About Woodbrook Cemetery
Woodbrook Cemetery is a cemetery near Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 148 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 15 notable people buried here, including Benjamin Champney, Benjamin Franklin Whittemore and John Martyn Harlow. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 603173. The nearest other listed cemetery is First Burial Ground, about 0.5 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home in Woburn, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 172 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Woburn. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Woodbrook Cemetery
Among them: 2 artists, 2 writers, 1 actor, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 business leader, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician, 1 physician.
- Benjamin Champney1817-1907United States landscape and still-life painter
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore1824-1894Union Army chaplain and politician
- John Martyn Harlow1819-1907American physician
- Fred Foy1921-2010American actor
- Betsey Ann Stearns1830-1914American dressmaker inventor, school founder, author
- John Cummings1812-1898American businessman, politician in Massachusetts
- Wilbur R. Kimball1863-1940Aviation pioneer
- William Richard Cutter1847-1918American historian and writer
- Berenice Wyer1873-1960American pianist and composer
- Carrie Farnsworth Fowle1854-1917American missionary
- Edward C. Dana1852-1897American photographer
- Abijah Thompson1793-1868American manufacturer and military officer
Show all 15 notable burials
- Daniel March1816-1909Born 1816; died 1909
- Edward Francis Johnson1856-1922American lawyer and politician
- Montressor Tyler Allen1845-1897Politician in Massachusetts, US
People whose Wikidata entry gives Woodbrook 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 Woodbrook 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
- First Burial GroundWoburn, MACemetery0.5 mi
- Second Burial GroundWoburn, MACemetery0.6 mi
- Beth Joseph II CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.3 mi
- Beth David CemeteryWoburn, MAJewish cemetery1.3 mi
- Meretz CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.3 mi
- Beth Joseph I CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.3 mi
- Congregation Anshi Poland CemeteryWoburn, MAChurch cemetery1.3 mi
- Montefiore CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- Chebra Kadisha of Chelsea CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
- South Boston Lodge CemeteryWoburn, MACemetery1.4 mi
Funeral homes near Woodbrook Cemetery
- Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-0400
- McLaughlin Dello Russo Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-0083
- Arthur P. Graham Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Woburn
- Graham Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Woburn · (781) 933-1324
- Marashio Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Woburn
- University Monument Works1.3 miMonument dealer · Woburn · (617) 547-2040
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