About Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery is a christian cemetery near Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. It lies about 2.6 mi southeast of Portland. The grounds sit at about 135 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 127 notable people buried here, including William P. Fessenden, Thomas Brackett Reed and Nathan Clifford. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 565963. The nearest other listed cemetery is Pine Grove Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the north. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Wilde Memorial Chapel in Portland, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 404 cemeteries we list in Cumberland County, and 144 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cumberland County dates to 1658. 2 of the 404 listings in Cumberland County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Portland. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Evergreen Cemetery
Among them: 21 US representatives, 11 writers, 10 business leaders, 9 Civil War veterans, 6 journalists, 5 artists, 5 governors, 3 architects.
- William P. Fessenden1806-1869American lawyer and politician
- Thomas Brackett Reed1839-1902American politician
- Nathan Clifford1803-1881American politician
- Neal S. Dow1804-1897American Prohibition advocate and politician
- Albion Parris1788-1857American politician
- George Foster Shepley1819-1878Union Army general, politician
- Ether Shepley1789-1877American politician
- John B. Curtis1827-1897American businessman
- Oakley C. Curtis1865-1924American politician
- Samuel Wells1801-1868American politician and Governor of Maine
- Benjamin Paul Akers1825-1861American sculptor
- Henry B. Cleaves1840-1912Union Army officer, politician and lawyer
Show all 127 notable burials
- John Appleton1815-1864American politician
- Asher Hinds1863-1919American politician
- Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith1806-1876American politician
- James Phinney Baxter1831-1921American businessman, historian, civic leader
- Samuel C. Fessenden1815-1882American politician
- Carroll L. Beedy1880-1947American politician
- Charles P. Mattocks1840-1910U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Elbridge Gerry1813-1886American politician 1813-1886
- Francis Fessenden1839-1906United States Army general during American Civil War
- John Lynch1825-1892Nineteenth century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine
- Robert Hale1889-1976American politician
- Charles Goddard1879-1951American playwright and screenwriter
- Charles Libby1844-1915American politician and lawyer
- Charles W. Walton1819-1900American politician
- Ezekiel Whitman1776-1866American politician
- Hugh J. Chisholm1847-1912Canadian-American businessman
- James Deering Fessenden1833-1882Union Army general
- Josiah Hayden Drummond1827-1902American lawyer Maine Attorney General
- Obed Hall1757-1828American politician
- Donald F. Snow1877-1958American politician
- Edward Fox1815-1881United States federal judge
- Henry Sweetser Burrage1837-1926American historian
- Lorenzo De Medici Sweat1818-1898American politician
- Scott Wilson1870-1942Judge
- T. A. D. Fessenden1826-1868American politician and lawyer
- Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr.1923-1997American architect
- William W. Thomas Jr.1839-1927United States lawyer, politician and U.S. ambassador to Sweden
- Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.1854-1934American architect
- Asa Clapp1805-1891American politician
- Benjamin Brewster1860-1941American bishop
- Clara Barnes Martin1838-1886American author
- Enoch Foster1839-1913American judge
- Esther Stevens Brazer1898-1945American historian
- Henry A. Neely1830-1899Church father
- Holman S. Melcher1841-1905Union Army officer
- Jane Lord Hersom1840-1928American physician, suffragist
- John Storer1796-1867American merchant
- Joseph C. Noyes1798-1868American politician
- Margaret Center Klingelsmith1852-19311859-1931 , law librarian and author
- Nathan Clifford Brown1856-1941American ornithologist
- Samuel Fessenden1784-1869American politician
- Thomas Fillebrown1836-1908American dentist
- William LeBaron Putnam1835-1918United States federal judge
- Winfred Thaxter Denison1873-1919American lawyer
- Adam Phillips Leighton1851-1922American politician
- Alexander A. LaFleur1896-1980American politician
- Charles Frederic Allen1816-1899American clergyman and educator
- Charles P. Hatch1868-1946American politician (1868-1946); Maine State Auditor from 1907 to 1911
- Henry Goddard Thomas1837-1897United States general
- James Tift Champlin1811-1882American educator (1811-1882); president of Colby College from 1857 to 1873
- Jedidiah Preble1707-1784
- John J. Perry1811-1897American politician, Maine
- John P. Thomas1886-1944American architect
- Louise Brown Verrill1870-1948American composer and pianist
- Mary King Longfellow1852-1945American watercolorist
