About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a cemetery near Cambridge City, Wayne County, Indiana. It lies about 0.7 mi southwest of Cambridge City. The grounds sit at about 955 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 7 notable people buried here, including Solomon Meredith, James Rariden and Hannah Borger Overbeck. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 442087. The nearest other listed cemetery is Capitol Hill Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Marshall and Erlewein Funeral Home in Dublin, about 2.2 mi away. It is one of 51 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cambridge City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 US representative, 1 writer.
- Solomon Meredith1810-1875Union United States Army general
- James Rariden1795-1856American politician
- Hannah Borger Overbeck1870-1931American ceramist
- Margaret Overbeck1863-1911American ceramist
- Virginia Claypool Meredith1848-1936American farmer, livestock breeder, writer, lecturer and clubwoman
- Lola Turner1891-1975Indiana author ca. 1891-1975
- Pauline Montgomery1903-1982Latin And English Teacher And Indiana Historian
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
39.82144, -85.16524
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
- Capitol Hill CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery0.9 mi
- Beard CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery1.4 mi
- East CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery1.9 mi
- South Lawn CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery2.4 mi
- Milton CemeteryCambridge City, INChristian cemetery2.5 mi
- Milford Friends CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery2.6 mi
- Friends CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery2.7 mi
- South Side CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery2.8 mi
- Franklin CemeteryCambridge City, INCemetery4.2 mi
- Locust Grove CemeteryHagerstown, INQuaker cemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- Marshall and Erlewein Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Dublin · (765) 478-5161
- Doddridge Chapel7.8 miFuneral home · Connersville
- Mills Funeral Home9.2 miFuneral home · Centerville · (765) 855-5342
- Eastern Indiana Crematory10 miCremation provider · Lewisville · (765) 478-3894
- Memorials12 miMonument dealer · New Castle · (765) 624-6125
- Urban-Winkler Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Connersville · (765) 825-1761
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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