About Crown Hill National Cemetery
Crown Hill National Cemetery is a national cemetery near Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. It lies about 3.6 mi south of Indianapolis. The grounds sit at about 741 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 376 notable people buried here, including Benjamin Harrison, Thomas R. Marshall and Charles W. Fairbanks. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 433211. The nearest other listed cemetery is Grave of President Harrison, about 0.3 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery in Indianapolis, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 97 cemeteries we list in Marion County, and 64 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 97 listings in Marion County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Indianapolis. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Crown Hill National Cemetery
Among them: 98 writers, 26 business leaders, 26 US representatives, 22 artists, 21 baseball players, 16 Civil War veterans, 16 inventors and engineers, 14 governors.
- Benjamin Harrison1833-1901President of the United States, 1889-1893
- Thomas R. Marshall1854-1925Vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
- Charles W. Fairbanks1852-1918American politician; Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909
- Thomas A. Hendricks1819-1885American politician
- John Dillinger1903-1934American bank robber
- Caroline Harrison1832-1892First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
- Richard Jordan Gatling1818-1903American firearm designer
- Booth Tarkington1869-1946American novelist
- Mary Harrison McKee1858-1930Daughter of President Benjamin Harrison
- J. J. Johnson1924-2001American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger
- John Woodruff1915-2007American middle distance runner
- Kin Hubbard1868-1930American cartoonist
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- Eli Lilly1838-1898American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
- James Baskett1904-1948Actor
- James Whitcomb Riley1849-1916American poet from Indianapolis
- Frank McKinney1938-1992American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder, bank executive
- George Amick1924-1959American racing driver
- Paul Russo1914-1976Racecar driver
- Raymond Leppard1927-2019British conductor and harpsichordist
- Oliver P. Morton1823-1877American politician
- Albert J. Beveridge1862-1927American historian and politician
- Jerry Hoyt1929-1955American racing driver
- Julia Carson1938-2007American politician
- William Hayden English1822-1896American politician
- Harry Stewart New1858-1937American politician
- Jim Hurtubise1932-1989Racecar driver
- Mary Dimmick Harrison1858-1948Second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison
- Roger Brown1942-1997American basketball player
- Jimmy Daywalt1924-1966Racecar driver
- John W. Kern1849-1917American politician
- Joseph E. McDonald1819-1891United States Representative and Senator from Indiana
- Lois Irene Kimsey1873-195828th Second Lady of the United States
- May Wright Sewall1844-1920American suffragist
- A. J. Watson1924-2014American racing crew chief
- Bill Shirley1921-1989American actor, singer, Broadway theatre producer
- Caleb Blood Smith1808-1864American judge and politician
- Cornelia Cole Fairbanks1852-1913Second Lady of the United States from 1905 to 1909
- Edward Canby1817-1873Union Army general
- Howdy Wilcox1889-1923American racing driver
- Jefferson C. Davis1828-1879Union general in the American Civil War
- Oliver H. Smith1794-1859American politician
- William S. Taylor1853-1928American politician, Kentucky, born 1853
- David Turpie1828-1909American politician
- Thomas Taggart1856-1929American politician
- William H. H. Miller1840-1917American politician
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- Evelyn Preer1896-1932American actress and singer
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- Ebenezer Dumont1814-1871Union Army General
- Floyd Davis1909-1977American racing driver
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- Grace Julian Clarke1865-1938Suffragist from Indiana
- Jim Jontz1951-2007American politician
- Mari Evans1919-2017American poet
- Noah Noble1794-1844American politician
- Otto Stark1859-1926American artist
- Robert Hanna1786-1858American politician
- Roscoe Turner1895-1970American airplane racer
- Sarah T. Bolton1814-1893American writer
- William E. English1850-1926American politician
