About Forest Home Cemetery
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery near Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa. It lies about 1.1 mi northwest of Mount Pleasant. The grounds sit at about 715 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including James Harlan, Arabella Mansfield and Joshua G. Newbold. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1823579. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mental Health Institute Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kimzey Funeral Home in Mt Pleasant, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 85 cemeteries we list in Henry County, and 58 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mount Pleasant. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Home Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 1 governor, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 US senator, 1 War of 1812 veteran, 1 writer.
- James Harlan1820-1899American politician
- Arabella Mansfield1846-1911American lawyer and suffragist
- Joshua G. Newbold1830-1903Union Army officer and politician
- James Lisle Gillis1792-1881American politician
- William F. Kopp1869-1938American politician
- Cordelia Throop Cole1833-1900American social reformer, writer, managing editor
- Emma Kate Corkhill1866-1913Early female professor of English Literature
- Alice Bird Babb1850-1926American educator
- Charles A. Swan1838-1914American Medal of Honor recipient
- John Wheeler1815-1881American educator, first president of Baldwin University
- Winfield S. Withrow1855-1930American judge
- Frederick Crane1927-2011American musicologist
Show all 13 notable burials
- American politician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Home 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
40.95183, -91.54256
What Forest Home 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
- Mental Health Institute CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery0.1 mi
- Saint Alphonsus CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery0.2 mi
- Williford CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery0.8 mi
- Willeford CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery0.8 mi
- Mount Pleasant Old City CemeteryMount Pleasant, IAMunicipal cemetery0.9 mi
- Irishtown CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery1.1 mi
- Barton CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery2.0 mi
- Pleasant Hill CemeteryMount Pleasant, IACemetery2.1 mi
- Menefee Family CemeteryMount Pleasant, IAFamily cemetery2.8 mi
- Short Family BurialsMount Pleasant, IACemetery3.3 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Home Cemetery
- Whitney Monument Works - Mt. Pleasant1.3 miMonument dealer · Mount Pleasant · (319) 385-8421
- Kimzey Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Mt Pleasant · (319) 385-2244
- Murphy Funeral Home and Monuments1.4 miFuneral home · Mt Pleasant · (319) 385-4713
- Olson-Yoder Funeral Home and Crematory1.6 miCremation provider · Mt Pleasant · (319) 385-1998
- Olson-powell Memorial Chapel1.6 miFuneral chapel · Mt Pleasant · (888) 405-9005
- Powell Funeral Homes1.6 miFuneral home · Mount Pleasant
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