About Putnam Cemetery
Putnam Cemetery is a cemetery near Cos Cob, Fairfield County, Connecticut. It lies about 2.0 mi southeast of Cos Cob. The grounds sit at about 223 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 44 notable people buried here, including Victor Borge, Prescott Bush and James Greenway. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 210023. The nearest other listed cemetery is Putnam Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Fred D. Knapp and Son Funeral Home in Greenwich, about 2.2 mi away. It is one of 242 cemeteries we list in Fairfield County, and 122 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Fairfield County dates to 1680. 5 of the 242 listings in Fairfield County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cos Cob. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Putnam Cemetery
Among them: 5 writers, 4 business leaders, 4 musicians, 2 actors, 2 artists, 2 inventors and engineers, 1 football player, 1 architect.
- Victor Borge1909-2000Danish comedian and pianist
- Prescott Bush1895-1972American politician and US Senator from Connecticut
- James Greenway1903-1989American ornithologist
- Marian Shockley1908-1981American actress
- William Temple Hornaday1854-1937American conservationist and zoologist
- Anya Seton1904-1990American author of historical fiction
- Martha Moxley1960-1975American high school student and murder victim
- Edward Hibberd Johnson1846-1917American inventor
- Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson1872-1959American author and suffragist
- Alec Templeton1909-1963British composer
- Townsend Scudder1865-1960American politician
- Al McWilliams1916-1993Comics artist
Show all 44 notable burials
- R. Jay Walsh1854-1916American politician in Connecticut
- Samuel Train Dutton1849-1919American teacher and peace activist
- Thomas Hastings1860-1929American architect
- George Lauder1837-1924Scottish industrialist
- Mary Elsie Moore1889-1941American heiress
- Charles D. Rafferty1879-1949American football player and coach
- Elias Cornelius Benedict1834-1920American banker
- Elijah Watt Sells1858-1924American accountant
- Leonard Dyer1873-1955American inventor and patent attorney
- Allen B. Forbes1866-1923American financier
- Benjamin Harrison McKee1887-1958Grandson of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
- Dorothea Charlotte Ensko1920-2014American author
- Edwin Burr Curtiss1852-1928American businessman
- Frank Seymour Hastings1853-1924American business executive, composer, and organist
- William Edwin Hall1878-1961American lawyer
- William John Johnston1853-1907American editor and publisher
- William Tefft Schwarz1887-1967American painter and illustrator
- Earl D. Babst1870-1967American lawyer and industrialist
- Franklin Edson III1907-1936American zoological collector
- Frederick Hart Benedict1860-1901Millionaire
- Gerrit Smith1859-1912American organist and composer
- Helen Ripley Benedict1865-1936
- James Smith Bush1901-1978American military officer
- Martin Phillips Wohlforth1953-2001Victim of the September 11th attacks
- Richard Carroll1898-1959Richard Augustine Carroll (October 27, 1898, March 11, 1959), American editor
- Rowena Bayliss Lee1885-1968Socialite
- Sarabel Sanna Scraper1917-2000Wife of Victor Børge
- Sarah Elizabeth Love Appleget1904-1988USA art collector
- Sidney Lanier1870-19181870-1918
- Theodore Liard1918-2002American geographer
- Thomas Baird Appleget1893-1982USA university administrator
- William Moore Robbins1901-1975American businessman (1901-1975); vice president of General Foods
People whose Wikidata entry gives Putnam 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 Putnam 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
- Putnam CemeteryCos Cob, CTCemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryCos Cob, CTChristian cemetery0.4 mi
- Howe CemeteryGlenville, CTCemetery1.6 mi
- Hitchcock Family Burying GroundCos Cob, CTCemetery1.7 mi
- Close CemeteryGlenville, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- Union CemeteryGreenwich, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- Strickland Road Park Indian CemeteryCos Cob, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- Brown CemeteryGlenville, CTCemetery2.1 mi
- Green CemeteryGlenville, CTCemetery2.1 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryGlenville, CTJewish cemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Putnam Cemetery
- Fred D. Knapp and Son Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Greenwich · (203) 869-0315
- Leo P. Gallagher & Son Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Greenwich · (203) 869-1513
- Coxe & Graziano Funeral Home2.8 miFuneral home · Greenwich · (203) 869-5968
- Fred D Knapp Funeral Home2.8 miFuneral home · Greenwich · (203) 869-0315
- Castiglione Funeral Home2.8 miFuneral home · Greenwich · (203) 869-0894
- DMC Caring Cremation2.8 miCremation provider · Greenwich · (203) 869-8509
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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