About Cedar Hill Cemetery
Cedar Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut. It lies about 2.1 mi southwest of Newington. It is operated by Cedar Hill Cemetery Association. It carries a heritage listing (NRHP 97000333). The grounds sit at about 213 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 172 notable people buried here, including Katharine Hepburn, J. P. Morgan and Samuel Colt. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 206078. The nearest other listed cemetery is Emanuel Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dillon-Baxter Funeral Home in Wethersfield, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 201 cemeteries we list in Hartford County, and 105 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hartford County dates to 1640. 6 of the 201 listings in Hartford County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Newington. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery
Among them: 20 writers, 11 US representatives, 10 business leaders, 9 governors, 8 artists, 8 inventors and engineers, 6 actors, 5 Civil War veterans.
- Katharine Hepburn1907-2003American actress
- J. P. Morgan1837-1913American financier, banker, and art collector
- Samuel Colt1814-186219th-century American industrialist and inventor
- Wallace Stevens1879-1955American poet
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet1787-1851American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf
- Gideon Welles1802-1878American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869
- Horace Wells1815-1848American dentist and anaesthesia pioneer
- William James Glackens1870-1938Painter from the United States
- Charles Dudley Warner1829-1900American writer
- Edwin D. Morgan1811-1883Union Army general and politician
- John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.1867-1943American banker
- Morgan Bulkeley1837-1922American politician
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- Fern Andra1893-1974American actress
- Isaac Toucey1792-1869American politician
- Anne Morgan1873-1952American philanthropist
- Joseph Roswell Hawley1826-1905Union Army general, politician
- Junius Spencer Morgan1813-1890American banker and financier
- Henry Barnard1811-1900American educationalist
- Doris Rankin1887-1947American actress
- James Dixon1814-1873United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut
- Marshall Jewell1825-1883American politician
- Yung Wing1828-1912Chinese-American diplomat and businessman
- Amos Whitney1832-1920American businessman
- Edward Miner Gallaudet1837-1917First president of Gallaudet University
- Francis A. Pratt1827-1902American businessman
- Isabella Beecher Hooker1822-1907American suffragist
- Robert Ames1889-1931American actor
- Thomas H. Seymour1807-1868American politician
- Everett J. Lake1871-1948Governor of Connecticut
- John Moran Bailey1904-1975American politician
- Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn1878-1951American suffragist
- Edward Sims Van Zile1863-1931American writer
- Emily Parmely Collins1814-1909American suffragist, activist, writer
- John R. Buck1835-1917American politician
- Peter Davis Oakley1861-1920American politician
- Richard D. Hubbard1818-1884American politician
- Allen Butler Talcott1867-1908American painter
- Annie Warburton Goodrich1866-1954American nurse
- Charles Chapman1799-1869American politician
- Charles S. Hastings1848-1932American physicist
- Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt1810-1889American physician
- Ernest Cady1842-1908American politician
- George G. Sumner1841-1906American politician
- Henry G. Sell1884-1968American film actor
- Henry Roberts1853-1929American politician (1853-1929); Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907
- James Laurie1811-1875American engineer
- Lucy Talcott1899-1970American archaeologist
- Nicholas D. Coleman1800-1874U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- Charles Dillingham1868-1934American theatre producer
- Charles E. Billings1834-1920American inventor
