About Hillside Cemetery
Hillside Cemetery is a cemetery near Monson, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 463 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including Samuel Robbins Brown, Hazel E. Munsell and Emma Louise Orcutt. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 602421. The nearest other listed cemetery is North Main Street Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lombard Funeral Home in Monson, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 103 cemeteries we list in Hampden County, and 43 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hampden County dates to 1677. 2 of the 103 listings in Hampden County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Monson. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Hillside Cemetery
Among them: 2 physicians, 1 scientist, 1 writer.
- Samuel Robbins Brown1810-1880American missionary
- Hazel E. Munsell1891-1989Nutrition chemist
- Emma Louise Orcutt1844-1924US author of a Lost Race novel, The Divine Seal (1909)
- John Prentice Rand1857-1923American physician
- Nehemiah Wheeler Rand1853-1898American physician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Hillside 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
42.10939, -72.32008
What Hillside 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
- North Main Street CemeteryMonson, MACemetery0.3 mi
- Bethany CemeteryMonson, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Main Street CemeteryMonson, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Grouts CemeteryMonson Center, MACemetery2.2 mi
- Moulton Hill CemeteryMonson Center, MACemetery3.5 mi
- Oak Knoll CemeteryPalmer, MACemetery3.6 mi
- Glendale CemeteryWilbraham, MA · est. 1963Cemetery4.0 mi
- Butler CemeteryHampden, MACemetery4.5 mi
- Saint Thomas CemeteryPalmer, MACemetery4.8 mi
- East Wilbraham CemeteryThree Rivers, MACemetery4.8 mi
Funeral homes near Hillside Cemetery
- Lombard Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Monson · (413) 267-3011
- Beers & Story Funeral Homes3.5 miFuneral home · Palmer · (413) 216-0182
- Motyka Funeral Home5.4 miFuneral home · Three Rivers · (413) 283-7111
- Wilbraham Funeral Home6.6 miFuneral home · Wilbraham · (413) 596-6100
- Ludlow Funeral Home8.5 miFuneral home · Ludlow · (413) 583-3575
- Sampson's Chapel of the Acres8.7 miFuneral chapel · Springfield · (413) 782-5226
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