About Walnut Hill Cemetery
Walnut Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near West Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. It lies about 1.0 mi northwest of West Newbury. The grounds sit at about 154 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 4 notable people buried here, including Benjamin Perley Poore, Gerrish Newell and Moses Newell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 600769. The nearest other listed cemetery is Almshouse Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Conte-Giamberardino Funeral Home in Georgetown, about 4.6 mi away. It is one of 244 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 98 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, West Newbury. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Walnut Hill Cemetery
Among them: 1 football player, 1 journalist, 1 musician, 1 writer.
- Benjamin Perley Poore1820-1887American newspaper editor
- Gerrish Newell1873-1941American football player and coach
- Moses Newell1793-1858American farmer and politician
- Verna Hills1898-1990American songwriter
People whose Wikidata entry gives Walnut Hill 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
42.79036, -70.97589
What Walnut Hill 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
- Almshouse CemeteryWest Newbury, MACemetery0.8 mi
- Rural CemeteryWest Newbury, MACemetery1.5 mi
- Bridge Street CemeteryWest Newbury, MACemetery1.5 mi
- Merrimack CemeteryWest Newbury, MACemetery1.6 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryWest Newbury, MACemetery2.2 mi
- Quaker CemeteryNewburyport, MAQuaker cemetery2.5 mi
- Riverview CemeteryGroveland, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Locust Grove CemeteryMerrimac, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Children of Israel CemeteryHaverhill, MACemetery3.0 mi
- Walnut CemeteryHaverhill, MACemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Walnut Hill Cemetery
- A & A Monuments3.2 miMonument dealer · Merrimac · (978) 384-3858
- Conte-Giamberardino Funeral Home4.6 miFuneral home · Georgetown · (978) 352-8700
- Paul C Rogers & Sons Funeral Homes4.6 miFuneral home · Amesbury · (978) 388-0288
- H. L. Farmer & Sons Funeral Homes5.0 miFuneral home · Haverhill · (978) 372-9311
- Twomey, LeBlanc, & Conte Funeral Home5.1 miFuneral home · Newburyport · (978) 465-9323
- Paul C. Rogers Family Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Haverhill · (978) 373-3281
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