About Columbia Cemetery
Columbia Cemetery is a cemetery near Columbia, Boone County, Missouri. The grounds sit at about 738 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 46 notable people buried here, including Jane Froman, Agnes Sime Baxter and Benjamin Anderson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 716134. The nearest other listed cemetery is Memorial Park Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Parker-Millard Funeral Service & Crematory in Columbia, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 63 cemeteries we list in Boone County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 63 listings in Boone County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Columbia. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Columbia Cemetery
Among them: 6 journalists, 5 US representatives, 3 scientists, 2 business leaders, 2 musicians, 1 actor, 1 football player, 1 artist.
- Jane Froman1907-1980American actress
- Agnes Sime Baxter1870-1917Mathematician
- Benjamin Anderson1886-1949American economist
- James S. Rollins1812-1888American politician
- John William Boone1864-1927American musician
- Walter Williams1864-1935American journalist and educator
- William L. Nelson1875-1946American politician
- Abraham J. Williams1781-1839American politician
- John Hiram Lathrop1799-1866American academic administrator
- Max Schwabe1905-1983American politician
- Philemon Bliss1813-1889American politician
- Frank Gaines Harris1871-1944American politician
Show all 46 notable burials
- Willard Duncan Vandiver1854-1932American politician
- Albert Ross Hill1868-1943American academic administrator
- Edwin William Stephens1849-1931American publisher
- Fred Morris Dearing1879-1963American government official
- Gladys Davidson Weinberg1909-2002American archaeologist
- Odon Guitar1825-1908Union Army general
- Richard Henry Jesse1853-1921President of University of Missouri
- William Franklin Switzler1819-1906American publisher, historian
- Charles Young1867-1908American football coach for the University of Missouri Tigers
- David Henry Hickman1821-1869American politician
- Edwin Moss Watson1867-1937American newspaper editor
- James Shannon1799-1859President of the University of Missouri
- Tracy Montminy1911-1992American artist
- Ann Hawkins Gentry1791-1870Postmaster of Columbia, Missouri
- Doris Crump Bradshaw1896-1994American librarian and genealogist
- Frederick Middlebush1890-1971American academic administrator
- Irene S. Taylor1902-1989American information specialist
- Joe Holsinger1904-1946American-football player (-1946)
- John Carleton Jones1856-1930President of the University of Missouri
- North Todd Gentry1866-1944Lawyer and Missouri Attroney General
- Priestly H. McBride1796-1869American judge
- Wilhelmus David Allen Westfall1879-1951American mathematician
- William Wilson Hudsonborn 1808American academic administrator
- Edna Daisy Day1871-1915American scientist and university teacher
- Henry Jackson Waters1865-1925American educator (1865-1926); president of Kansas Agricultural College
- James Lewis Parks1886-1934American law professor
- Mary H. Sellers1923-2011Instructor in psychology and sociology
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Maurice E. Votaw1899-1981American journalist
- Robin Lingle1942-2007American distance runner
- Sanford Conley Hunt1867-1934American businessman
- Sanford F. Conley1838-1890American businessman
- Sanford Francis Conley1871-1950American realtor
- William Pope Yeaman1832-1904American Baptist minister and denominational leader
People whose Wikidata entry gives Columbia 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
38.94913, -92.33724
What Columbia 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
- Memorial Park CemeteryColumbia, MOMemorial park1.6 mi
- Jewell CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery2.0 mi
- Fairview CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery2.5 mi
- Goodin CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery3.6 mi
- Bethel-Hickam CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery3.9 mi
- Hinkson Creek CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery4.0 mi
- Antioch CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery4.2 mi
- Fortney CemeteryColumbia, MOCemetery5.0 mi
- New Providence CemetaryColumbia, MOCemetery5.3 mi
- Union Church CemeteryColumbia, MOChurch cemetery5.4 mi
Funeral homes near Columbia Cemetery
- Parker-Millard Funeral Service & Crematory0.3 miCremation provider · Columbia · (573) 449-4153
- Millard Family Funeral Service0.3 miFuneral home · Columbia
- Heartland Cremation & Burial Society1.0 miCremation provider · Columbia · (573) 442-7850
- Heartland Cremation & Burial Society1.2 miCremation provider · Columbia · (573) 442-7850
- Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel1.4 miFuneral chapel · Columbia · (573) 441-2932
- Memorial Funeral Home, Crematory and Memorial Park Cemetery1.7 miCremation provider · Columbia · (573) 443-3173
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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