- Charles Keeney Hamilton1885-1914American aviator
- Charles R. Chapman1827-1897American politician in Connecticut
- David Gallup1808-18831808-1882 American politician (59th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate)
- Edson Fessenden Gallaudet1871-1945American aerospace engineer
- Elizabeth Jarvis Colt1826-1905Widow and heir of firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt
- Julius Catlin1798-1888American politician
- Julius L. Strong1828-1872American congressman for Connecticut
- Lucius A. Barbour1846-1922American military personnel
- Melancthon Williams Jacobus Jr.1855-1937United States theologian
- Minnie S. Davis1835-1927American writer, lecturer, editor, mental scientist
- Robert O. Tyler1831-1874Union army general
- Samuel O. Prentice1850-1924American judge
- Benjamin Wistar Morris1870-1944American architect
- Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley1804-1872American insurance company founder
- Jane Norton Grew1868-1925American socialite, art collector, and dilettante horticulturalist
- John Hooker1816-1901American lawyer, judge, abolitionist, and reformer for women's rights
- Joseph Hopkins Twichell1838-1918American writer and pastor
- Loren P. Waldo1802-1881American politician
- Nathaniel Shipman1828-1906American judge and legislator
- William Closson1848-1926American artist
- Abner Jackson1811-1874American minister
- Anna Adelia Angell1844-1906American physician
- Arthur Leslie Wheeler1871-1932American classical philologist
- Edward Gallaudet1808-1847American engraver
- Edwin D. Morgan1921-2001American businessman
- Euphemia Wilson Pitblado1849-1928Scottish-born American activist, social reformer
- Francis M. Bunce1836-1901American admiral
- Harry Gray1919-2009American businessman
- Herbert Spencer Davis1875-1958U.S. zoologist
- Jacob Weidenmann1829-1893American landscape architect
- James Goodwin Batterson1823-1901American designer and builder
- James Talcott1835-1916American businessman
- John Butler Talcott1824-1905American industrialist
- John James McCook1843-1927American lawyer, professor and theologian
- John Moses Morris1837-1873American minister, newspaper editor and author
- Joseph Cooke Jackson1835-1913
- Junius Spencer Morgan III1892-1960American banker
- Katharine Seymour Day1870-1964American preservationist
- Marion Grant1918-1986American historian, writer and activist
- Mary E. Van Lennep1821-1844American missionary, school founder, memoirist
- Richard Burton1861-1940American poet, editor, and educator
- Thomas Church Brownell1779-1865American bishop
- Virginia Thrall Smith1836-1903American children's advocate
- William C. Brocklesby1847-1910American architect
- William Leonard Gage1832-1889American translator
- Addington Venables1827-187619th century Anglican colonial bishop
- Albert Morey Sturtevant1876-1957American philologist
- Annie Lorenz1879-1927American botanist
- Arthur Gordner Leacock1868-1947American classical philologist
- Arthur Perkins1864-1932American judge
- Arthur R. Thompson1872-1960American real estate agent, insurance agent and tax collector
- Austin Cornelius Dunham1833-1918American businessman and philanthropist
- Charles Dexter Allen1865-1926American author
- Charles Edward Prior1856-1927American musician and banker
- Charles W. Page1845-1932American psychiatrist
- Clarence Julian Owen1877-1941Managing director of Southern Commercial Congress
- Edward Williams Hooker1865-1915American politician
- Edwin Knox Mitchell1853-1934American theologian and educator
- Frances Tracy Morgan1842-1924Wife of J. P. Morgan
- Harry A. Smith1869-1928American insurance executive, college football player and coach
- Hazel Lavina Roberts1883-196620th-century American artist, painter and illustrator
- Henry Putnam Stearns1828-1905American physician
- J. A. Spalding1833-1904American newspaper editor and publisher
- James Junius Goodwin1835-1915American merchant
- Joel Hawes1789-1867American Congregational minister
- Junius Spencer Morgan II1867-1932(1867-1932), art collector and nephew of J. P. Morgan Sr.
