Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Illinois

Bluff City Cemetery is a municipal cemetery near Elgin, Cook County, Illinois. It lies about 1.9 mi northwest of Elgin. The grounds sit at about 745 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 15 notable people buried here, including Blanche Fisher Wright, Adaline Hohf Beery and Earl Britton. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 404617. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Hope Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Laird Funeral Home in Elgin, about 1.6 mi away. It is one of 187 cemeteries we list in Cook County, and 40 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cook County dates to 1834. 23 of the 187 listings in Cook County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Elgin. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 2 business leaders, 1 football player, 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 basketball player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 Medal of Honor recipient.

• Blanche Fisher Wright1887-1971
  Children's books illustrator
• Adaline Hohf Beery1859-1929
  American author, newspaper editor, songbook compiler, hymnwriter
• Earl Britton1903-1973
  American football player
• Andrew O. Apple1845-1890
  United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
• Angelo Carpenter1827-1880
  American politician
• Mark Wentworth Dunham1842-1899
  American horse breeder
• Allen Britton1914-2003
  American music educator
• Erwin Renfer1891-1957
  American baseball player
• Daniel de Marbelle1818-1903
  Spanish-American musician
• Don Walsh1916-1991
  Basketball player
• George Henry Daniels1841-1908
  American publicist
• Lysander Butler Hamlin1839-1910

People whose Wikidata entry gives Bluff City 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.

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.

• Mount Hope Cemetery

  1001 Villa Street, Elgin, IL
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Lakewood Memorial Park

  30W730 US Route 20, Elgin, IL
  Memorial park

  1.7 mi
• Hillside Cemetery

  Elgin, IL
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Elgin State Hospital Cemetery

  Elgin, IL
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Little Woods Cemetery

  South Elgin, IL
  Cemetery

  3.0 mi
• Bartlett Cemetery

  Bartlett, IL
  Cemetery

  3.5 mi
• River Valley Memorial Gardens

  West Dundee, IL
  Memorial park

  4.4 mi
• Dundee Township Cemetery East

  East Dundee, IL
  Municipal cemetery

  5.4 mi
• Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery

  Streamwood, IL
  Lutheran cemetery

  5.6 mi
• Ontarioville Cemetery

  Hanover Park, IL
  Cemetery

  5.8 mi

• Laird Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Elgin · (847) 741-8800
  1.6 mi
• O'Connor-Leetz Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Elgin · (847) 741-1400
  1.9 mi
• Wait-Ross-Allanson Funeral Services

  Funeral home · Elgin · (847) 742-2100
  2.0 mi
• Symonds-Madison Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Elgin · (847) 741-1128
  2.0 mi
• Countryside Funeral Home

  Funeral home · South Elgin · (847) 289-8054
  2.4 mi
• Cardinal Funeral & Cremation Services, Ltd.

  Cremation provider · Elgin · (773) 558-7175
  3.9 mi

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