Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland
About Green Mount Cemetery
Green Mount Cemetery is a cemetery in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland. It was established in 1839. It carries a heritage listing (NRHP 80001786). The grounds sit at about 125 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 270 notable people buried here, including John Wilkes Booth, Allen Dulles and Harriet Lane. The nearest funeral home we know of is March Funeral Homes in Baltimore, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 55 cemeteries we list in Baltimore City, and 128 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. It is the oldest recorded cemetery in Baltimore City. 7 of the 55 listings in Baltimore City have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Green Mount Cemetery
Among them: 25 Civil War veterans, 22 writers, 21 US representatives, 15 business leaders, 10 Mexican-American War veterans, 8 artists, 8 governors, 8 physicians.
- John Wilkes Booth1838-1865American stage actor and assassin
- Allen Dulles1893-1969First civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
- Harriet Lane1830-1903First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- Robert Garrett1875-1961American athlete and collector
- Joseph E. Johnston1807-1891Confederate general
- Johns Hopkins1795-1873American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist
- Henry Augustus Rowland1848-1901American physicist
- Louis McLane1786-1857American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland
- Sidney Lanier1842-1881American musician and poet
- James Young1872-1948American film director, actor and screenwriter
- John P. Kennedy1795-1870Novelist, politician
- Walter Lord1917-2002American author
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- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte1785-1879Wife of Jérôme Bonaparte
- Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps1793-1884American educator, botanist, author
- Daniel Barringer1860-1929American geologist
- John Nelson1791-1860Attorney General of the United States from 1843 to 1845
- Margaret Seddon1872-1968American film actress
- John Gresham Machen1881-1937American theologian
- Johnny Eck1911-1991American entertainer
- Junius Brutus Booth1796-1852English stage actor
- Reverdy Johnson1796-1876American politician
- Albert Cabell Ritchie1876-1936American politician
- Isaac R. Trimble1802-1888Confederate Army general
- Jesse D. Bright1812-1875American politician
- Robert Milligan McLane1815-1898American politician
- Daniel Sheldon Norton1829-1870American politician
- Thomas Swann1809-1883American politician
- William Pinkney Whyte1824-1908American politician
- Augustus Bradford1806-1881American politician
- Henry Winter Davis1817-1865American politician
- John Archibald Campbell1811-1889American politician and jurist
- Lyman R. Casey1837-1914American politician
- Robert Goodloe Harper1765-1825American politician
- Anthony Kennedy1810-1892American politician
- Benjamin Huger1805-1877Confederate Army general
- George H. Steuart1828-1903Confederate Army general
- Arunah Shepherdson Abell1806-1888American publisher, philanthropist
- Benjamin Chew Howard1791-1872Politician
- Mary Elizabeth Garrett1854-1915American suffragist & philanthropist
- Brantz Mayer1809-1879United States government official and writer
- Daniel Moreau Barringer1806-1873American politician
- Edward Coote Pinkney1802-1828American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
- Frank Brown1846-1920American politician
- George Hyde Fallon1902-1980American politician
- Harry Nice1877-194150th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1935 to 1939
- John Carlyle Herbert1775-1846American politician
- John H. Winder1800-1865Confederate Army general
- Michael O'Laughlen1840-1867Conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Theodore McKeldin1900-1974American politician
- William Albert1816-1879American politician
- Arnold Elzey1816-1871Confederate Army general
- Charles Marshall1830-1902Confederate Army officer
- Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer1822-1904English-American writer, translator