- Allen M. Fletcher1853-1922American politician
- Anna Strunsky1877-1964American author and socialist
- Carl G. Fisher1874-1939American entrepreneur
- Eliza Hendricks1823-1903Second Lady of the United States
- Henry F. Schricker1883-1966American politician
- Henry Lane Wilson1857-1932American diplomat
- Howard Garns1905-1989American architect and creator of Sudoku
- Louis Schneider1901-1942American racing driver
- Richard Gruelle1851-1914American artist
- William H. Wallace1811-1879American politician
- Winfield T. Durbin1847-1928American politician
- Alexander Ralston1771-1827Scottish-American architect
- Doxie Moore1911-1986American basketball player and coach
- Etheridge Knight1931-1991African-American poet
- Harry C. Stutz1876-1930Automobile entrepreneur and engineer
- Ira Joy Chase1834-1895American politician
- James A. Allison1872-1928American entrepreneur and businessman
- John Coburn1825-1908Union Army general
- Silas L. Niblack1825-1883American politician
- Tony Bettenhausen Jr.1951-2000American racecar driver
- William J. Brown1805-1857U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Amos Myers1824-1893American politician
- Catharine Merrill1824-1900American Civil War nurse and professor
- Fred Duesenberg1876-1932American automobile designer and manufacturer
- Harry Hartz1896-1974American racing driver
- Jacob Cox1810-1892American artist
- Jacob Piatt Dunn1855-1924American ethnologist, historian, journalist, lawyer, and political reformer
- John C. New1831-1906American politician
- John Charles Duncan1882-1967American astronomer
- John Hanson Farquhar1818-1873American politician
- John M. Wiley1841-1912American politician
- John Tomlinson Brush1845-1912American baseball executive
- Lucien Barbour1811-1880American politician
- Meredith Nicholson1866-1947American politician
- Ralph Hill1827-1899American politician
- Samuel St. George Rogers1832-1880American politician
- Thomas A. Morris1811-1904Union United States Army general
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- William J. Forsyth1854-1935American painter
- Arthur William Sidney Herrington1891-1970American engineer (1891-1970); collected art with his wife Nell Ray Clarke Herrington
- Calvin Fletcher1798-1866American judge
- Carl Graf1890-1947American painter
- Carmen Hill1895-1990American baseball player
- Catherine Eddy Beveridge1881-1970American philanthropist
- Cecil Duane Crabb1890-1953American composer of ragtime music
- Charles E. Cox1860-1936Indiana State Supreme Court judge
- Charlie Merz1888-1952American racing driver
- Doc Newton1877-1931Major League Baseball player
- Edwin A. Gibson1926-2011American architect
- Edwin May1823-1880American architect
- Evans Woollen1864-1942College football coach
- Franklin Landers1825-1901American politician
- Frederick Knefler1833-1901Union army general in the American Civil War
- George Henry Chapman1832-1882Union Army general during the American Civil War
- Harry Hempstead1868-1938American baseball executive
- Hod Eller1894-1961American baseball player
- Isaac Blackford1786-1859Second Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
- James Ellsworth Noland1920-1992United States federal judge
- Janet Payne Bowles1872-1948US-american metal artist
- John Parker Hawkins1830-1914Union Army general
- John Wesley Hardrick1891-1968Painter
- Josiah K. Lilly, Sr.1861-1948American businessman
- Leroy Edgar Burney1906-1998American physician
- Merrill Moores1856-1929American politician
- Ovid Butler1801-1881American politician and newspaper publisher
- Paddy Baumann1885-1969American baseball player
- Reginald H. Sullivan1876-1980American politician
- Robert Sanford Foster1834-1903American general
- Rolla Neil Harger1890-1983American scientist
- Russell Benjamin Harrison1854-1936American businessman, lawyer, diplomat, and politician
- Toad Ramsey1864-1906Major League Baseball player
- Tony Hinkle1899-1992American football, basketball, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
- William English Walling1877-1936American labor leader
- William S. Haymond1823-1885American politician
- Addie C. Strong Engle1845-1926American author, publisher
- Bill Garrett1929-1974American basketball player
- Bob Jenkins1947-2021American sports announcer
- Charles F. Bretzman1867-1934American photographer
- Charles H. Black1850-1918American businessman
- Charlie Carr1875-1932Baseball player and coach
- Clara Lieber1902-1982American chemist
- Clinton L. Hare1864-1909American football coach, lawyer
