About Harmony Grove Cemetery
Harmony Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.7 mi west of Peabody. The grounds sit at about 95 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 115 notable people buried here, including Margaret Abbott, George Peabody and Frank Weston Benson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 600681. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old South Trask Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ruggiero Family Memorial Home North Shore Chapel in Peabody, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 244 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 136 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Essex County dates to 1820. 3 of the 244 listings in Essex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Peabody. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery
Among them: 13 writers, 6 US representatives, 5 artists, 4 business leaders, 4 journalists, 3 architects, 3 Civil War veterans, 3 physicians.
- Margaret Abbott1876-1955American golfer
- George Peabody1795-1869American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Frank Weston Benson1862-1951American painter
- Frederick Townsend Ward1831-1862American general
- Edward S. Morse1838-1925American zoologist and anthropologist
- William Crowninshield Endicott1826-1900American politician and judge
- Laura de Force Gordon1838-1907American activist and lawyer
- Leverett Saltonstall1892-1979Politician and United States Army officer 1892-1979
- Charles Wentworth Upham1802-1875American politician
- Nathaniel Silsbee1773-1850American politician
- James Miller1776-1851American politician (1776-1851); governor of Arkansas Territory from 1819 to 1824
- William Frederick Poole1821-1894American bibliographer and librarian
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- Arlo Bates1850-1918American writer
- Jacob Crowninshield1770-1808American politician
- John Prentiss Benson1865-1947American architect and painter
- Leverett Saltonstall I1783-1845American politician 1783-1845
- William Cogswell1838-1895Union Army general
- Charles Lenox Remond1810-1873American abolitionist, lecturer and civil rights activist
- George B. Loring1817-1891American politician
- George Burnham Ives1856-1930American bibliographer, editor, and translator
- Harriet Bates1856-1886American writer
- James Armstrong1794-1868United States Navy officer 1794-1868
- Wayland Hoyt1838-1910American Baptist Minister
- Bayard Tuckerman Jr.1889-1974American jockey and politician
- Maxim Karolik1893-1963Russian-born American opera singer and art collector
- Raymond L. Newcomb1849-1918American astronomer
- Charles H. Foster1833-1885American spiritualist medium
- Daniel Appleton White1776-1861American politician and lawyer, Massachusetts
- George Punchard1806-1880American writer
- Joseph Peabody1757-1844American businessman
- Luis F. Emilio1844-1918Union Army officer
- Richard R. Peabody1892-1936American writer
- Thomas Treadwell Stone1801-1895American theologian
- Albert D. Bosson1853-1926American judge
- Caroline Emmerton1866-1942American preservationist
- E. Bruno de Gersdorff1820-1883German-American homoeopathic physician
- George H. Emerson1822-1898American Universalist clergyman
- George Merwangee White1849-1915American artist
- George Swinnerton Parker1866-1952American businessman
- Joseph Warren Fabens1821-1875American diplomat
- Judith Walker Andrews1826-1914American philanthropist, social reformer
- Leverett Saltonstall II1825-1895American politician and lawyer
- Louis Cornish1870-1950American Unitarian leader
- Nathaniel Silsbee Jr.1804-1881American politician
- Robert S. Rantoul1832-1922American politician
- Samuel Endicott Peabody1825-1909American merchant and banker
- Timothy Flint1780-1840American missionary and author
- Abner Cheney Goodell1831-1914
- Caleb Foote1803-1894American publisher and editor
- Charles A. Beckford1834-1924American stereo card publisher
- Fitch Poole1803-1873American writer
- Francis Peabody1801-1867American merchant, founder of the Essex Institute, and amateur architect 1801-1867
- Francis Peabody1854-1938American lawyer
- Henry Wheatland1812-1893American naturalist and educator
- Henry Wilder Foote1838-1889American clergyman
- John Bertram1796-1882American sea captain, businessman and philanthropist
- John S. Moulton1849-1914American photographer (ca. 1849-1914)
- Lincoln Flagg Brigham1819-1895American judge
