About Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery near Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Wikidata records 19 notable people buried here, including Marcus Morton, Darius N. Couch and Edmund H. Bennett. The nearest other listed cemetery is Neck of Land Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home in Taunton, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 206 cemeteries we list in Bristol County, and 103 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Bristol County dates to 1705. 33 of the 206 listings in Bristol County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Taunton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Among them: 4 US representatives, 2 Civil War veterans, 1 business leader, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 journalist, 1 Mexican-American War veteran, 1 scientist.
- Marcus Morton1784-1864Massachusetts Democratic governor and Supreme Judicial Court associate justice
- Darius N. Couch1822-1897Soldier, businessman, and naturalist from the United States
- Edmund H. Bennett1824-1898American mayor and judge
- Samuel L. Crocker1804-1883American politician
- Henry Williams1805-1887American politician in Massachusetts
- William Croade Lovering1835-1910Union Army officer, politician
- Chester I. Reed1823-1873American politician in Massachusetts
- Francis Babbitt1843-1917American politician
- William Mason1808-1883American mechanical engineer
- Charles Swasey1839-1862United States Navy officer
- Lucien Ira Blake1856-1916Professor of physics
- Mortimer Blake1813-1884American clergyman and writer
Show all 19 notable burials
- Samuel Hopkins Emery1815-1901American minister and historian
- Sylvanus N. Staples1811-1893American businessman
- Willard Lovering1801-1875
- Frederick Stanley Hall1861-1927Politician and judge in Massachusetts, US
- James Bradford Richmond Walker1821-188515 Apr 1821 - 24 Jan 1885
- James Lewis Austin1851-1916Politician in Massachusetts, US
- William Reed Jr.1842-1913Politician, publisher in Massachusetts, US
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant 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
- Neck of Land CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Plain CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery1.2 mi
- Westville CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery1.8 mi
- Mayflower Hill CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Mary's Catholic CemeteryTaunton, MACatholic cemetery1.9 mi
- Walker - Blake GraveyardBerkley, MACemetery2.0 mi
- St. Francis CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery2.0 mi
- Saint Francis Old CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery2.0 mi
- Saint Josephs CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery2.0 mi
- Mount Nebo CemeteryTaunton, MACemetery2.0 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Pleasant Cemetery
- Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Taunton · (508) 822-3318
- O'Keefe-Wade Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Taunton · (508) 823-3371
- Silva Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Taunton · (508) 822-0081
- Taunton Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Taunton · (508) 821-7771
- Sowiecki-Snyder Home for Funerals & Cremation Services1.7 miCremation provider · Taunton · (508) 824-9881
- Riendeau-Mulvey Funeral Home and "Memorial Cremation"2.0 miFuneral home · Taunton · (508) 822-4151
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
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