About Roselawn Cemetery
Roselawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois. It lies about 1.3 mi northwest of Champaign. The grounds sit at about 748 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 16 notable people buried here, including Florian Znaniecki, Bill Mulliken and David Kinley. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 416960. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Hope Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mittendorf Calvert Funeral Home in Champaign, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 74 cemeteries we list in Champaign County, and 23 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Champaign. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Roselawn Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 musician, 1 scientist.
- Florian Znaniecki1882-1958Polish sociologist
- Bill Mulliken1939-2014American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist
- David Kinley1861-1944American economist
- Robert Zuppke1879-1957American football coach
- William Abbott Oldfather1880-1945American classical philologist
- Lee Eilbracht1924-2013American baseball player
- Ray Eliot1905-1980American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
- Justa Lindgren1878-1951American football player and coach
- Mark Hubert Hindsley1905-1999American band director, music educator, author, and composer
- Joe Mitchell Chapple1867-1950American editor and publisher
- Kuo-Tsai Chen1923-1987Chinese-American mathematician
- Bertha R. Wolf1864-1929August Wolf's daughter
Show all 16 notable burials
- Clarence Marvin Wayman1930-2007American metallurgist
- Felice H. Davidson1922-2013Ph.D. University of Michigan 1950
- Fred B. Seely1884-1968American mechanical engineer, 1884-1968
- Theodore Henry Frison, Junior1924-1993Person
People whose Wikidata entry gives Roselawn 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
40.09931, -88.23214
What Roselawn 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
- Mount Hope CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery0.3 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryChampaign, ILCemetery0.8 mi
- Lincoln Memorial GardensUrbana, ILMemorial park2.2 mi
- Eastlawn CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery2.2 mi
- East Lawn CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery2.2 mi
- Harvey CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery2.3 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery2.4 mi
- Prairieview CemeterySavoy, ILCemetery4.5 mi
- Clements CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery4.8 mi
- Mount Olive CemeteryUrbana, ILCemetery5.9 mi
Funeral homes near Roselawn Cemetery
- Mittendorf Calvert Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Champaign · (217) 352-4004
- Owens Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Champaign · (217) 352-4231
- Heath & Vaughn Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Champaign · (217) 239-1212
- Sunset Funeral Home & Cremation Center1.7 miFuneral home · Champaign · (217) 239-2874
- Leek and Sons Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Urbana · (217) 337-5335
- Williams Memorial Services2.0 miFuneral home · Champaign · (217) 351-8115
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