About Brookside Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery is a cemetery near Trenton, Hancock County, Maine. It lies about 5.6 mi north of Trenton. The grounds sit at about 43 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including Marguerite Yourcenar, Margaret Ayer Barnes and Charles Rockwell Lanman. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 563020. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sheep Island Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Jordan-Fernald Funeral Homes in Mt-desert, about 0.1 mi away. It is one of 268 cemeteries we list in Hancock County, and 109 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Trenton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Brookside Cemetery
Among them: 3 writers.
- Marguerite Yourcenar1903-1987French novelist and essayist
- Margaret Ayer Barnes1886-1967American playwright, novelist, short story writer
- Charles Rockwell Lanman1850-1941American linguist
- Ursula Catherine Tarnowski1924-1996(1924-1996) president of New York City Technical College
- Ursula Elizabeth Johanna Schwerin1925-2018(1925-2018) German American nurse
People whose Wikidata entry gives Brookside 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
44.36161, -68.33769
What Brookside 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
- Sheep Island CemeteryTrenton, MECemetery0.6 mi
- Oak Hill Road CemeteryTrenton, MECemetery1.3 mi
- Kenison CemeteryTrenton, MECemetery1.5 mi
- Sound CemeteryBar Harbor, MECemetery1.7 mi
- Higgins CemeteryTrenton, MECemetery1.9 mi
- Burns Richardson Burial GroundTrenton, MECemetery2.2 mi
- Richardson Burying GroundTremont, MECemetery2.2 mi
- Mountain View CemeteryTrenton, MECemetery2.4 mi
- Brown CemeteryBar Harbor, MECemetery2.4 mi
- Higgins Marcyes Burial GroundTrenton, MECemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Brookside Cemetery
- Jordan-Fernald Funeral Homes0.1 miFuneral home · Mt-desert · (207) 812-7090
- Jordan-Fernald Funeral Homes13 miFuneral home · Ellsworth · (207) 667-2521
- Bragdon-kelley Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Ellsworth · (207) 546-2435
- Acadia Burial & Cremation Direct14 miCremation provider · Ellsworth · (207) 664-0007
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