- Francis Costigan1810-1865American architect
- George Brown1835-1913Officer of the United States Navy who served during the American Civil War
- George Francis McGinnis1826-1910Union Army general
- George L. Knox1841-1927American editor and publisher
- Grace Alexander1872-1951American writer and journalist
- Harold Shaw1906-1941American racing driver
- Harry Weber1862-1926American baseball player
- Howard Carpenter Marmon1876-1943American industrialist and automotive engineer
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- John Morton-Finney1889-1998American activist and lawyer
- John Sowders1866-1939American baseball player
- Joseph Joel Hammond1886-1918New Zealand aviator
- Josiah K. Lilly, Jr.1893-1966Pharmaceutical industrialist
- Robert Henry Tyndall1877-1947United States general
- Samuel D. Maxwell1803-1873American politician
- Sarah Marshall Hayden1825-1899First woman novelist in Illinois
- William Allen Woods1837-1901United States federal judge
- William Fortune1863-1942American businessman, journalist, and civic leader
- William Lowe Bryan1860-1955President of Indiana University
- William Tinsley1804-1885Irish architect
- William W. Chalmers1861-1944U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William Willard1809-1881American deaf educator
- Zerelda G. Wallace1817-1901American activist
- Addison Clay Harris1840-1916American lawyer and politician
- Albert Gall1842-1905American retailer, businessman and the former State Treasurer of Indiana
- Albert T. Morgan1842-1922American politician
- Alfred W. Place1877-1955American football coach
- Amelia R. Keller1871-1943American activist and physician
- Amos William Butler1860-1937American naturalist, prison reformist
- Anna Nicholas1849-1929American writer
- Arthur Bohn1861-1948American architect
- August Duesenberg1879-1955American pioneer automobile manufacturer
- Bill Sowders1864-1951American baseball player
- Bill Whaley1899-1943American baseball player
- Billy Hillenbrand1922-1994American football player
- C. I. Taylor1875-1922American baseball player/manager and executive
- Clemens Vonnegut, Sr.1824-1906American businessman
- David Buel Knickerbacker1833-1894American Episcopal clergyman
- Don Herr1889-1953American racing driver
- Don Mellett1891-1926American newspaper editor
- Drusilla Wilson1815-1908American temperance leader; Quaker preacher
- Edward Black1853-1872American soldier
- Eli Lilly1885-1977American businessman
- Ernest Bicknell1862-1935Early leader of the American Red Cross
- Evelynne Mess Daily1903-2003American painter
- Frank Fox1877-1931American racing driver
- Frederic M. Ayres Sr.1872-1940American businessman
- George Upfold1796-1872American Episcopal bishop
- Georgia Alexander1868-1928American educator, author
- Gilbert Van Camp1814-1900American businessman
- Grace Urbahns1886-1969Politician from Indiana
- Harry Deane1846-1925Major League Baseball player, Manager
- Helene Elise Hermine Knabe1875-1911German-American physician
- Horatio C. Newcomb1821-1882American politician
- Joe Rand Beckett1891-1969Indiana State Senator, Assistant Attorney General of Indiana, WWI army officer, lawyer, philanthropist
- John Cooper Wiley1893-1967American diplomat
- John Grim1867-1961American baseball player
- Kurt Vonnegut, Sr.1884-1957American architect
- Len Sowders1861-1888American baseball player
- Lionel Artis1895-1971American civil servant
- Louis H. Schwitzer1880-1967American engineer and inventor
- Louis Yolando Mazzini1894-1973Peruvian-American doctor
- Luella F. McWhirter1859-1952American philanthropist, club-woman, temperance worker, editor
- Lyman S. Ayres II1908-1996American businessman
- Mary Ellen Graydon Sharpe1823-1914American writer (182_-1914)
- Naomi Gray1922-2006Activist for public health in San Francisco and the first black female Vice President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Orpheus Everts1826-1903American physician
- Oscar Osburn Winther1903-1970American historian
- Paul Hadley1880-1971American artist (1880-1971); designer of the flag of Indiana
- Philip L. Boyd1900-1989Mayor
- Phillis Wheatley Waters1898-1973American educator and basketball player
- Quincy Alden Myers1853-1921American judge
- Ralph Tipton Davis1880-1934American football player
- Robert Irsay1923-1997American football team owner
- Samuel A. Elbert1832-1902American politician
- Stacey Toran1961-1989Player of American football
- Sumner Alexander Furniss1874-1953American physician and surgeon (1874-1953), the first African American on the staff at Indianapolis City Hospital
