About Fairview Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery near New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. The grounds sit at about 453 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 20 notable people buried here, including Michael C. Kerr, Ashbel P. Willard and George A. Bicknell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 434312. The nearest other listed cemetery is West Haven Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kraft Funeral Service in New Albany, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 15 cemeteries we list in Floyd County, and 56 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 15 listings in Floyd County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Albany. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Fairview Cemetery
Among them: 5 writers, 4 US representatives, 2 business leaders, 2 Civil War veterans, 1 baseball player, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 journalist.
- Michael C. Kerr1827-1876American politician
- Ashbel P. Willard1820-1860American politician
- George A. Bicknell1815-1891American politician
- Simeon K. Wolfe1824-1888American politician
- Ferdinand N. Kahler1864-1927American inventor
- James W. Dunbar1860-1943American politician
- Clarence N. Hickman1889-1981American physicist
- Jouett Meekin1867-1944Major League Baseball pitcher
- C. J. Bulliet1883-1952American art critic, journalist and author
- Benjamin Franklin Scribner1825-1900American author; soldier of the Mexican and Civil Wars
- Charles H. Seston1840-1864Recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Evan B. Stotsenburg1865-1937Indiana Attorney General, 1915-1917
Show all 20 notable burials
- Washington C. DePauw1822-1887American businessman
- Daniel F. Griffin1833-1865
- Edward G. Rogers1842-1910American politician (1842-1910), Minnesota, House 1887-88 (District 27)
- John Hawley Stotsenburg1830-1909Indiana writer 1830-1909
- John Mann Walker1874-1960American Methodist minister
- Katherine Boudinot Atterbury1844-1931
- Letitia Hart Vance1854-1926
- Nora Severinghaus Walker1873-1938
People whose Wikidata entry gives Fairview 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
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What Fairview 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
- West Haven CemeteryNew Albany, INCemetery0.9 mi
- New Albany National Cemetery1943 Ekin Avenue, New Albany, INNational cemetery1.0 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryNew Albany, INCemetery1.0 mi
- Portland CemeteryLouisville, KYCemetery1.6 mi
- Holy Trinity CemeteryNew Albany, INCemetery1.7 mi
- Saint John Cemetery2647 Duncan Street, Louisville, KYCemetery2.4 mi
- Kraft - Graceland CemeteryNew Albany, INCemetery2.5 mi
- Western CemeteryLouisville, KYCemetery3.5 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryLouisville, KYCemetery3.7 mi
- Scott CemeteryNew Albany, INCemetery3.7 mi
Funeral homes near Fairview Cemetery
- Kraft Funeral Service0.4 miFuneral home · New Albany · (812) 945-6321
- Spring Valley Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · New Albany · (502) 742-8016
- Seabrook Dieckmann Naville Funeral Homes0.6 miFuneral home · New Albany · (812) 944-6455
- Shrader Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · New Albany · (812) 944-2239
- Magnolia Cremations1.1 miFuneral home · New Albany · (812) 913-0044
- Hughes Funeral Supplies1.8 miFuneral home · New Albany · (812) 945-8263
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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