About Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The grounds sit at about 899 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 108 notable people buried here, including Charles Cooley, Leslie White and Rensis Likert. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 626260. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Andrew's Memorial Cloister Garden, about 0.8 mi to the west. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Muehlig Funeral Chapel in Ann Arbor, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 112 cemeteries we list in Washtenaw County, and 54 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 3 of the 112 listings in Washtenaw County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Forest Hill Cemetery
Among them: 13 scientists, 11 writers, 5 artists, 4 physicians, 4 US representatives, 3 football players, 3 inventors and engineers, 3 journalists.
- Charles Cooley1864-1929American sociologist
- Leslie White1900-1975American anthropologist
- Rensis Likert1903-1981American statistician
- Scott Asheton1949-2014American drummer
- Emmett Leith1927-2005American physicist and engineer
- Alexander Winchell1824-1891U.S. geologist and paleontologist
- Henry Carter Adams1851-1921U.S. economist and Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan
- Eva Jessye1895-1992American conductor
- Alpheus Felch1804-1896American politician
- Robert P. Lamont1867-1948American politician
- Thomas Francis, Jr.1900-1969American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist
- James Burrill Angell1829-1916American diplomat
Show all 108 notable burials
- Lamberto Cesari1910-1990Italian mathematician
- Effie Almira Southworth1860-1947American botanist
- Henry F. Thomas1843-1912American politician
- Thomas M. Cooley1824-1898American judge
- Charles Ezra Greene1842-1903Union Army officer
- Fred M. Taylor1855-1932American economist
- William H. Payne1836-1907American translator
- Bradley F. Granger1825-1882American politician
- Don Lund1923-2013American baseball player and coach
- Erich Rothe1895-1988German mathematician
- Fielding H. Yost1871-1946American college football player and coach (1871-1946); College Football Hall of Fame member
- Francis Kelsey1858-1927American classical philologist and archaeologist
- George Meader1907-1994American politician
- Mary Wood-Allen1841-1908American doctor, social reformer, lecturer, and writer
- Samuel Beakes1861-1927American politician
- Thomas Tyra1933-1995Composer, Arranger, Bandmaster, Music Educator
- Clara Doty Bates1838-1895American author, poet
- Cy Warman1855-1914American writer
- Martin Luther D’Ooge1839-1915American classical philologist
- Theodore Wesley Koch1871-1941American librarian
- Thomas A. Bogle, Jr.1890-1955American football player and coach
- Victor Clarence Vaughan1851-1929American physician and bacteriologist
- Benjamin Franklin Bailey1875-1954American engineer
- Bo Schembechler1929-2006American college football player and coach, sports administrator
- Bob Ufer1920-1981American track and field athlete, radio broadcaster
- Eliza R. Sunderland1839-1910American writer, educator, lecturer, and women's rights advocate
- Harry Burns Hutchins1847-1930American legal scholar
- Henry Simmons Frieze1817-1889American academic administrator
- James Waterman Glover1868-1941American mathematician, statistician, and actuary
- Jesse Siddall Reeves1872-1942American academic
- Louise Reed Stowell1850-1931American scientist, author, editor
- Ruel Vance Churchill1899-1987American mathematician
- Cecil Gooding1883-1904American football player
- Claudius B. Grant1835-1921American judge
- Clyde E. Love1882-1960American mathematician and contract bridge writer
- Dennis Fitzgerald1936-2001American football player and coach
- Elmer Mitchell1889-1983American college football coach, college basketball coach
- Frede Vidar1911-1967Danish-born American visual artist, WPA muralist
- George D. Gillespie1810-1909American Bishop
- Hugh E. Wilson1899-1962American college sports coach Later an attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- James Kingsley1797-1878American politician
- Marion LeRoy Burton1874-1925American academic administrator
- Mary Collins Whiting1835-1912American lawyer, business woman, teacher, writer
- Shirley W. Smith1875-1959American writer
- William S. Maynard1802-1866American politician
- Alford S. Lyndon1875-1962American photographer and postcard publisher
- Carl E. Guthe1893-1974American anthropologist
- Cecil O. Creal1899-1986American politician
