Woodlawn Cemetery in Urbana, Illinois

Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. It lies about 1.5 mi south of Urbana. The grounds sit at about 728 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 12 notable people buried here, including Michael S. Hart, Thomas Jonathan Burrill and Samuel T. Busey. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 421451. The nearest other listed cemetery is Lincoln Memorial Gardens, about 0.3 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Leek and Sons Funeral Home in Urbana, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 74 cemeteries we list in Champaign County, and 24 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.

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

Among them: 3 scientists, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 US representative, 1 writer.

• Michael S. Hart1947-2011
  American author, founder of Project Gutenberg
• Thomas Jonathan Burrill1839-1916
  American botanist and plant pathologist
• Samuel T. Busey1835-1909
  American politician and Union Army general from Illinois
• Alexander Turyn1900-1981
  Polish-American classical philologist
• Wallace Nelson Stearns1866-1934
  American academic
• Ellery Burton Paine1875-1976
  American electrical engineer and university professor
• Bettye Krolick1926-2011
  American musician and advocate for the blind
• Charles Bowen Busey1887-1918
• Henry William Wyld1928-2013
  Physicist
• Joseph Cullen Blair1871-1940
  Horticulturalist
• Mary Elizabeth Bowen1854-1930
• Max Beberman1925-1971
  American mathematics educator

People whose Wikidata entry gives Woodlawn 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.

• Lincoln Memorial Gardens

  Urbana, IL
  Memorial park

  0.3 mi
• Eastlawn Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• East Lawn Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Harvey Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  1.1 mi
• Mount Hope Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Roselawn Cemetery

  Champaign, IL
  Cemetery

  2.4 mi
• Clements Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  2.9 mi
• Saint Marys Cemetery

  Champaign, IL
  Cemetery

  3.1 mi
• Yearsley Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  4.0 mi
• Mount Olive Cemetery

  Urbana, IL
  Cemetery

  5.0 mi

• Leek and Sons Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Urbana · (217) 337-5335
  0.7 mi
• Williams Memorial Services

  Funeral home · Champaign · (217) 351-8115
  1.3 mi
• Sunset Funeral Home & Cremation Center

  Funeral home · Champaign · (217) 239-2874
  1.6 mi
• Heath & Vaughn Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Champaign · (217) 239-1212
  2.1 mi
• Owens Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Champaign · (217) 352-4231
  2.2 mi
• Mittendorf Calvert Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Champaign · (217) 352-4004
  2.2 mi

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