About Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a cemetery near Westport, Baltimore City, Maryland. The grounds sit at about 102 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 11 notable people buried here, including Joe Gans, Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson and William Ashbie Hawkins. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 597772. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Zion Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Bailey Funeral Home And Cremation Service, Pa in Halethorpe, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 55 cemeteries we list in Baltimore City, and 136 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Baltimore City dates to 1839. 7 of the 55 listings in Baltimore City have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Westport. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Among them: 1 baseball player, 1 boxer, 1 physician.
- Joe Gans1874-1910American boxer
- Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson1889-1975American activist
- William Ashbie Hawkins1862-1941American lawyer
- Frank Warfield1897-1932American baseball player and manager
- N. Louise Young1907-1997First African American woman licensed to practice medicine in Maryland
- Columbus Gordon1854-1919Leader in the Order of Galilean Fishermen
- Edgar Amos Love1891-1974Founded Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
- Samuel Green1802-1877African American abolitionist and former slave
- Thomas I. Hall1819-1902Baltimore Black activist
- Julius Cornelius Love1852-1927American Indian Methodist minister
- Susie H. Carr1862-1936First woman graduate of Centenary Biblical Institute
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Auburn 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 Mount Auburn 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
- Mount Zion CemeteryLansdowne, MDCemetery1.3 mi
- Old Saint Pauls Cemetery733 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MDCemetery2.1 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryVioletville, MDCemetery2.1 mi
- United Hebrew CemeteryLansdowne, MDJewish cemetery2.2 mi
- Cohen Family Burial Ground1225 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MDFamily cemetery2.2 mi
- Westminster Burial GroundBaltimore, MDChristian cemetery2.3 mi
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery1022 Joh Avenue, Baltimore, MDLutheran cemetery2.4 mi
- Loudon Park National CemeteryVioletville, MD · est. 1853National cemetery2.4 mi
- Loudon Park National CemeteryBeechfield, MDNational cemetery2.6 mi
- Western CemeteryEdmondson Village, MDCemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Bailey Funeral Home And Cremation Service, Pa1.4 miFuneral home · Halethorpe
- Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Baltimore
- McCully-Polyniak Funeral Home PA1.8 miFuneral home · Baltimore · (410) 752-6456
- Ambrose Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Halethorpe · (410) 242-2211
- Beverly D Cromartie Funeral Service1.8 miFuneral home · Baltimore · (410) 400-3440
- Mccully-Polyniak Funeral Home PA2.3 miFuneral home · Baltimore · (410) 355-1185
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