Forest Hills Cemetery in Roslindale, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery is a cemetery near Roslindale, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It lies about 1.0 mi west of Roslindale. Wikidata records 358 notable people buried here, including Eugene O'Neill, Emily Greene Balch and E. E. Cummings. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Michael Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Brady & Fallon Funeral Service Inc in Boston, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 132 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, Roslindale. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 52 writers, 21 business leaders, 19 artists, 17 physicians, 16 US representatives, 13 Civil War veterans, 12 actors, 12 architects.

• Eugene O'Neill1888-1953
  American playwright
• Emily Greene Balch1867-1961
  American economist and writer
• E. E. Cummings1894-1962
  American author
• George Kennedy1925-2016
  American actor
• George Minot1885-1950
  American physician
• Anne Sexton1928-1974
  American poet
• Samuel Langley1834-1906
  American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian
• William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879
  American journalist and abolitionist
• Lucy Stone1818-1893
  American abolitionist and suffragist
• Ellery Harding Clark1874-1949
  American track and field athlete
• Lysander Spooner1808-1887
  American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century
• Alexander Agassiz1835-1910
  Swiss-American zoologist and engineer

People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Hills 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.

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.

• Saint Michael Cemetery

  500 Canterbury Street, Boston, MA
  Cemetery

  0.5 mi
• Tollgate Cemetery

  Roslindale, MA
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Mount Hope Cemetery

  Roslindale, MA
  Cemetery

  0.8 mi
• New Calvary Cemetery

  Mattapan, MA
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Mount Calvary Cemetery

  Clarendon Hills, MA
  Cemetery

  1.2 mi
• Walter Street Burying Ground

  Roslindale, MA
  Cemetery

  1.2 mi
• Saint Mary's Cemetery

  Dorchester, MA
  Cemetery

  1.3 mi
• Oaklawn Cemetery

  Clarendon Hills, MA
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Codman Burial Ground

  Ashmont, MA
  Cemetery

  1.6 mi
• Walnut Hills Cemetery

  Bellevue, MA
  Cemetery

  2.2 mi

• Brady & Fallon Funeral Service Inc

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 524-0861
  0.5 mi
• Joseph Russo Funeral Home Inc

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 325-7300
  1.1 mi
• Davis Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Mattapan · (617) 296-1755
  1.6 mi
• Riley-Antoine Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 427-5625
  1.6 mi
• George Lopes Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Mattapan · (617) 298-3432
  1.8 mi
• Mann and Rodgers Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 522-2500
  1.9 mi

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