Rural Cemetery & Crematory in Worcester, Massachusetts
Also known as Rural Cemetery and Crematory
About Rural Cemetery & Crematory
Rural Cemetery & Crematory is a cemetery near Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It lies about 1.2 mi south of Worcester. Wikidata records 94 notable people buried here, including Fanny Bullock Workman, Levi Lincoln Sr. and Levi Lincoln, Jr.. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Johns Cemetery, about 2.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Athy Memorial Home in Worcester, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 322 cemeteries we list in Worcester County, and 74 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 Rural Cemetery & Crematory
Among them: 14 US representatives, 9 physicians, 8 business leaders, 7 writers, 4 governors, 3 artists, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 inventors and engineers.
- Fanny Bullock Workman1859-1925American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer
- Levi Lincoln Sr.1749-1820United States attorney general and acting governor of Massachusetts
- Levi Lincoln, Jr.1782-1868Massachusetts Governor and Congressman
- Alexander Bullock1816-1882American politician
- John Davis1787-1854Massachusetts congressman and governor
- Howard Petrie1906-1968Actor
- Charles Grenfill Washburn1857-1928American politician, Massachusetts
- Isaiah Thomas1749-1831Massachusetts printer, publisher and journalist
- William Whitney Rice1826-1896American politician, Massachusetts
- Edith Ella Baldwin1870-1920American painter, craftswoman, and writer
- John Denison Baldwin1809-1883American politician, Connecticut
- John R. Thayer1845-1916American politician, Massachusetts
Show all 94 notable burials
- Rockwood Hoar1855-1906American politician
- Charles Allen1797-1869American politician from Massachusetts
- George Hubbard Blakeslee1871-1954American professor of history and international relations
- Ginery Twichell1811-1883American politician
- Helen M. Knowlton1832-1918American artist, instructor and author
- Joseph Henry Walker1829-1907Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Lucius E. Pinkham1850-1922Fourth Territorial Governor of Hawaii
- Samuel Swett Green1837-1918American librarian
- Stephen Salisbury III1835-1905American philanthropist, politician in Massachusetts
- William Hunter Workman1847-1937American author
- Abijah Bigelow1775-1860American politician
- Andrew Haswell Green1820-1903New York City civic leader and local politician
- Benjamin Dwight Allen1831-1914Composer, organist
- George Crompton1829-1886American inventor
- George R. Stobbs1877-1966American politician
- Henry Chapin1811-1878American politician 1811-1878
- Joseph Allen1749-1827American politician
- Augustus B. R. Sprague1827-1910American mayor
- Dwight Foster1828-1884American judge
- George B. Boomer1832-1863Union Army colonel
- Isaac Davis1799-1883American lawyer and politician 1799-1883
- Wilson Dallam Wallis1886-1970Anthropologist
- Elizabeth Davis Bancroft1803-18861803
- George Hull Ward1826-1863Union Army Officer
- Hasbrouck Davis1827-1870American general
- Henry A. Marsh1836-1914American mayor
- James B. Blake1827-1870American politician
- John Milton Earle1794-1874British publisher
- Robert H. Chamberlain1838-1910American law enforcement officer and politician
- Caleb A. Wall1820-1898American journalist and historian
- Daniel Waldo Lincoln1813-1880American politician
- Edwin Conant1810-1891American businessman
- Harry Worcester Smith1865-1945American businessman
- Helen Fidelia Draper1871-1951American Red Cross worker
- John Green1835-1913American ophthalmologist, 1835-1913
- John Woodman Higgins1874-1961American steel magnate and museum founder
- Lemuel Fox Woodward1857-1931American surgeon and city physician
- Livingston Davis1882-1932American Consul for Belgium
- Mark Huntington Higgins1940-1960American student who worked for Albert Schweitzer
- Samuel Bayard Woodward1853-1946American physician
- Stephen Salisbury I1746-1829American businessman
- Stephen Salisbury II1798-1884US businessman, politician, art collector and philanthropist
- Abbie Fay Day1855-1926American botanical collector
- Albert Sutton Richey1874-1936American professor of electrical engineering
- Alfred Stamm Pinkerton1856-1922Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Charles L. Nichols1851-1929American physician 1851-1929
- Cornelia Antoinette Taft1823-1909American botanical collector
- Delano Alexander Goddard1831-1882Politician in Massachusetts
- Edmund Mills Barton1838-1918American librarian
- Eliza Bancroft1791-1872
- Elizabeth Waldo Draper1841-1869
- Elizabeth Waldo Kinnicutt1817-1891
- Emily Whitney Sargent1843-1892American botanical collector
- Francis Henshaw Dewey1821-1887Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Frank Bulkeley Smith1864-1918American lawyer and businessman
- George Chandler1806-18931806-1893
- Henry Martyn Wheeler1830-1917American genealogist
- James Edward Estabrook1829-1915American politician
- John Green1763-1808American physician
- John Green1736-1799American physician 1736-1799
- John Green III1784-1865American physician
- John Jay Putnam1823-1913American clergyman, businessman, and writer
- John Stanton Baldwin1834-1909Politician in Massachusetts, US (b. 1834)
- John Stiles1777-1836American politician
- Josephine Rose Chandler1815-1866
- Julia M. Baker1830-1915American educator and clubwoman
- Katherine Pratt1875-19421875-1942
- Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt1849-1921American businessman and writer
- Lydia Stiles Foster1806-1887
- Maria Louisa Robbins Davis1843-1916
- Martha Esty Michie1921-1998American art collector
- Martha Parker1785-182219 Oct 1785 - certain 19 Apr 1822
- Nathaniel Paine1832-1917American antiquarian
- Otis Putnam1831-1911American businessman
- Russell L. Hawes1823-1867Inventor, automatic envelope folding machine
- Samuel M'Gregore Burnside1783-1850Lawyer
- Sarah McKean Hilliard Pratt1840-1897
- Sophia Dwight Foster Burnside1787-187130 Jul 1787 - 3 Jan 1871
- Waldo Lincoln1849-1933American businessman
- Wallace W. Robbins1910-1988
- William Henry Dexter1823-1912Philanthropist in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- William Sever Lincoln1811-188922 Nov 1811 - 8 Nov 1889
People whose Wikidata entry gives Rural Cemetery & Crematory 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
42.28067, -71.80253
What Rural Cemetery & Crematory 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 Johns CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery2.8 mi
- Bnai Brith CemeteryWorcester, MAJewish cemetery3.0 mi
- Saint Johns CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery3.2 mi
- Hope CemeteryWorcester, MACemetery3.2 mi
- Old Swedish CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery3.3 mi
- Notre Dame CemeteryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery3.6 mi
- All Faiths Cemetery and CrematoryWorcester, MAChristian cemetery3.8 mi
- Hillside CemeteryShrewsbury, MACemetery4.1 mi
- South CemeteryShrewsbury, MACemetery4.6 mi
- Mountain View Cemetery15 Church Road, Shrewsbury, MACemetery4.6 mi
Funeral homes near Rural Cemetery & Crematory
- Athy Memorial Home0.3 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 756-4689
- Kelly Cremation & Funeral Care0.4 miCremation provider · Worcester · (508) 755-4507
- Nordgren Memorial Chapel0.8 miFuneral chapel · Worcester · (508) 852-2161
- Bishop Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 752-4000
- Callahan Fay Caswell Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 755-1500
- Rice Funeral Home LLC1.6 miFuneral home · Worcester · (508) 754-1673
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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