- Conrad Noll1836-1925German-born soldier in US Civil War
- Corydon L. Ford1813-1894American physician
- David Earl Mattern1890-1959American conductor and music educator
- Elizabeth Ruth Bennett1880-1972American mathematician
- F. Clever Bald1897-1970American educator
- Friedrich Schmid1807-1883Lutheran pastor
- Gerald D. Jernigan1942-2006American mayor
- Henry F. Vaughan1889-1979American epidemiologist
- J. Frederick Rentschler1868-1940American photographer
- John Haarer1840-1916American photographer
- Joseph Kemp1844-1917American soldier (1844-1917); recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War
- Norval E. Welch1835-1864Union Army colonel
- Samuel S. Walker1841-1909American politician
- Sarah Goddard Power1935-1987University of Michigan regent
- William E. Brown Jr.1896-1970American politician, Michigan
- William Warner Bishop, Jr.1906-1987American jurist
- Ada L. Olson1897-1986American entomologist working at the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan
- Bettie J. Metcalf1921-2008
- Charles M. Davis1900-1972American geographer and professor
- Clarence L. Meader1867-1967American classical philologist
- Claribel Baird Halstead1904-2003American actor, teacher, and director
- Crystal Thompson1887-1962American zoologist
- Donald R. Brown1925-2019Psychologist (U of Michigan)
- Eber White1798-1872American farmer
- Eli Gallup1891-1964American parks manager
- Elizabeth Catherine Allmendinger1837-1909American botanist, collector and teacher
- Elizabeth R. Sunderland1910-1994American architecture historian
- Freeman Devold Miller1909-2000American astronomer
- George Frank Allmendinger1855-1926American businessman
- Harold J. Lockett1924-1994American psychiatrist
- Horace L. Wilgus1859-1935American legal scholar
- John George Allmendinger1795-1859
- Joseph H. Drake1860-1947American classical philologist and legal historian
- Lawrence Carnahan Maugh1901-1971Ph.D. University of Michigan 1934
- Levi Douglas Wines1852-1938American educator
- Luther Fiske Warren1884-1937Physician and university teacher
- Mary Couper Bandemer1909-1978
- Philip Bach1820-1895German-American politician
- Richard A. Reuss1940-1986Folklorist And American Folk Music Revival Scholar
- Richard V. Black1937-2004American architect
- Robert C. Metcalf1923-2017American architect
- Russell Claudius Hussey1888-1970U.S. geologist and paleontologist
- Russell E. Bidlack1920-2003American librarian
- Sadye Power1901-1991American philanthropist
- Stratton Shartel Brown1923-2006American lawyer
- Victor Hugo Lane1852-1930American lawyer
- Vincent Collins Poor1876-1957Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1915
- William D. Harriman1832-1925American lawyer and legislator
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest 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
42.27893, -83.72772
What Forest 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
- Saint Andrew's Memorial Cloister GardenAnn Arbor, MICemetery0.8 mi
- Arborcrest CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery1.2 mi
- Fairview CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Thomas' Catholic CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICatholic cemetery1.6 mi
- Saint Clare's Episcopal Church Chapel ColumbariumAnn Arbor, MIEpiscopal cemetery1.7 mi
- Botsford CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery2.4 mi
- Bethlehem CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery3.0 mi
- Pioneer CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery3.1 mi
- Washtenong Memorial Park3771 Whitmore Lake Road, Ann Arbor, MIMemorial park3.4 mi
- Waters Road CemeteryAnn Arbor, MICemetery4.5 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Hill Cemetery
- Muehlig Funeral Chapel1.0 miFuneral chapel · Ann Arbor · (734) 663-3375
- Generations Funeral Cremation1.5 miCremation provider · Ann Arbor · (734) 971-9200
- Nie Family Funeral Home - Carpenter Road Chapel3.0 miFuneral home · Ann Arbor · (734) 971-2345
- Nie Family Funeral Home - Liberty Road Chapel3.9 miFuneral home · Ann Arbor · (734) 302-1000
- Arnet's Memorials5.2 miMonument dealer · Ann Arbor · (734) 665-3658
- Nie Family Funeral Home - Janowiak Chapel6.2 miFuneral home · Ypsilanti · (734) 482-6000
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Forest Hill Cemetery located?
Forest Hill Cemetery is at 415 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 in Washtenaw County. GPS coordinates: 42.27893, -83.72772.
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