About Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery near New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. It lies about 1.0 mi east of New Haven. The grounds sit at about 30 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 90 notable people buried here, including Bronisław Malinowski, Teresa Wright and Irving Fisher. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 206979. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mapledale Cemetery (historical), about 0.2 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Robert E Shure Funeral Home in New Haven, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 163 cemeteries we list in New Haven County, and 81 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, New Haven. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Evergreen Cemetery
Among them: 12 scientists, 7 writers, 6 artists, 6 physicians, 5 business leaders, 4 inventors and engineers, 3 football players, 3 US representatives.
- Bronisław Malinowski1884-1942Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA
- Teresa Wright1918-2005American actress
- Irving Fisher1867-1947American economist and statistician
- Ernest William Brown1866-1938English-American astronomer and mathematician
- Oliver Winchester1810-1880American businessman and politician
- Robert Yerkes1876-1956American psychologist
- William Chester Minor1834-1920American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
- Addison Emery Verrill1839-1926U.S. zoologist
- Russell Henry Chittenden1856-1943American chemist
- Sidney Irving Smith1843-1926American zoologist
- Ernest Flagg1857-1947American architect
- Edward Bouchet1852-1918American physicist
Show all 90 notable burials
- Edward Washburn Hopkins1857-1932American historian and orientalist
- William Wirt Winchester1837-1881American businessman
- Wilbur Lucius Cross1862-1948American politician and scholar
- William Anthony Granville1863-1943American mathematician
- Theophil Mitchell Prudden1849-1924American science writer
- Thomas Burr Osborne1798-1869American politician
- David Abrahamsen1903-2002Forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author
- David Stanley Smith1877-1949American composer
- Hobart B. Bigelow1834-1891American politician
- Nehemiah D. Sperry1827-1911American politician
- Oscar Harger1843-1887American zoologist
- William Mason1837-1913American gunsmith
- William Petit Trowbridge1828-1892American general, mechanical engineer, and naturalist
- Chauncey B. Brewster1848-1941American bishop
- Chester Ittner Bliss1899-1979American statistician
- Dennis A. Blakeslee1856-1933American politician
- Helen Eugenia Hagan1891-1964American composer
- Jared Bradley Flagg1820-1899American artist
- Augusto Rodríguez1841-1880United States Army Lieutenant
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell1844-1890American politician
- Henry Augustin Beers1847-1926American writer and academic
- Robert J. H. Kiphuth1890-1967American swimming coach, college athletics administrator
- Sarah Lee Brown Fleming1876-1963American teacher and writer
- Ted Coy1888-1935American football player and coach
- A. B. Jackson1925-1981American artist
- Allen Tucker1838-1903Medal of Honor recipient
- Edwin S. Greeley1832-1920American industrialist, soldier, & philanthropist
- Edwin Stevens Lines1845-1927American bishop
- Gardner Dow1898-1919American college football player
- George Barker Stevens1854-1906American minister
- John A. Hall1877-1919American football player and coach
- Lucy Creemer Peckham1842-1923American physician; poet
- Stiles French1801-1881American teacher
- Thomas Dwight Goodell1854-1920American classical philologist
- William H. Allen1858-1936American architect
- Ada Watterson Yerkes1873-1963American botanist
- Carle John Blenner1864-1952American painter
- Charles Atwater1815-1891American politician
- Edward Sackett Hume1848-1908American missionary and educator
- Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard1844-1923American banker
- Frank Howe Bradley1838-1879American geologist
- Frank J. Rice1869-1917American mayor (1869~1917)
- Frederick E. Beach1863-1933US teacher and author
- Gerard Hallock1800-1866American newspaper editor and businessman
- Homer Sprague1829-1918American military officer, author, and educator
- Joel Wilbur Hyde1839-1907American obstetrician
- Milton Charles Winternitz1885-1959American physician
- Powhatan Roberts Robinson1866-1939American businessman
- Thomas Wells Farnam1877-1943American banker and Red Cross official 1877-1943
- William Mason Grosvenor1835-1900American journalist and author
- Allen Ross Diefendorf1871-1943American physician
- Alonzo G. Shears1811-1888Founder and rector of the Suburban Home School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1811-1888
- Carlos F. Stoddard1880-1933
- Edith Bristol Stone1875-1913Artist
- Edward F. Goin1873-1948American pastor
- Edward H. Goin1903-1966American educator and civic leader
- Elizabeth B. Kubler1912-2009Arts advocate and spouse of art historian George A. Kubler
- Elizabeth Maude Jerome1864-1939
- Erroll Meredith Augur1874-1927
- Esther Ann Stoddard1874-1951
- Florence de Karajan Sargent1848-1938
- Frank Wilson Nye1887-1963American author
- Frederick N. Sperry1872-1950American physician
- George Pratt Starkweather1872-1901American mathematician
- Grace Bontecou1805-1896American art collector
- Gustav Gruener1863-1928American Germanist
- Guy Stevens Callender1865-1915American economist and historian
- Hannah Jane Winchester Bennett1847-1920
- Henry Fowler English1851-1947Millionaire heir
- Henry Hollister Robinson1873-1925American geologist
- Horace Thomas Burgess1881-1939Ph.D. Yale University 1909
- Jennie Gilbert Jerome1888-1979
- Margaret Elizabeth Bonnell1882-1978Wife of American architect Ernest Flagg
- Marie Crawford Goin1905-19681905-1958
- Randolph Crump Miller1910-2002American theologian
- Stephen Habbe1903-1993American industrial psychologist
- Thomas Stoddard1813-1887(1813-1887) Connecticut
- William A. Christian1905-1997Professor of Religious Studies
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.
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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
- Mapledale Cemetery (historical)New Haven, CTCemetery0.2 mi
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- Center Church CemeteryNew Haven, CTChristian cemetery1.1 mi
- New Haven Crypt CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery1.1 mi
- Grove Street CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery1.2 mi
- Oak Grove CemeteryWest Haven, CTCemetery1.4 mi
- Congregation Mishkan Israel CemeteryNew Haven, CTChurch cemetery1.4 mi
- Westville CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery1.5 mi
Funeral homes near Evergreen Cemetery
- Robert E Shure Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 562-8244
- Curvin K Council Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 865-5100
- Howard K. Hill Funeral Services0.6 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 624-4477
- Celentano Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 865-1234
- Weller Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 624-6912
- McClam Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 786-4732
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