About Wildwood Cemetery
Wildwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Amherst Center, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It lies about 1.1 mi south of Amherst Center. The grounds sit at about 397 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 42 notable people buried here, including Charles Ammi Cutter, Herbert Baxter Adams and David Peck Todd. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 601181. The nearest other listed cemetery is West Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Douglass Funeral Service in Amherst, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 89 cemeteries we list in Hampshire County, and 71 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hampshire County dates to 1743.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Amherst Center. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Wildwood Cemetery
Among them: 11 writers, 8 scientists, 3 journalists, 2 artists, 2 US representatives, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician, 1 physician.
- Charles Ammi Cutter1837-1903American librarian
- Herbert Baxter Adams1850-1901American educator and historian
- David Peck Todd1855-1939American astronomer
- Henry Steele Commager1902-1998American historian
- Mabel Loomis Todd1856-1932American writer and editor
- Ray Stannard Baker1870-1946American journalist
- Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson1830-1913American poet
- Gareth B. Matthews1929-2011American philosopher
- Anson D. Morse1846-1916American historian
- Frederic Brewster Loomis1873-1937American geologist
- Julius Hawley Seelye1824-1895American politician
- Tad Mosel1922-2008American playwright
Show all 42 notable burials
- Benjamin Kendall Emerson1843-1932United States geologist
- George B. Churchill1866-1925American politician from Massachusetts
- Otto Vogl1927-2013American chemist
- William Penn Brooks1851-1938American agronomist, botanist and college president
- Charles Henry Fernald1838-1921American entomologist, zoologist, naturalist
- Frank Albert Waugh1869-1943American landscape architect and botanist
- Walter Alden Dyer1878-1943American journalist
- William I. Fletcher1844-1917Librarian, bibliographer, and indexer who served as the head librarian of Amherst College
- William Seymour Tyler1810-1897United States classical scholar
- Alvin Etler1913-1973American composer and musician
- Frances Smith1910-1928American student who disappeared in January 1928
- John Franklin Genung1850-1919Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst College; born 1850; died 1919
- Kenyon L. Butterfield1868-1935American academic administrator
- Maria Elizabeth Fernald1839-1919American entomologist
- Deborah Digges1950-2009American writer
- Dorothea Seelye Franck1917-1988Penwoman
- Lloyd Jordan1900-1990American football player and coach, basketball coach
- William Austin Dickinson1829-1895American lawyer, brother of Emily Dickinson
- William Lewis Montague1831-1908American university teacher
- Charles Henry Fernald1894-1942American business professor
- Lorin Ball1898-1969American baseball, basketball, and ice hockey coach
- Charles Hansen Toll1882-1972American professor
- Helen Elizabeth Fernald1891-1964American painter, curator, and lecturer
- Henry Martyn Adams1844-1909American military officer
- Leslie P. Fairfield1909-1995American Episcopal Church missionary
- Mary A. Fairfield1909-1996American Episcopal Church missionary
- Oscar Schotte1895-1988Russian-American biologist
- Sidney Siggia1920-1992American chemistry professor
- Thomas McNair Scott1901-2001Pediatric researcher
- William James Seelye1857-1931American educator and clergyman
People whose Wikidata entry gives Wildwood 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 Wildwood 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
- West CemeteryAmherst Center, MACemetery0.8 mi
- North CemeteryNorth Amherst, MACemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Brigid's CemeteryAmherst, MACemetery2.3 mi
- Plainville CemeteryAmherst, MACemetery2.4 mi
- Holy Rosary CemeteryAmherst, MACemetery2.5 mi
- CemeteryNorth Amherst, MACemetery2.8 mi
- East Leverett CemeteryLeverett, MACemetery3.4 mi
- North Hadley CemeteryHatfield, MACemetery3.5 mi
- Valley CemeteryPelham, MACemetery3.6 mi
- Russellville CemeteryNorth Amherst, MACemetery3.8 mi
Funeral homes near Wildwood Cemetery
- Douglass Funeral Service1.0 miFuneral home · Amherst · (413) 253-3407
- Wrisley Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · South Deerfield · (413) 665-4046
- Drozdal Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-5306
- Czelusniak Funeral Home7.3 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-3585
- Ahearn Funeral Home7.6 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 587-0044
- Pease And Gay Funeral Home8.2 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-0412
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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