1904-1988American military officer (1904-1988); recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Reginald B. Desiderio1918-1950United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert Milchrist Cannon1901-1976United States general
- William Allen1845-1882U.S. Army soldier, born 1845
- William Wilson1847-1895Received the Medal of Honor twice
- Ben Harrell1911-1981United States Army general
- Daniel Harkins1836-1902American actor
- Henry E. Noyes1839-1919American army officer who fought in the American Civil War, the Great Sioux War of 1876 and the Spanish-American War
- John Chowning Gresham1851-1926United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- Lawrence Castner1902-1949American military officer and fencer
- Rapp Brush1889-1958American general
- Richard M. Blatchford1859-1934United States Army general
- Richard Realf1832-1878American poet
- William Badders1901-1986United States Navy sailor
- Yvonne Daunt1899-1962French dancer
- Adam Casad1878-1927American football player
- Adam Neder1865-1910United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Albert Moore1862-1916United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Andrew V. Stoltenberg1865-1921United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Barton S. Alexander1819-1878Architect and Union Army general
- Bernard Taylor1844-1875United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Brookner Brady1905-1977American military officer and modern pentathlete
- Charles S. Farnsworth1862-1955United States Army general
- Dwight Johns1894-1977United States Army general
- Edward Mann Lewis1863-1949US Army general
- Eugene M. Landrum1891-1967American Army general
- George W. Wallace1872-1946Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
- James Woodruff1877-1969American military officer
- Jesse A. Ladd1887-1957American general
- John C. Cremony1815-1879American newspaperman
- Joseph Compton Castner1869-1946United States Army general
- Lloyd Seibert1889-1972United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Oscar Walter Farenholt1845-1920United States Navy admiral
- Reba Z. Whittle1919-1981United States Army nurse and prisoner of war
- Reuben Jasper Phillips1874-1936United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Samri Baldwin1848-1924American magician
- Tom Carey1846-1906American baseball player born 1846
- Walter C. Sweeney Sr.1876-1963United States Army general
- Washington Lafayette Elliott1825-1888Union Army general
- William R. Parnell1836-1910United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Abraham DeSomer1884-1974United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Abram Wood1844-1894Military superintendent of Yosemite national park
- Alfred William Bjornstad1874-1934United States Army brigadier general
- Alice Kingsbury Cooley1839-1910British American actress and author
- Anthony Wayne Vogdes1843-1923American Army officer and palaeontologist
- Carroll Augustine Devol1859-1930United States Army general
- Charles Woodruff1845-1920Brigadier General
- Cornelius J. Leahy1872-1900United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Dennis Hadley Currie1874-1928United States military officer
- Edward Otho Cresap Ord II1858-1923American military officer, linguist and inventor
- Elizabeth D'Arcy Kinne1843-1918American organizational leader; national president, Woman's Relief Corps
- Franz Anton Itrich1853-1933United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- George F. Brock1872-1914United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- George G. Gatley1868-1931United States Army general
- George O Cress1862-1954United States Army officer
- Hayward Ellis King1928-1990African-American visual artist
- James Coey1841-1918Medal of Honor recipient
- James L. Bradley1891-1957United States Army general
- James Madison1842-1926United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- James R. N. Weaver1888-1967United States Army general
- John E. Theimer1907-2001American Army general
- John W. Bowen1910-1977United States Army lieutenant general
- Karl Thomas1871-1900United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Lewis Edward Goodier, Sr.1857-1935
- Marcel Gustave Crombez1900-1982Belgian-American military officer
- Matthew Arther1835-1890United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Matthias W. Day1853-1927American army colonel
- Milton B. Halsey1894-1990United States Army general
- Norman W. Ressler1873-1914United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Odus Creamer Horney1866-1957United States Army general
- Oliver Duff Greene1833-1904United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert L. Howze Jr.1903-1983American military officer
- Robert Leahy Fair1923-1983United States Army field commander during Cold War, and Lieutenant General in the United States Army
- Robert Mearns1866-1949United States Army general
- Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott1928-2004American diplomat
- Rowdy Elliott1890-1934American baseball player
- Thora Bratt1889-1972Norwegian pianist
- William R. Gruber1890-1979American Army General
