Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Emporia, Kansas

Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas. It lies about 1.6 mi southeast of Emporia. The grounds sit at about 1,168 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including William Allen White, Preston B. Plumb and Edward Herbert Rees. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 477501. The nearest other listed cemetery is Maplewood Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Charter Funerals in Emporia, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 39 cemeteries we list in Lyon County, and 18 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.

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

Among them: 3 journalists, 3 writers, 1 baseball player, 1 physician, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner, 1 scientist, 1 US representative, 1 US senator.

• William Allen White1868-1944
  American newspaper editor and Progressive leader
• Preston B. Plumb1837-1891
  Union Army officer and politician
• Edward Herbert Rees1886-1969
  American politician
• William Lindsay White1900-1973
  American newspaper editor
• Warren Parrish1803-1877
  American minister
• Charles V. Eskridge1833-1900
  American politician and judge
• Homer Woodson Hargiss1887-1978
  American football and basketball player, track and field athlete, coach
• L. H. Hausam1870-1941
  Academic professor of penmanship and business
• Charles Burleigh Graves1841-1912
  American judge
• Edwin Wilber Cunningham1842-1905
  American judge
• John Hampton Watson1804-1883
  American judge
• Edna Frederikson1904-1998
  American writer and college professor

People whose Wikidata entry gives Maplewood Memorial Lawn 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.

• Maplewood Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  0.1 mi
• Sacred Heart Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  3.8 mi
• Cottonwood Friends Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  3.8 mi
• Cottonwood

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  3.8 mi
• Evergreen Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  4.6 mi
• Greenwood Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  4.6 mi
• Fowler Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  5.5 mi
• Haworth Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  6.8 mi
• Township Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Municipal cemetery

  6.9 mi
• Forest Hill Cemetery

  Emporia, KS
  Cemetery

  7.7 mi

• Charter Funerals

  Funeral home · Emporia · (620) 342-5522
  1.4 mi
• Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Emporia · (620) 342-2134
  1.4 mi
• Reeble Monuments

  Monument dealer · Emporia · (620) 342-5573
  2.0 mi
• Vanarsdale Funeral Services

  Funeral home · Lebo · (620) 256-6522
  19 mi
• Miller Granite Memorials LLC

  Monument dealer · Lebo · (620) 256-6833
  19 mi
• Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral

  Funeral home · Cottonwood Falls · (620) 273-6311
  19 mi

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