- Richard Saltonstall Rogers1790-1873East Indies merchant & Salem politician
- Roger Irving Lee1881-1965American physician
- Sidney Perley1858-1928American writer, lawyer and historian
- Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwightborn 1846American librarian, archivist, and diplomat
- William Dummer Northend1823-1902American lawyer and politician
- William S. Messervy1812-1886American trader and politician
- Albert Gallatin Browne, Jr.1835-1891Journalist and abolitionist
- 1793-1856
- Arthur Wesley Sim1859-1929Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Augustus Neal Rantoul1865-1934American architect (1865-1934) of Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul firm
- Brown Emerson1778-1872American pastor
- Bruce Lancaster1896-1963American diplomat, journalist and novelist
- Caleb Foote1917-2006American legal scholar and pacifist organizer
- Caroline Choate1834-18891834 - 1889
- Caroline Saunders Saltonstall1793-1882
- Clara Millet Bertram1838-1920Heiress
- Clarissa Endicott Peabody1807-1892
- Elisha Mack1783-1862Student/LLS/1805/profession:Lawyer; Political Office/born:1783/died:1862
- Elizabeth Maude Masson Lanier1868-1961
- Ellen M. Fogg1826-1908American translator, editor, and clubwoman
- Ellen Peabody Endicott1833-1927Wife of William C. Endicott
- Ephraim Emmerton1791-1877
- Francis Peabody Jr.1831-19101831 -
- George Augustus Parker1820-1877Bef. 19 May 1822 - est. 1877
- George Augustus Peabody1831-192923 Aug 1831 - 3 May 1929
- George Benson Weston1874-1959American academic
- George Lee Peabody1865-1911American banker
- George Peabody1804-1892
- George R. Emmerton1836-1888Wealthy Salem merchant
- Henry Bozyol Hill1823-1913Politician in Massachusetts, US (b. 1823)
- Herbert Leslie Burrell1856-1910American surgeon
- James Langdon Hill1848-1931American clergyman
- John Endicott Peabody1853-1921
- John Lee Saltonstall1878-1959Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Joseph Andrews1808-1869Mayor of Salem
- Joseph N. Ashton (1868-1946)1868-1946Music professor and organist
- Josephine Lee Murray1921-2012American pediatrician, hospital practitioner & philanthropist
- Josiah Perkins Creesy1814-18711814-1871 , sea captain
- Lawrence Waters Jenkins1872-1961Museum curator and administrator
- Marianne Cabot Devereux Silsbee1812-1899
- Mary Jane Bertram1837-1912Millionaire heiress
- Mary Wilder Foote1810-18571810-1857
- Matthew Adams Stickney1805-1894Born 1805; died 1894
- Oscar Jackson Ives1881-1966
- Richard J. Cleveland1773-1860
- Ruth Hurd1784-18741784-1874
- Stephen Bradshaw Ives1827-1884American lawyer
- Stephen Bradshaw Ives1801-1883American publisher and legislator
- Stephen Willard Phillips1873-1955American lawyer and historian
- William Balch Parker1771-184428 Apr 1772 - 1 May 1844
- William Crowninshield Endicott1860-1936Lawyer and writer from the US
- William Dudley Pickman1819-1890Shipping merchant Boston
- William Gibbons Rantoul1867-1949American architect
- William Putnam Endicott1803-1888
- Zachariah F. Silsbee1783-1873
People whose Wikidata entry gives Harmony Grove 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.
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What Harmony Grove 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 South Trask CemeteryPeabody, MACemetery0.3 mi
- Monumental CemeteryPeabody, MACemetery0.5 mi
- Prescott Memorial CemeteryPeabody, MACemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryPeabody, MACemetery0.6 mi
- Greenlawn CemeterySalem, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Friends Burial Ground Quaker Cemetary396 1/2 Essex Street, Salem, MAQuaker cemetery0.7 mi
- Wilson CemeteryPeabody, MACemetery0.9 mi
- Broad Street CemeterySalem, MACemetery1.0 mi
- Howard Street CemeterySalem, MACemetery1.1 mi
- Charter Street CemeterySalem, MACemetery1.2 mi
Funeral homes near Harmony Grove Cemetery
- Ruggiero Family Memorial Home North Shore Chapel0.7 miFuneral home · Peabody · (978) 595-3949
- Conway Cahill-brodeur Funeral Home & Cremation Care0.7 miFuneral home · Peabody · (978) 531-0472
- Murphy Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Salem · (978) 744-0497
- Levesque Funeral Home Inc1.4 miFuneral home · Salem · (978) 744-2270
- O'Donnell Cremations Funerals Celebrations1.4 miCremation provider · Salem · (978) 744-2350
- Berube & Sons Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Salem · (978) 744-2177
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