- Erastus B. Tyler1822-1891Union Army general
- J. André Fouilhoux1879-1945French born American architect
- Samuel Arnold1834-1906Lincoln conspirator
- Thomas Riggs Jr.1873-1945American engineer and 3rd Governor of Alaska Territory
- William Fell Giles1807-1879American politician
- William Henry Rinehart1825-1874American artist
- Christopher Hughes1786-1849American attorney and diplomat
- Elijah Bond1847-1921American lawyer and inventor
- Francis Coates Jones1857-1932American painter
- George Brown1787-1859Irish-American railroad entrepreneur, born 1787
- Henry Alfred Todd1854-1925American philologist
- Henry Walters1848-1931American art collector
- Hugh Bolton Jones1848-1927American painter
- John H. B. Latrobe1803-1891American lawyer and inventor
- John Lewis Thomas1835-1893American politician
- John Van Lear Findlay1839-1907U.S. Representative from Maryland
- John W. Garrett1872-1942American diplomat
- John W. Garrett1820-1884American banker & railroad executive
- Joseph Lancaster Brent1826-1905Confederate General
- Samuel Ringgold1796-1846American Army officer
- William Thompson Walters1820-1894American businessperson and art collector
- A. Aubrey Bodine1906-1970American photographer
- Alexander McKim1748-1832American politician
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II1806-1878American civil engineer, railroad official
- Harry Welles Rusk1852-1926American politician
- Hugh Lennox Bond1828-1893United States federal judge
- Isaac Dashiell Jones1806-1893American politician
- Isaac Edward Emerson1859-1931American businessman
- James Buck1808-1865United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- James H. Preston1860-1938American politician and mayor of Baltimore 1911-1919
- Mary Frick Jacobs1851-1936American philanthropist
- Richard Snowden Andrews1830-1903Confederate Army officer, architect and diplomat
- Ross Winans1796-1877Inventor, locomotive builder
- Severn Teackle Wallis1816-1894American politician
- Solomon Hillen, Jr.1810-1873American politician
- Arthur Pendleton Mason1835-1893Confederate Army officer
- Cadwalader Ringgold1802-1867United States Navy admiral, explorer and botanical collector
- Edward Raymond Ames1806-1879American chaplain
- Enoch Pratt1808-1896American businessman
- George F. Emmons1811-1884United States Navy admiral
- George Riggs Gaither Jr.1858-1921American lawyer and politician
- Henry Barton Jacobs1858-1939American physician and educator
- Howard Warfield Gill1883-1912American aviation pioneer
- James M. Buchanan1803-1876American politician
- John Barney1785-1857American politician
- John D. Ford1840-1918Officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish, American War
- Katharine Pearson Woods1853-1923American writer
- Lewis Henry Little1817-1862Confederate Army general
- Louis Wardlaw Miles1873-1944United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Mark Sullivan1874-1952American journalist
- Mary Spear Nicolas Tiernan1835-1891American writer
- Russell Kelso Carter1849-1928American clergyman and songwriter
- Thomas Kelso1784-1878American philanthropist
- Virginia Woodward Cloud1861-1938American writer
- Alexander Alderman Semmes1825-1885United States Navy officer
- Annie Armstrong1850-1938Lay Southern Baptist denominational leader
- Charles D. Gaither1860-1947American military officer and police commissioner
- American lawyer and politician
- Charles MacTavish1818-1868American landowner and briefly Irish politician
- Elizabeth Gault Fisher1909-2000U.S. entomologist, bacteriologist and amateur bryologist
- Frank Sellman1851-1907American professional baseball player
- Gerald W. Johnson1890-1980American writer
- Harold Randolph1861-1927American pianist
- Harper Pennington1854-1920American painter
- Henry Symes Lehr1869-1929American socialite
- Henry Willis Baxley1803-1876American physician
- Horace Edwin Hayden1837-1917American clergyman and genealogist
- Isaac Nevett Steele1809-1891American diplomat
- James Bankhead1783-1856Union United States Army general 1783-1856
- James Hodges1822-1885
- John A. Stevens1844-1916American actor and stage actor
- John C. B. Pendleton1871-1938American football coach and stock broker
