About Palisado Cemetery
Palisado Cemetery is a cemetery near Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. The grounds sit at about 43 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 14 notable people buried here, including Oliver Ellsworth, Roger Wolcott and John O'Brien. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 209594. The nearest other listed cemetery is Riverside Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Carmon Community Funeral Homes in Windsor, about 2.2 mi away. It is one of 201 cemeteries we list in Hartford County, and 83 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, Windsor. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Palisado Cemetery
Among them: 1 basketball player, 1 scientist, 1 Supreme Court justice, 1 US senator.
- Oliver Ellsworth1745-1807Chief justice of the United States from 1796 to 1800
- Roger Wolcott1679-1767Colonial governor of Connecticut
- John O'Brien1916-1994American basketball player
- Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth1755-1818American wife of politician, 1755-1818
- Grace Lucretia Clapp1881-1965American botanist, botanical collector and historian
- Henry Wolcottdied 1655Dec 1578 (Lidyard St.Lawrence, Somerset) - 30 May 1655 Windsor, Connecticut
- John Warham1595-1670
- Josiah Barberdied 1792American soldier (died 1792)
- Martin Ellsworth1783-1857American military officer
- Mary Cook1612-1645
- Oliver Ellsworth1781-18051781-1805
- Roger Newberry1706-1741
Show all 14 notable burials
- Timothy Mather1628-1684(1628 - 14 Jan 1684)
- Timothy Phelps1639-1719
People whose Wikidata entry gives Palisado 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
41.85898, -72.63814
What Palisado 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
- Riverside CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery0.4 mi
- Windsor Veterans Memorial CemeteryWindsor, CTVeterans cemetery0.5 mi
- Tikvoh Chodoshoh CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery0.5 mi
- East Windsor Hill CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery1.6 mi
- Edwards CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery1.6 mi
- Center CemeterySouth Windsor, CTCemetery2.2 mi
- Town Street Cemetery147 South Main Street, East Windsor, CTCemetery2.7 mi
- Ye Olde Poquonock Burial GroundsWindsor, CTCemetery2.8 mi
- Elm Grove CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery2.9 mi
- Rye Street CemeteryWindsor, CTCemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Palisado Cemetery
- Carmon Community Funeral Homes2.2 miFuneral home · Windsor · (860) 688-2200
- Cremation Society Of Connecticut2.3 miCremation provider · Windsor · (888) 909-2728
- Carmon Funeral Home3.8 miFuneral home · Windsor Locks
- Carmon Poquonock Funeral Home3.9 miFuneral home · Windsor · (888) 688-8475
- All Faith Memorial Chapel4.1 miFuneral chapel · South Windsor · (860) 757-3335
- S.L. Zocco Memorials Inc4.5 miMonument dealer · Bloomfield · (860) 242-7371
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