About Mount Calvary Cemetery
Mount Calvary Cemetery is a cemetery near Clarendon Hills, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.7 mi west of Clarendon Hills. Wikidata records 19 notable people buried here, including John L. Sullivan, James Michael Curley and Hugh Duffy. The nearest other listed cemetery is Oaklawn Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Joseph Russo Funeral Home Inc in Boston, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 133 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Suffolk County dates to 1659. 3 of the 52 listings in Suffolk County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Clarendon Hills. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery
Among them: 5 baseball players, 3 US representatives, 1 actor, 1 boxer, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 Spanish-American War veteran.
- John L. Sullivan1858-1918American boxer
- James Michael Curley1874-1958American politician
- Hugh Duffy1866-1954Baseball player and manager
- Edward Lawrence Logan1875-1939United States general
- Tommy McCarthy1863-1922American baseball player and coach
- Curry Foley1856-1898Irish baseball player
- Henry F. Naphen1852-1905American politician
- Joe Dugan1897-1982American baseball player
- John A. Keliher1866-1938American politician from Massachusetts
- Helen Woodford Ruth1897-1929First wife of Babe Ruth
- Tom Smith1871-1929Baseball pitcher from the United States
- Bartlett Laffey1841-1901United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
Show all 19 notable burials
- Catherine Ann Norton1852-1913(1852-1913) wife of Patrick J. Murphy
- Delia Bridget Norton1857-1918Wife of James Joseph Kelley Sr.
- Miriam O'Leary Collins1861-1936American theater actor
- Edward James Flynn1859-1903Politician in Massachusetts, US
- John Franklin McInnes1874-1924Boston policeman, leader of the 1919 Boston Police Strike
- Mary Emelda Curley1884-1930American socialite
- Mary L. Gilman1849-1931
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Calvary 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 Calvary 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
- Oaklawn CemeteryClarendon Hills, MACemetery0.1 mi
- New Calvary CemeteryMattapan, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Mount Hope CemeteryRoslindale, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Michael Cemetery500 Canterbury Street, Boston, MACemetery0.8 mi
- Forest Hills CemeteryRoslindale, MACemetery1.2 mi
- Tollgate CemeteryRoslindale, MACemetery1.3 mi
- Walter Street Burying GroundRoslindale, MACemetery1.5 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryDorchester, MACemetery1.9 mi
- Codman Burial GroundAshmont, MACemetery2.1 mi
- Dorchester South CemeteryAshmont, MACemetery2.3 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Calvary Cemetery
- Joseph Russo Funeral Home Inc0.3 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 325-7300
- Davis Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Mattapan · (617) 296-1755
- George Lopes Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Mattapan · (617) 298-3432
- Brady & Fallon Funeral Service Inc1.6 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 524-0861
- Carroll-Thomas Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Hyde Park · (617) 361-0380
- Dolan Funeral Homes and Cremation Services2.2 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 298-8011
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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