About Stockbridge Cemetery
Stockbridge Cemetery is a cemetery near Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 837 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 53 notable people buried here, including Norman Rockwell, Reinhold Niebuhr and Cyrus West Field. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 598697. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Josephs Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kelly Funeral Home in Lee, about 3.8 mi away. It is one of 118 cemeteries we list in Berkshire County, and 34 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Berkshire County dates to 1758. 5 of the 118 listings in Berkshire County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Stockbridge. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Stockbridge Cemetery
Among them: 9 writers, 6 US representatives, 3 artists, 3 journalists, 2 architects, 2 business leaders, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Norman Rockwell1894-1978American painter and illustrator
- Reinhold Niebuhr1892-1971American Protestant theologian
- Cyrus West Field1819-1892American businessman
- Francis James Child1825-1896American folklorist
- Elizabeth Freeman1744-1829American former slave and abolitionist
- Theodore Sedgwick1746-1813American politician
- Robert Underwood Johnson1853-1937American journalist
- David Dudley Field II1805-1894American politician
- Ogden Rood1831-1902American physicist
- Henry Martyn Field1822-1907American author and clergyman
- Joan Kennedy Taylor1926-2005American journalist
- Richard Rogers Bowker1848-1933American publisher, editor, journalist
Show all 53 notable burials
- Allen T. Treadway1867-1947American politician
- David Dudley Field I1781-1867American clergyman and historian
- Henry W. Dwight1788-1845American politician
- Holger Cahill1887-1960Iceland-born American curator
- John Z. Goodrich1804-1885American politician
- Charles Astor Bristed1820-1874American scholar and author
- George Henry Seeley1880-1955American photographer
- John Bacon1738-1820American politician, Massachusetts
- Augustus Lukeman1872-1935American artist
- Joseph H. Choate Jr.1876-1968United States lawyer
- Agrippa Hull1759-1848Continental Army soldier
- John Putnam1917-1980American comics writer
- Charles Chauncey Dwight1830-1902(1830-1902) former New York Supreme Court justice
- Frederick W. Whitridge1852-1916American businessman
- Lyman Beecher Stowe1880-1963American author
- Mabel Choate1870-1958American gardener, collector and philanthropist
- Robert P. Knight1902-1966American psychoanalyst
- Josiah Brewer1796-1872American minister and author
- William Dwight Sedgwick1831-1862American military officer
- Amy Gore Walker Iasigi1858-1927
- Archibald Hopkins1766-1839
- Bernhard Hoffmann1874-1949
- Charles Edward Butler1818-1897NYC lawyer
- Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight1801-18641801-1864
- Elizabeth Goldthwait1735-1821
- Emilia Field Brewer1807-1861Student/LFA/1826/profession:Educator/born:1807/died:1861
- Frances Sedgwick Watson1778-18426 May 1778 - 20 Jun 1842
- Geoffrey Platt1905-1985American architect
- George Bruno deGersdorff1866-1964
- Helen Suzette Crowninshield1868-1941(28 Jul 1868 - certain 1941)
- Henry Dwight Sedgwick1928-2018American businessman
- Henry Dwight Sedgwick1824-1903American lawyer and writer
- Huldah Hopkins Field1804-1887
- John Sergeant Hopkins1771-1815
- Jonathan Edwards Field1813-1868American lawyer and politician
- Lilian Louisa Butler Swann1852-1929Millionaire
- Lucinda Hopkins Field1806-1836Student/LFA/1827/profession:/born:1806/died:1836
- Mary Hopkins Goodrich1814-1895American university trustee
- Mary Leete Punderson1896-1985American teacher
- Submit Dickinson Field1782-1861
- Theodore Sedgwick Pomeroy1798-1845
People whose Wikidata entry gives Stockbridge 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 Stockbridge 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
- Saint Josephs CemeteryStockbridge, MACemetery0.2 mi
- Congregation of the Marian Fathers CemeteryStockbridge, MACatholic cemetery0.6 mi
- South Lee CemeteryStockbridge, MACemetery2.1 mi
- Rockdale CemeteryHousatonic, MACemetery2.9 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryLee, MACemetery3.3 mi
- Fairmont CemeteryLee, MACemetery4.3 mi
- West Center CemeteryWest Stockbridge, MACemetery4.5 mi
- West Stockbridge CemeteryWest Stockbridge, MACemetery5.3 mi
- Saint Anns CemeteryLenox, MACemetery5.4 mi
- Saint Patricks CemeteryWest Stockbridge, MACemetery5.6 mi
Funeral homes near Stockbridge Cemetery
- Kelly Funeral Home3.8 miFuneral home · Lee · (413) 243-0204
- Roche Funeral Home5.5 miFuneral home · Lenox · (413) 637-0699
- Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · Great Barrington · (413) 528-1900
- Birches-Roy Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · Great Barrington · (413) 528-3080
- Dwyer-Wellington Family Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Pittsfield · (413) 445-4064
- Flynn & Dagnoli-bencivenga Funeral Homes12 miFuneral home · Pittsfield · (413) 442-1733
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