About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a cemetery near Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan. It lies about 0.7 mi north of Albion. The grounds sit at about 955 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 10 notable people buried here, including Otto Frederick Rohwedder, Deacon McGuire and Henry Slade. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 635983. The nearest other listed cemetery is Albion Memory Gardens Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is J Kevin Tidd Funeral Home in Albion, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 76 cemeteries we list in Calhoun County, and 36 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 76 listings in Calhoun County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Albion. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 2 inventors and engineers, 2 writers, 1 artist, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 baseball player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 journalist, 1 US representative.
- Otto Frederick Rohwedder1880-1960American manufacturer (1880-1960); inventor of first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use
- Deacon McGuire1863-1936American baseball player and coach
- Henry Slade1835-1905American spiritualist
- Washington Gardner1845-1928Union United States Army soldier
- Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor1792-1879Anti-Slavery Baptist minister
- Joseph Duckworth1902-1964American aviator
- William Henry Harrison Beadle1838-1915American administrator
- Lewis R. Fiske1825-1901American academic
- Gwen Dew1903-1993American writer, journalist, and photographer
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverside 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
42.23364, -84.75247
What Riverside 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
- Albion Memory Gardens CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery1.3 mi
- Bryant - Ketchum CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery2.7 mi
- Bath Mills Cemetery1000 Bath Mills Road, Albion, MICemetery2.9 mi
- Bryant CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery2.9 mi
- Wright CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery3.3 mi
- Graham CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery3.6 mi
- Davis CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery4.0 mi
- South Albion CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery4.3 mi
- Reed Family CemeteryAlbion, MIFamily cemetery5.0 mi
- East Eckford CemeteryAlbion, MICemetery5.0 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- J Kevin Tidd Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Albion · (517) 629-9155
- J. Kevin Tidd Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Albion · (517) 629-7050
- Lauer Family Funeral Home6.7 miFuneral home · Concord · (517) 524-8224
- Kempf Family Funeral and Cremation Services6.9 miCremation provider · Homer · (517) 568-3030
- J.L. Watson Funeral Chapel8.2 miFuneral chapel · Parma · (517) 531-4530
- Springport Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Springport · (517) 857-4848
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