- Axel Westermark1875-1911United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Benjamin G. Barney1827-1886American Civil War general
- George M. Shelton1877-1949Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
- Hannah Kallem1865-1937Norwegian-born American army nurse
- Hobart Hewett1900-1967American military officer
- Howard B. Cushing1838-1871Union Army officer
- Jacob B. Rawles1839-1919American military officer
- James M. Bell1837-1919American Army general
- John Considine1889-1960American military officer and sport shooter
- John Hayden1863-1934United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Marcus Craig1873-1918American World War I casualty
- John S. Lawton1858-1909United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Joseph G. Hopkins1900-1981American Air Force general
- Joseph P. Vachon1887-1961American Army general
- Joseph Stewart1822-1904American army commander
- Lewis K. Underhill1888-1971American Army lawyer
- Louis C. Mosher1880-1958Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
- Rade Grbitch1870-1910United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Raymond Westcott Briggs1878-1959United States Army general
- T. C. Locke1881-1946American football player, adjutant general
- Walter J. Muller1895-1967American military officer
- William C Davis1866-1958Davis, William C; class of 1890
- William Foster1832-1880British-born soldier of 4th U.S. Cavalry during the Texas, Indian Wars, recipient of the Medal of Honor
- William McCleave1825-1904American soldier
- William S. McCaskey1843-19142 Oct 1843 - certain 10 Aug 1914
- Alfred August Kessler1898-1956American military officer
- Bradley V. Sargent Jr.1893-1918American World War I soldier
- Charles B Vogdes1856-1922Vogdes, Charles B; class of 1880
- Charles C. DeRudio1900-1910?-1910 US Army major in the Spanish-American War
- Edith Adriance1893-1991
- Edwin Allen Sherman Jr.1873-1960American lawyer and soldier
- Elon Farnsworth Willcox1855-1910West Point graduate
- ?-1890 US Army captain buried in San Francisco National Cemetery
- George L. Scott1849-1926
- Henry Bartling1830-1889American businessman and Civil War officer
- Hiram McLemore Powell1867-1913West Point graduate, class of 1890
- Ian Donald Terner1939-1996American architect & nonprofit administrator
- John A. Howarth1896-1936American veterinarian
- John C. Robinson1915-1988US Army captain
- John D. Miley1862-1899American military officer
- John Paul Ryan1867-1936Military officer and professor of military science
- John Torrence Nance1864-1938United States Army officer and West Point graduate
- Lewis L. Isberg1863-1919Norwegian-born U.S. Army soldier who discovered Isberg Pass
- Mary Hooper Perrydied 1945Namesake of Marie Lake in the Sierra Nevada; daughter of Major William Burchell Hooper (died 1945)
- Robert A. Brown1859-1937American military officer
- Valeria Biddle Blaney1828-1900American zoological collector
- William F. Gent1890-1958Professor of military science
- William Renwick Smedberg1839-1911
People whose Wikidata entry gives San Francisco National 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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Services & features
What San Francisco National 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.
Within 15 miles
Nearby cemeteries
- Presidio Pet CemeterySan Francisco, CAPet cemetery0.3 mi
- Yerba Buena Cemetery (historical)San Francisco, CACemetery3.1 mi
- Mission Dolores Cemetery320 Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA · est. 1830Christian cemetery3.2 mi
- Fernwood CemeteryTamalpais-Homestead Valley, CACemetery6.2 mi
- Olivet Memorial ParkColma, CAMemorial park7.9 mi
- Japanese Cemetery1300 Hillside Boulevard, Colma, CACemetery8.0 mi
- Italian Cemetery540 F Street, Colma, CA · est. 1899Cemetery8.1 mi
- Woodlawn Memorial Park1000 El Camino Real, Colma, CAMemorial park8.2 mi
- Eternal Home Cemetery1051 El Camino Real, Colma, CAJewish cemetery8.3 mi
- Serbian Cemetery1801 Hillside Boulevard, Colma, CACemetery8.3 mi
Funeral providers
Funeral homes near San Francisco National Cemetery
- Bay Area Cremation - San Francisco1.3 miCremation provider · San Francisco · (628) 216-2246
- Tulip Cremation1.3 miCremation provider · San Francisco · (844) 942-4909
- Evergreen Mortuary1.3 miMortuary · San Francisco · (415) 730-1610
- San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · San Francisco · (415) 771-0717
- Sullivan's And Duggan's Serra Funeral Services1.8 miFuneral home · San Francisco · (415) 621-4567
- The Bryant Mortuary2.5 miMortuary · San Francisco · (415) 861-4559
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Frequently asked questions
What are the visiting hours of San Francisco National Cemetery?
The recorded hours are: 06:00-18:00. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery.
Guides
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- Who Qualifies for Burial in a National Cemetery?VA eligibility for veterans, service members, spouses and dependents, what is provided at no cost, and how to apply for pre-need eligibility.
- How Do You Find Where Someone Is Buried?A step-by-step method using death records, obituaries, funeral homes, cemetery offices and online indexes.