- Louisa Fisher Hawes1791-1867American writer
- Louise Converse1895-1974
- Mary Mather Hooker1864-1939
- Newton C. Brainard1880-1964American banker and historian
- Philip Hewins1806-1849American artist, 1808-1849
- Richard Jarvis1829-1903American industrialist
- Thomas Davison Crothers1842-1918American physician
- Wilbur Macey Stone1862-1941Book collector, graphic designer, and art historian
- Wilder Smith1835-1891American minister and author
- William Bacon Bailey1873-1952American political scientist
- William Watson Andrews1810-1897American clergyman/Catholic Apostolic Church
- A. H. Olmsted1842-1929American banker
- Amasa Tomson Sturtevant1807-1892Husband of Betsey Robbins
- Andrew Coppola1941-1990
- Arthur Irving Jacobs1858-1918American inventor and manufacturer who developed the modern keyed drill chuck
- Blanche Valentine Mitchell1891-1933(1891-1933) American professor of Italian
- Caroline Cleveland Smith1829-1866
- Charles Edward Prior Jr.1875-1941American banker
- 1874-1916
- Cornelia Sage1901-1968
- Edwin Denison Morgan1890-1954
- Edwin Denison Morgan1834-18791834-1879
- Edwin Pond Parker1836-19201836 - 1920
- Elizabeth Estella Parmeledied 1932American botanical collector
- Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon1820-18711820-1871, friend of Mary Todd Lincoln
- Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet1897-19341897
- Fanny Taylor Baldwin1898-1977
- George Whitefield Avery1836-1893American physician
- Griffin Alexander Stedman1810-18831810-1883
- Harriet Elizabeth Barnes1849-1899
- Hattie Day Barbour1860-193218 Jul 1860 - certain 26 Feb 1932
- Henry Sage Goodwin1904-2002American painter
- Joab Hubbard1777-1855
- Juliet Pierpont1816-1884
- Juliet Pierpont Morgan1847-1923
- Junius Spencer Morgan Jr.1846-1858
- Lucius Barbour1805-1873American businessman
- Lucius Tuttle1846-1914American railroad executive
- Marion Cockrell1875-1973American socialite
- Mary Brewer Penniman1857-1886
- Mary Louisa Yung1851-1886
- Morgan Bulkeley Brainard Jr.1906-1960American insurance executive
- Mrs Alphonse Bel1850-1929American entomologist and scientific collector
- Oliver Ellsworth1820-1878
- Richard Storrs Barnes1854-1913American businessman
- Roderick Terry1788-1849
- Roland Mather1809-1897Millionaire; 31 May 1809 Westfield, MA - 10 May 1897 Hartford, CT
- Roland Mather Hooker1900-1961American writer
- Russel F. Barkerdied 1961Architect from West Hartford, Connecticut
- Russell J. Young1883-1916American journalist
- Sarah Jane Hillyer1811-1896
- Sarah Spencer Morgan1839-18961839-1896
- Walter Arnold1874-1937Architect and grand master of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut Freemasons
- William DeLoss Love1851-1918American clergyman
- Wolcott Webster Ellsworth1867-1949American clergyman
People whose Wikidata entry gives Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill 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
- Emanuel CemeteryNewington, CTJewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Kol Haverim CemeteryNewington, CTJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- Teferes Israel CemeteryHillcrest Avenue, West Hartford, CTJewish cemetery1.0 mi
- Beth Jacob CemeteryNewington, CTJewish cemetery1.1 mi
- Old South Cemetery400 Maple Avenue, Hartford, CTMunicipal cemetery2.0 mi
- Old Prison CemeteryWethersfield, CTCemetery2.0 mi
- Newington Center CemeteryNewington, CTCemetery2.2 mi
- Zion Hill CemeteryHartford, CTCemetery2.2 mi
- West Meadow CemeteryNewington, CTCemetery2.5 mi
- Village CemeteryWethersfield, CTMunicipal cemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Cedar Hill Cemetery
- Dillon-Baxter Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Wethersfield · (860) 956-1149
- D'Esopo Funeral Chapel1.0 miFuneral chapel · Wethersfield · (860) 563-6117
- Sheehan Hilborn Breen Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · West Hartford · (860) 561-3800
- Connecticut Funeral Directors1.8 miFuneral home · Wethersfield · (860) 721-0234
- Hartford Community Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Hartford · (860) 246-0700
- All State Cremation & Funeral Care2.0 miCremation provider · Hartford · (203) 287-8000
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