- John MacTavish1787-1852British consul
- Joseph Maxwell Miller1877-1933American sculptor
- Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer1812-1878American bishop
- Mary Mackall Gwinn1860-1940American university teacher
- Robert T. Banks1822-1901American politician
- Stub Brown1870-1948American baseball player
- Walter Booth Brooks1823-1896Millionaire
- William H. Winder1775-1824United States Army general
- William Wallace Spence1815-1915American businessman
- Alexander Brown1764-1834Scots-Irish merchant and banker
- Alfred Hodder1866-1907American author, attorney and academic
- Andrew Ellicott Warner1786-1870American silversmith
- Caroline Canfield Bullock1845-1926American folklorist
- Charles G. Wilson1843-1906American businessman and public official
- Clayton Colman Hall1847-1916Maryland historian
- Edwin Litchfield Turnbull1872-1927American composer and businessman
- George M. Gelston1912-1970
- Herbert W. Rand1872-1960American zoologist
- James Barroll Washington1839-1900Confederate prisoner
- James Fenner Lee1843-1898American diplomat and politician
- James Innes Randolph1837-1887
- James McHenry Howard1839-1916Confederate Army officer
- James William Black1866-1934American historian
- Jerry Wall1841-1923
- John B. Van Meter1842-1930American cleric and college administrator
- John G. Sproston1828-1862United States Navy officer
- John W. Clark1830-1898American soldier (1830-1898); Medal of Honor recipient
- Logie Bonnett1889-1957American newspaper editor and cartoonist
- Mary Day Lanier1844-1931American poet
- Nathaniel Potter1770-1843American physician and Army surgeon
- Polly Carroll Caton1770-1846Socialite
- Richard Q. Yardley1903-1979American cartoonist
- Robert Cooper McGinn1831-1905Maryland educator
- S. Davies Warfield1859-1927American businessman
- Samuel Chew1806-1863American physician, ophthalmologist, medical educator 1806-1863
- Samuel Claggett Chew1837-1915American physician
- Sebastian F. Streeter1810-1864American school founder, educator, historian, lawyer
- Thomas Riggs Sr.1831-1920
- William H. Shock1821-1905American Navy engineer
- William Henry DeCourcy Wright1795-1864Diplomat, coffee importer 1795-1864
- William Keyser1835-1904American businessman
- William Shepard Bryan1827-1906American judge
- Winfield Peters1841-1918American merchant, and officer in the Confederate Army; active in Baltimore, Mayrland
- A. Nisbet Lee1843-1879West Point graduate; class of 1865
- A. Snowden Piggot1822-1869Chemist
- Achsah Carroll Sargent1835-1914
- Albert Ritchie1834-1903American lawyer and law professor
- Approximately 1790-1841 or ca. 1790-1841
- Alice Emma Sauerwein Lord1848-1930Writer
- Alice Warder Garrett1877-1952American patron and collector
- Alpheus Abbott1771-1815
- Ann Sword Dorsey1758-1812
- Anne Esther Goldthwaite1804-1883
- Anne Wilson1774-1863
- Bennett Bernard Browne1842-1922American gynecologist
- Bessie Abbott Pancoast1850-1919
- Charles Carroll Harper1802-1837Secretary of the American legation to France
- Charles Fleetwood Hanna1841-1926Former employee of U.S. Customs Service in Baltimore
- Charles Peale Didier1869-1900American writer
- Charles Smith Gilmor1817-1866
- Charlotte Nichols Patterson Gilmor1820-1846
- Clemens Lamping1845-1902American businessman
- Edward Reynolds III1854-1927American who was from a historically prominent Maryland family
- Eleanor Addison Gittings1824-1881
- French Noble
- Eliza Bradlee Winchester Dana1835-1917
- Elizabeth Caskie Cabell Ritchie1851-1931Official Hostess of Maryland, 1920-1931
- Elizabeth Celestine Pinckney Huger1812-1867
- Elizabeth McCormick Reese1849-1918Writer
- Francis White1825-1904Baltimore millionaire
- Georg Wilhelm Gail1828-1905German-American tobacco manufacturer
- George Brown1845-1902
- George Henry Rohé1851-1899American physician
- George Murray Gill Jr.1842-1865Confederate Army soldier
- George William Brown1870-1932American missionary and Indologist
- George William Whistler1822-1869Railroad engineer 1822-1869
- Gilbert Fraser1848-1924British Consul General in Baltimore from 1913 to 1919
- Gordon Stick1903-1986American businessman
- Grace Dodge Rea1915-1977