- Philip James Deering Sr.1868-1935American politician
- Philip W. McIntyre1847-1912American journalist and literary critic
- Thomas H. Haskell1842-1900American judge
- William D. Puleston1881-1968American Naval officer
- Albert Tracy1818-1893American soldier and writer
- Alfred Brinkler1880-1972American organist and photographer
- Ansell Wass1832-1889Union Army general
- Carleton Wiggin1897-1970American college baseball, college football, and college ice hockey player and coach
- Charles Lorenzo Clarke1853-1941(1853-1941) American engineer
- Charles Thornton Libby1861-1948American genealogist, historian and lawyer
- Clarence E. Bangs1852-19151852-1915
- Cornelia M. Dow1842-1905American philanthropist and temperance reformer
- Cyrus Sullivan Clark1809-1880American businessman
- Darius Holbrook Ingraham1837-1923American politician
- David Moulton1871-1951American lawyer
- Florence Percy McIntyre1852-1923American writer, journalist
- George Waldon Smith1859-1932Photographer in Boston, US
- Horatio Nelson Jose1819-1892American businessman
- Israel Perkins Warren1814-1892American versatile person
- James Alfred Spalding1846-1938American ophthalmologist
- Lewis P. Fickett Jr.1926-2016American diplomat, educator, and politician
- Mildred Burrage1890-1983American artist
- Nathaniel Deering1791-1881American playwright
- Seth Chase Gordon1830-1921American surgeon
- Sidney W. Thaxter1839-1908American military officer
- Weston F. Milliken1829-1899American businessman and legislator
- Albro E. Chase1844-1921Lawyer, high school principal, author, school committee member
- Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow1814-1901American civil engineer
- Alice Storer Lunt1861-1936
- Almira K. Hasty1843-1912American botanical collector
- Anna Margaret Holwell Deering1805-1887
- Anne E. Merrill1834-1915Choir singer and supervisor of music education in Portland, Maine
- Augustus Spaulding Thayer1835-1928American physician
- Bertha Webb1868-1959American violinist
- Charles Brown Thurston1843-1920Printer and bookkeeper
- Charles Dennison Smith1855-1925American physician
- Charles R. Milliken1833-1906American merchant and manufacturer
- Dora Estella Harding Moulton1864-1931American botanical collector
- Dorothy Terry1892-1970
- Edward H. Elwell1825-1890American writer
- Edwin C. Bolles1836-1920American scholar
- Elizabeth B. Foster1862-1933American civic leader of Maine
- Francis Orville Libby1814-1873American businessman
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Henry St. John Smith1852-1896Boston lawyer
- Jane Furth1867-1949Heiress
- John Baynes1842-1903British inventor
- John Milton Adams1819-1897American politician
- John Taylor Gilman1806-1884American physician
- Josiah Milliken1803-18661 Jan 1803 - certain 11 Nov 1866
- Leonard Bond Chapman1834-19153 Feb 1834 - 2 Mar 1915
- Martha Jackson1789-1834British
- Mary Jane McAlpine1844-1897American botanist
- Mehetabel Cummings Proctor Baxter1837-1914American painter
- Melcher Prince Fobes1911-1995Ph.D. Harvard University 1948
- Melvin Ballou Gilbert1847-1910American choreographer
- Stanley T. Pullen1843-1910American businessman and politician
- William Edward Gould1837-1919American banker and genealogist
- William Henry Milliken1831-1890
- William Henry Milliken1858-1914
People whose Wikidata entry gives Evergreen 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 Evergreen 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
- Pine Grove CemeteryPortland, MECemetery0.2 mi
- Mount Carmel CemeteryPortland, MEJewish cemetery0.7 mi
- Mount Sinai CemeteryPortland, MEJewish cemetery0.7 mi
- George Street CemeteryPortland, MECemetery1.1 mi
- Bailey CemeteryPortland, MECemetery1.2 mi
- Maplewood CemeteryPortland, MECemetery1.2 mi
- Portland Friends Meeting CemetaryWestbrook, MEChristian cemetery1.6 mi
- Friends CemeteryWestbrook, MECemetery1.6 mi
- Stroudwater Burying Ground Cemetery1318 Westbrook Street, Portland, MECemetery1.7 mi
- Larrabee CemeteryWestbrook, MECemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Evergreen Cemetery
- Wilde Memorial Chapel0.3 miFuneral chapel · Portland · (207) 797-4597
- Advantage Funeral and Cremation Services0.5 miCremation provider · Portland · (207) 899-4605
- Jones, Rich & Barnes Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Portland · (207) 775-3763
- Maine Cremation Care1.2 miCremation provider · Portland · (207) 749-0094
- Coastal Cremation Services1.2 miCremation provider · Portland · (207) 699-6171
- Jewish Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Portland · (207) 774-3733
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Frequently asked questions
What are the visiting hours of Evergreen Cemetery?
The recorded hours are: sunrise-sunset. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery.
Is Evergreen Cemetery a Christian cemetery?
Our records list a Christian affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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