About Fairview Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery near Readville, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 128 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 11 notable people buried here, including Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Thomas Menino and John Joseph Enneking. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 598793. The nearest other listed cemetery is Adath Jeshurun Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Folsom Funeral Home in Dedham, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 130 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, Readville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Fairview Cemetery
Among them: 2 artists, 1 baseball player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 journalist, 1 physician, 1 writer.
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler1831-1895American physician
- Thomas Menino1942-201453rd mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- John Joseph Enneking1841-1916American artist
- Henry B. Carrington1824-1912Union Army General
- William Monroe Trotter1872-1934American newspaper founder, African-American civil rights activist
- Adolph Robert Kraus1850-1901German-American sculptor
- James Monroe Trotter1842-1892American black pioneer
- Stan Yerkes1874-1940American baseball player
- Maude Trotter Steward1875-1955American newspaper publisher
- Charles Steward1870-1967American dentist and newspaper publisher
- Virginia Isaacs Trotter1842-1919
People whose Wikidata entry gives Fairview 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 Fairview 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
- Adath Jeshurun CemeteryWest Roxbury, MAJewish cemetery1.0 mi
- Jeshurun Street CemeteriesWest Roxbury, MAJewish cemetery1.0 mi
- Grove Street Jewish CemeteriesWest Roxbury, MAJewish cemetery1.0 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryWest Roxbury, MAChristian cemetery1.1 mi
- Brookdale CemeteryDedham, MACemetery1.1 mi
- Centre Street Memorial Park CemeteriesWest Roxbury, MAMemorial park1.5 mi
- Village CemeteryDedham, MAMunicipal cemetery1.9 mi
- Pine Ridge Pet CemeteryWest Roxbury, MAPet cemetery2.4 mi
- Oaklawn CemeteryClarendon Hills, MACemetery2.5 mi
- Westerly Burying GroundHighland, MACemetery2.5 mi
Funeral homes near Fairview Cemetery
- Folsom Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Dedham · (781) 326-0022
- Carroll-Thomas Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Hyde Park · (617) 361-0380
- Doherty Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Dedham · (781) 326-0500
- George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Dedham
- Kfoury Keefe Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 325-3600
- Gormley Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · West Roxbury · (617) 323-8600
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