- Harriet "Hattie" Reynolds1852-1927American environmental activist and Maryland's first female deputy game warden
- Harrison Garrett1911-1994Investment banker
- Helen Dunnington Reynolds Brewer1876-1965American housewife from a historically prominent Maryland family
- Helen Starr Lamping1848-1930American housewife and mother
- Henry C. Bankhead1828-1894American military officer
- Isabella Pinkney White1794-1871
- James Dabney McCabe1808-1875American clergyman
- James Lynah1793-1877
- Jane Eliza Janney1831-1916
- Jane Moffitt Hogg1807-1898Wife of William Hogg
- John Gill1841-1912American soldier and author
- John Henry Keene1835-1914American lawyer and writer
- John Pemburton Pleasants1766-1825
- John S Saunders1836-1904Saunders, John S; class of 1858
- John Sterett Gittings1847-1926Wealthy banker, politician
- John Sterett Gittings1798-1879
- Joseph Robinson1787-1863American printer, publisher
- Joseph Wilkinson Reynolds1786-1841American businessman and member of a historically prominent Maryland family
- Joseph Wilson Patterson1786-1866Baltimore businessman, 1786-1866
- Julia Bell Deford1872-1921
- Est. 24 Oct 1825 - est. 26 Sep 1875
- Lucy Abbott Cate1866-1955
- Lydia Fay1779-1854
- Margaret Sprigg Oliver Thompson1839-190226 Apr 1839 - 22 Apr 1902
- Marie Grace McShane1878-1957
- Marie Louise Thompson1874-1937
- Mary Ann Holmes1802-18852 Jun 1802 - 22 Oct 1885
- Mary Eleanor Lloyd Goldsborough1815-1885
- Mary Mackall Johnson1801-1873
- Mary Wellesley McTavishdied 1850(died 1850)
- Metta Henrietta Waesche1806-1900American amateur artist
- Miles White1856-1938Baltimore businessman
- Miles White1792-1876Wealthy businessman
- Nathan Tyson1787-1868Baltimore merchant
- Nathaniel Holmes Morison1815-1890Provost of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore 1867-1890
- Octavius Tennyson Weems1837-1918Confederate soldier and steamship line worker from a historically prominent Maryland family
- Rachel Thomason Weems Reynolds1821-1905American housewife from a historically prominent Maryland family
- Renee Marie Coudert1875-1962
- Richard Curzon Hoffman1839-1926American merchant
- Richard Norris1808-1874Millionaire
- Robert Garrett1783-1857, merchant and financier
- Robert Gilmor1748-1822Baltimore merchant 1748-1822
- Robert Oliver1757-1834Baltimore merchant, owner of Green Mount
- Roger Atkinson Walke1877-1959Virginian priest in Japan
- Smith Hollins McKim1873-1932American physician
- Stephen Bonsal1831-1893Wealthy coffee importer
- Susan Elizabeth Lynah1817-1896
- Thomas Baxter Gresham1844-193320 Oct 1844 - certain 8 Jul 1933
- Thomas Courtenay Jenkins1869-1938
- Thomas Emerson Bond1813-1872American physician and preacher
- Thomas Harrison Garrett1849-18881849-1888, Baltimore, Maryland collector
- Thomas J. Lee1808-1891West Point graduate, class of 1830
- Thomas Kensett1814-1877American businessman prominent in the oyster packing industry in Baltimore, MD
- Thomas Reynolds1820-1860American physician from a historically prominent family in Maryland
- Virginia Purviance Bonsal1869-1955
- William F. Cochran1876-1950American churchman and philanthropist in Baltimore
- William Frederick Frick1817-1905Baltimore lawyer
- William Gilmor1775-1829
- William Hogg1803-1867Father of Thomas Egenton Hogg
- William Lamping1815-1882American businessman
- William Lamping Jr.1869-1895Member of the General Society of the War of 1812
- William Smith Gittings Williams1863-1918
- William T. Magruder1829-1863American Civil War soldier
- William Thomas Wilson1820-1854
- William Tilghman Goldsborough1808-1876
People whose Wikidata entry gives Green Mount 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
39.30877, -76.60658
What Green Mount 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.
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Funeral homes near Green Mount Cemetery
- March Funeral Homes0.2 miFuneral home · Baltimore · (410) 727-3300
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Green Mount Cemetery located?
Green Mount Cemetery is at 1501 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202 in Baltimore City. GPS coordinates: 39.30877, -76.60658.
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