About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a cemetery near Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. It lies about 0.8 mi southeast of Macon. The grounds sit at about 417 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including Emory Speer, Young Stribling and Chauncey Vibbard. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 321644. The nearest other listed cemetery is Oak Ridge Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Hart's Mortuary and Cremation Center in Macon, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Bibb County, and 153 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Macon. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 1 football player, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 baseball player, 1 basketball player, 1 boxer, 1 business leader.
- Emory Speer1848-1918American politician, soldier and lawyer
- Young Stribling1904-1933American boxer
- Chauncey Vibbard1811-1891American politician and railroad executive
- David Poythress1943-2017American politician
- George Stallings1867-1929American Major League Baseball player, manager
- Hazel Jane Raines1916-1956American pioneer aviator and flight instructor
- Bobby Hooks1907-1969American-football player
- William H. Fish1849-1926Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
- George Harmon1902-1954American basketball player
- Archibald J. Battle1826-1907American educator
- Bob Young1907-1974American athletics competitor
- Tochie MacDonell1861-1928Friend and biographer of Belle Harris Bennett
Show all 13 notable burials
- Valeria McCullough Murphey1926-1990American philanthropist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverside 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
32.85098, -83.63860
What Riverside 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
- Oak Ridge CemeteryMacon, GACemetery0.2 mi
- Riverside Cemetery: North Gate SectionMacon, GACemetery0.3 mi
- Linwood CemeteryMacon, GACemetery0.4 mi
- Rose Hill CemeteryMacon, GACemetery0.4 mi
- Winship Place CemeteryMacon, GACemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Memorial GardenMacon, GAMemorial park1.0 mi
- Christ Episcopal Church Memorial GardenMacon, GAMemorial park1.1 mi
- Roff Home CemeteryMacon, GACemetery1.5 mi
- Old City CemeteryMacon, GAMunicipal cemetery1.6 mi
- Fort Hill CemeteryMacon, GACemetery1.8 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- Hart's Mortuary and Cremation Center1.0 miCremation provider · Macon · (478) 746-4321
- Simply Cremation of Middle Georgia1.0 miCremation provider · Macon · (478) 285-8999
- Snow's Funerals & Cremations1.0 miFuneral home · Macon
- Snow's Memorial Chapel1.0 miFuneral chapel · Macon · (478) 743-7417
- Hutchings Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Macon · (478) 743-1212
- Central Georgia Crematory2.0 miCremation provider · Macon · (478) 254-2081
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