About Milton Cemetery
Milton Cemetery is a cemetery near Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Wikidata records 59 notable people buried here, including Dennis Miller Bunker, Nathaniel Carl Goodwin and William Cameron Forbes. The nearest other listed cemetery is Cedar Grove Cemetery, about 1.7 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Keohane Funeral Home in Quincy, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 124 cemeteries we list in Norfolk County, and 135 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Norfolk County dates to 1651. 12 of the 124 listings in Norfolk County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Milton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Milton Cemetery
Among them: 7 writers, 5 business leaders, 4 artists, 3 football players, 2 actors, 2 architects, 2 baseball players, 2 scientists.
- Dennis Miller Bunker1861-1890American artist
- Nathaniel Carl Goodwin1857-1919American actor
- William Cameron Forbes1870-1959American diplomat
- John Murray Forbes1813-1898American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist
- Adeline Dutton Train Whitney1824-1906American author
- John Peter Lesley1819-1903United States geologist
- Collette Lyons1908-1986American actress
- Hammatt Billings1818-1874American architect and illustrator
- James Anthony Burke1910-1983American politician from Massachusetts
- William Rand1828-1915American map publisher
- Alexander Forbes1882-1965American neurophysiologist
- Doc Martin1887-1935American baseball player
Show all 59 notable burials
- Edward L. Pierce1829-1897American politician, Massachusetts
- Elbie Fletcher1916-1994American baseball player
- John Hallowell1878-1927American football player
- John Lawlor1934-2018Irish hammer thrower
- Mabel Ellery Adams1865-1935Author on education for children with special needs
- Martha Beck1920-1951American serial killer
- Steve Trapilo1964-2004American football player
- Albert J. Kelley1924-2004American guidance systems engineer
- Amelia Peabody Tileston1872-1920American Red Cross worker
- Andrew Belcher1706-1771Colonial Massachusetts merchant and politician
- Edmund Janes Carpenter1845-1924American author
- Henry S. Russell1838-1905American military and government official
- Howard Deering Johnson1896-1972Entrepreneur, restaurant and hotel industry executive
- Mary H. Hinckley1845-1944American herpetologist
- Mary Wilder Tileston1843-1934American author
- Paul H. Weinert1869-1919United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas Nelson Perkins1870-1937American lawyer
- William Hathaway Forbes1840-1897American businessman
- Amelia Russell1798-1880American writer, educator 1798-1880
- Ann Terry Greene Phillips1813-1886American abolitionist
- Francis Sedgwick Watson1853-1942American surgeon
- Kenneth G. T. Webster1871-1942Canadian-American scholar
- Leon Harvey1893-1983American football, basketball, and ice hockey coach
- Peter Thacher1752-1802Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts
- Thomas Hewes Hinckley1813-1896American painter
- Wingate Rollins1894-1978American football player and coach
- Amor Hollingsworth1808-1871
- Amor Leander Hollingsworth1837-1907Millionaire
- Charles Joseph Tilden1873-1959American civil engineer
- Edith Emerson Forbes1841-1929
- Frederick Frothingham1825-1891Abolitionist
- James Joseph Kelley1855-1913Husband of Delia Norton
- John Boies Tileston1834-1898Born 1834; died 1898
- Joseph Daniels Leland1885-1968American architect, active in Massachusetts
- Katrine Parkman Coolidge1883-1977
- Lauren Radzik1985-2018American poet
- Lauriston Livingston Scaife1850-1926Lawyer
- Lydia Smith Russell1786-1859American artist (active 1804)
- Mary Anne Lothrop1837-1910
- Mary Perkins Watson1860-1917
- Oliver White Peabody1834-1896Boston millionaire
- Peter Thacher1651-17271651-1727 , minister
- Reginald Mansfield Johnson1876-1923
- Roland Hayward1865-1906American entomologist
- Ruby McCormick1891-1981
- Samuel Johnson1860-193216 Jul 1860 - 1932
- Thomas McDonogh1740-1805British consul in Boston 1783-1805
People whose Wikidata entry gives Milton 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 Milton 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
- Cedar Grove CemeteryAshmont, MACemetery1.7 mi
- Dorchester South CemeteryAshmont, MACemetery1.7 mi
- Hall CemeteryQuincy, MACemetery1.7 mi
- Quincy CemeteryMilton, MACemetery2.3 mi
- Codman Burial GroundAshmont, MACemetery2.5 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryDorchester, MACemetery2.7 mi
- New Calvary CemeteryMattapan, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Oaklawn CemeteryClarendon Hills, MACemetery3.0 mi
- Hancock CemeteryQuincy, MACemetery3.0 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryClarendon Hills, MACemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Milton Cemetery
- Keohane Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Quincy · (781) 749-0310
- Dolan Chapman Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Milton · (617) 696-2120
- Alfred D Thomas Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Milton · (617) 696-4200
- Dolan Funeral Homes and Cremation Services1.1 miFuneral home · Milton · (617) 698-6264
- Dolan Funeral Homes and Cremation Services1.3 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 298-8011
- Presidents Monuments Company1.9 miMonument dealer · Quincy · (617) 773-5340
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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