About Walnut Grove Cemetery
Walnut Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut. It lies about 1.5 mi north of Meriden. The grounds sit at about 180 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 12 notable people buried here, including Abiram Chamberlain, Joseph Pierce and Henry Francis Bryan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 211783. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Laurents Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Flatow Funeral Home in Meriden, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 163 cemeteries we list in New Haven County, and 83 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New Haven County dates to 1793. 1 of the 163 listings in New Haven County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Meriden. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Walnut Grove Cemetery
Among them: 1 basketball player, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 journalist, 1 Spanish-American War veteran, 1 World War I veteran.
- Abiram Chamberlain1837-1911American politician
- Joseph Pierce1842-1916American soldier of Chinese origin
- Henry Francis Bryan1865-1944Governor of American Samoa
- Roy C. Wilcox1891-1975American politician
- Kate Foote Coe1840-1923American educator, journalist, and traveler from Connecticut
- Willard Hyatt1883-1967American basketball player
- Joel Stone Ives1847-1924American pastor
- John Leander Billard1842-1924American businessman
- Abby Bradley Hubbard1833-1853
- Walter Hubbard1828-1911Millionaire
- William Lambert Bradley1826-1894Millionaire founder of Bradley Fertilizer Company
- William Wallace Lee1828-1903
People whose Wikidata entry gives Walnut Grove 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 Walnut Grove 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
- Saint Laurents CemeteryMeriden, CTChristian cemetery0.5 mi
- Sacred Heart CemeteryMeriden, CTChristian cemetery0.5 mi
- West CemeteryMeriden, CTCemetery1.2 mi
- Saint Stanislaus CemeteryMeriden, CTChristian cemetery1.5 mi
- Broad Street CemeteryMeriden, CTCemetery1.5 mi
- Meeting House CemeteryMeriden, CTChurch cemetery1.6 mi
- East CemeteryMeriden, CTCemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Patricks CemeteryMeriden, CTChristian cemetery2.1 mi
- Meriden Hebrew CemeteryMeriden, CTJewish cemetery2.1 mi
- Gethsemane CemeteryMeriden, CTCemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Walnut Grove Cemetery
- Mathieu Memorials0.2 miMonument dealer · Meriden · (203) 440-9790
- Flatow Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Meriden
- Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service1.4 miFuneral home · Meriden · (203) 235-4152
- Smith-Ruzzo Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Meriden · (203) 235-9181
- Stempien Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Meriden
- John J. Ferry & Sons Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Meriden · (203) 235-3338
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