About Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery is a cemetery near Silver Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. It lies about 1.0 mi south of Silver Hill. The grounds sit at about 210 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 39 notable people buried here, including Len Bias, Mary Church Terrell and Charles Drew. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 597683. The nearest other listed cemetery is Washington National Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Cedar Hill Funeral Home in Suitland, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 83 cemeteries we list in Prince George's County, and 124 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Prince George's County dates to 1929. 4 of the 83 listings in Prince George's County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Silver Hill. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
Among them: 10 writers, 4 scientists, 3 artists, 3 journalists, 3 physicians, 2 football players, 2 basketball players, 2 musicians.
- Len Bias1963-1986American basketball player
- Mary Church Terrell1863-1954American activist and suffragette
- Charles Drew1904-1950American surgeon and medical researcher
- Alma Thomas1891-1978American painter and art educator
- Carter Godwin Woodson1875-1950American historian, writer, and journalist
- Van McCoy1940-1979American musician, producer and songwriter
- Walter Washington1915-2003American politician and former mayor of the District of Columbia
- Georgia Douglas Johnson1880-1966American poet and playwright
- Marguerite Williams1895-1991American geologist
- Ernest Everett Just1883-1941American biologist
- Nannie Helen Burroughs1879-1961American activist
- Charles Hamilton Houston1895-1950American lawyer and civil rights attorney
Show all 39 notable burials
- Kelly Miller1863-1939American mathematician
- Sarah Loguen Fraser1850-1933American physician
- Joseph A. Walker1935-2003American dramatist
- Len Ford1926-1972American football player
- Ida Gibbs1862-1957American racial and gender equality activist
- Georgiana Simpson1868-1944African-American philologist
- Annie E. A. Walker1855-1929African-American artist
- Charles Fremont West1899-1979American athlete and physician
- Gail A. Cobb1950-1974American police officer
- Max Robinson1939-1988Television journalist and artist
- William Claytor1908-1967American mathematician
- Charlotte Holloman1922-2015American opera singer and voice teacher
- Jeremiah Daniel Baltimore1852-1929African-American engineer and educator
- Martha Cassell Thompson1925-1968American architect
- Sam Lacy1903-2003American sportwriter
- Smokey Joe Williams1886-1951American Hall of Fame baseball player
- Charles H. Wesley1891-1987American historian and academic
- Harriet Josephine Terry1885-1967Alpha Kappa Alpha founder
- Robert Heberton Terrell1857-1925African-American justice in Washington, D.C
- Carrie H. Thomas1868-1930African-American physician and school teacher
- David Foote Rivers1859-1941American theologian and politician
- John Russell Hawkins1862-1939American academic and civil servant
- John Wesley Cromwell Jr.1883-1971
- Maria Carter Syphax1804-1886Great granddaughter of Martha Washington
- William Clarence Hueston, Sr.1880-1961American lawyer
- Charles Syphax1791-1869-1869
- Margaret Perry1933-2023American librarian, bibliographer, Harlem Renaissance scholar
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lincoln Memorial 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.
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What Lincoln Memorial 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
- Washington National CemeterySuitland-Silver Hill, MDNational cemetery0.3 mi
- Cedar Hill CemeterySuitland, MDCemetery0.5 mi
- Rosewood CemeteryAnacostia, DCCemetery1.6 mi
- Rosemont Cemetery (historical)Anacostia, DCCemetery1.6 mi
- Ohev Shalom CemeteryWashington, DCJewish cemetery2.0 mi
- Bet Mishpachah Cemetery3233, Washington, DCJewish cemetery2.0 mi
- Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery1380 Alabama Avenue Southeast, Washington, DCJewish cemetery2.1 mi
- Woodlawn Cemetery4611 Benning Road, Washington, DCCemetery2.1 mi
- Elesavetgrad Cemetery3233 15th Place Southeast, Washington, DCJewish cemetery2.1 mi
- National Capitol Hebrew Cemetery4708 Fable Street, Capitol Heights, MDJewish cemetery2.1 mi
Funeral homes near Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
- Cedar Hill Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Suitland · (224) 467-2864
- Marshall-March Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Suitland · (301) 736-1616
- Hodges & Edwards Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Hillcrest Heights · (301) 899-0687
- Mc Laughlin Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Washington · (202) 889-7111
- Global Funeral Services LLC1.7 miFuneral home · Washington · (240) 723-4597
- Frazier Mason Memorial Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Washington · (202) 678-7700
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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