- Thomas L. Sullivan1846-1936American politician
- Todd Allen1885-1971American baseball player
- Walter C. Boetcher1881-1951American politician
- American labor leader
- Willie McGill1873-1944Major League Baseball pitcher in the late 19th century, college baseball coach
- Abram W. Hendricks1822-1887American attorney and politician from Indiana
- Adolph G. Metzner1834-1918German-American pharmacist, military officer, and artist
- Aquilla Jones1811-1891Indiana businessman and politician
- Arthur C. Newby1865-1933American businessman and auto racing pioneer
- Caleb Scudder1795-1866American politician
- Catherine A. Streeter1874-1950American insurance broker; bridge teacher
- Catherine McLaen Brown New1870-1953Spouse of Harry Stewart New
- Charles W. Brouse1839-1904Medal of Honor recipient
- Christopher T. Gonzalez1963-1994Activist
- Chuck DeVoe1930-2013Basketball player
- Daniel W. Marmon1844-1909American businessman
- Daniel Wait Howe1839-1921American lawyer and author
- Dave Allerdice1887-1941American football player and coach
- Diedrich A. Bohlen1827-1890American architect
- Eugene S. Pulliam1914-1999American newspaper publisher
- Felix Tony McWhirter1853-1915American banker
- Garfield Thomas Haywood1880-1931American bishop, cartoonist, and songwriter
- George Joseph Mess1898-1962American painter
- George L. Knox II1916-1964American fighter pilot
- George W. Stubbs1837-1911American judge
- Harrison Eiteljorg1903-1997American philanthropist and patron of the arts
- Harvey N. Middleton1895-1978Physician
- Helen McKay Steele1875-1947American artist
- Henry F. West1796-1856American politician (1796-1856); mayor of Indianapolis in 2856
- Henry J. Richardson Jr.1827-1905American civil rights lawyer and activist
- Herbert Jones1904-1926American racecar driver
- Irena Wiley1900-1972Polish-American sculptor and painter
- Irwin Bertermann1880-1945American florist
- Ivan N. Walker1839-1905American soldier
- Jacob Dorsey Forrest1866-1930American professor and businessperson
- James Robert McKee1857-1942
- Jean E. Lee1916-1968Concert pianist of African American descent
- Joel Whitaker1877-1947American football player
- John C. Ruckelshaus1930-2015Attorney, Indiana politician
- John Kinsey1844-1904American Civil War soldier
- John Love1820-1881United States Army officer 1820-1881
- John Newell Hurty1852-19251852-1925 , pharmacist and sanitarian
- John Swanson1842-1923Union Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- John W. Kern Jr.1900-1971American politician
- Jonathan W. Gordon1820-1887Indiana writer
- Josephine R. Nichols1838-1897American lecturer and temperance reformer
- Justin Carlyle Gruelle1889-1978American artist, painter, and illustrator 1889-1978
- Lawson Harvey1856-1920American judge
- Lillian Haydon Childress Hall1889-1958African American librarian
- Louisa Hawkins Canby1818-1889Nurse
- Lucy Taggart1880-1960American painter
- Lyman S. Ayres1824-1896American businessman
- Marjorie Vonnegut1888-1936American actress
- Robert Frost Daggett I1875-1955(1875-1955) American architect
- Robert L. Nipper1903-1993Basketball player
- Samuel K. Hoshour1803-1883Indiana writer
- Samuel Merrill Jr.1831-1924American publisher, Civil War officer, and diplomat
- Skiles Edward Test1889-1964American businessman
- Thomas B. Harvey1827-1889American physician
- Tiny Baldwin1904-1959American baseball player
- Walter Jacob Quick1861-1936American agriculturalist
- William J. Wallace1814-1894Irish-American politician
- William Pinckney Fishback1831-1901American lawyer, newspaper editor and author
- William Taylor Cannon1856-1931American railroad official
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge1908-1965
- Albert Ross Williams1891-1976American high school teacher
- Alexander Johnson1847-1941Social worker
- Alfred M. Glossbrenner1869-1938American publisher and politician
- Alfred McCartney Ogle1856-1911West Point graduate, class of 1879
- Aquilla Jones1836-1888American businessman
- Aquilla Q. Jones1852-1926American lawyer
- Berry Robinson Sulgrove1827-1890American writer (182_-1890)
- Brandt Steele1870-1965American painter
- Caroline Dunn1903-1994American librarian
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People whose Wikidata entry gives Crown Hill National 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.
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What Crown Hill National 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.
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