About Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery near Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 26 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 10 notable people buried here, including Cyrus Edwin Dallin, John Lyons and Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 603091. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old Burying Ground, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Keefe Funeral Home in Arlington, about 0.1 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 162 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Arlington. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Among them: 2 writers, 1 football player, 1 artist, 1 baseball player.
- Cyrus Edwin Dallin1861-1944American sculptor
- John Lyons1900-1971American ice hockey player
- Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell1836-1922American novelist, short-story writer
- Tom Yewcic1932-2020American football player
- Sophie Miriam Swett1858-1912American writer
- Warren Winn Rawson1847-1908American market gardener and seed distributor
- Jack Stafford1879-1946Canadian baseball umpire
- Arthur Reginald Houghton1893-1925United States Navy officer
- Frances Olivia Grant1895-1982African-American teacher and black history education advocate
- Harriet Morse Blake1841-1878
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Pleasant 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
42.41711, -71.14791
What Mount Pleasant 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
- Old Burying GroundArlington, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Prince Hall CemeteryTufts University, MACemetery0.8 mi
- St. Paul's Catholic CemeteryTufts University, MACatholic cemetery1.0 mi
- Oak Grove CemeteryArlington, MACemetery1.1 mi
- Veterans’ Memorial CemeteryTufts University, MACemetery1.1 mi
- North Cambridge Catholic CemeteryWest Somerville/Davis Square, MACatholic cemetery1.8 mi
- Salem Street Burying GroundMedford, MACemetery2.1 mi
- Highland Meadow CemeteryBelmont, MA · est. 2005Cemetery2.4 mi
- Belmont CemeteryWatertown, MACemetery2.5 mi
- Wildwood CemeteryWinchester, MACemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Pleasant Cemetery
- Keefe Funeral Home0.1 miFuneral home · Arlington · (781) 648-5544
- Rogers And Hutchins Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Arlington
- DeVito Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Arlington · (781) 643-5610
- Beals-Geake-Magliozzi Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Medford · (781) 395-0128
- George L Doherty Funeral Service1.9 miFuneral home · Somerville · (617) 625-4320
- Keefe Funeral Homes2.1 miFuneral home · Cambridge · (617) 547-5544
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