About Hope Cemetery
Hope Cemetery is a cemetery near Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It lies about 2.1 mi northeast of Worcester. The grounds sit at about 528 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 45 notable people buried here, including Robert H. Goddard, Elizabeth Bishop and Abby Kelley Foster. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 601845. The nearest other listed cemetery is Bnai Brith Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the north. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Comfort Cremation in Worcester, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 322 cemeteries we list in Worcester County, and 76 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 9 of the 322 listings in Worcester County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Worcester. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Hope Cemetery
Among them: 4 writers, 3 architects, 3 baseball players, 3 Civil War veterans, 3 inventors and engineers, 3 scientists, 3 US representatives, 2 Medal of Honor recipients.
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicist
- Elizabeth Bishop1911-1979American poet
- Abby Kelley Foster1811-1887American activist
- Edith Marion Patch1876-1954American entomologist
- Eli Thayer1819-1899American politician
- John Bartholomew Gough1817-1886Anglo-American temperance orator
- Samuel Winslow1862-1940American politician
- John A. Thayer1857-1917American politician
- Webster Thayer1857-1933American judge
- George E. Partridge1870-1953American psychologist
- Agnes Ballard1877-1969Architect and educator
- Bruno Haas1891-1952American baseball player
Show all 45 notable burials
- Freeman Brown1845-1916American baseball manager
- John Stevens1824-1881American architect
- Loring Coes1812-1906American inventor and politician
- William True Sleeper1819-1904American clergyman, educator, and hymn-writer
- Art LaVigne1885-1950Baseball player
- Le Roy Phillips1870-1959Publisher
- Ledyard Bill1836-1907American politician, publisher, writer
- Rufus B. Dodge, Jr.1861-1935American mayor
- S. O. Johnson1826-1899American writer
- Stephen Symonds Foster1809-1881American activist
- Thomas Plunkett1841-1885United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Burton Noble Gates1881-1972(1881 - ); B. N. Gates
- Charles H. Pinkham1844-1920United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Ellery Bicknell Crane1836-1925American librarian and historian
- Estelle Pinckney Clough1866-1929Concert singer
- Frederick H. Daniels1853-1913American engineer and corporate director
- Gertrude Clarke Whittall1867-1965American philanthropist
- William A. Bennett1887-1970Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Charles Sanford Knight Jr.1862-1931American businessman
- Daniel Stevens1818-1888Massachusetts business owner
- Edwin T. Marble1827-1910Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Esther Christine Kisk1901-198231 Mar 1901 - 4 Jun 1982
- Frederick Otis Barton1858-1904American dry goods merchant
- George Henry Goodwin Gale1858-1920Gale, George H G; class of 1879
- George Whitefield Phillips1836-1912
- Gleason Harvey MacCullough1895-1956Sc.D. University of Michigan 1932
- Hachadoor Sarkis Demoorjian1885-1926
- Henry Langdon Parker1833-1910Politician in Massachusetts, US
- James M. Drennan1834-1905Deputy sheriff and chief of police in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Jubal Harrington1803-1877
- Mary C. Dodge1861-1949American botanical collector
- Rachel Lowell Lowe1883-1978American botanist and botanical collector
- Thomas Hutchins Dodge1823-1910American lawyer and inventor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Hope 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
42.23752, -71.82660
What Hope 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
- Bnai Brith CemeteryWorcester, MAJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- Saint Johns CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery0.3 mi
- Old Swedish CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Johns CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery0.4 mi
- Notre Dame CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery0.5 mi
- All Faiths Cemetery and CrematoryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery0.6 mi
- Worcester Hebrew CemeteryAuburn, MAJewish cemetery1.8 mi
- Cherry Valley CemeteryLeicester, MACemetery2.5 mi
- Hillside CemeteryAuburn, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Center Burial GroundAuburn, MACemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Hope Cemetery
- Rex Monuments0.4 miMonument dealer · Worcester · (508) 755-4035
- Comfort Cremation0.6 miCremation provider · Worcester · (508) 304-7445
- O'Connor Brothers Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 754-2431
- Alfred Roy & Sons Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 799-2992
- Graham, Putnam, & Mahoney Funeral Parlors1.4 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 754-1717
- Lindquist Lundin Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 755-3784
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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