About Mount Moriah Cemetery
Mount Moriah Cemetery is a cemetery near Grandview, Jackson County, Missouri. It lies about 4.2 mi southeast of Grandview. The grounds sit at about 909 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 23 notable people buried here, including Walter Cronkite, Kid Nichols and Buck Buchanan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 722782. The nearest other listed cemetery is Grange Cemetery, about 1.8 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mt Moriah Newcomer & Freeman Memorial Home in Kansas City, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 83 cemeteries we list in Jackson County, and 48 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Jackson County dates to 1842. 1 of the 83 listings in Jackson County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Grandview. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery
Among them: 5 baseball players, 3 musicians, 2 artists, 2 business leaders, 2 Korean War veterans, 2 US representatives, 1 football player, 1 boxer.
- Walter Cronkite1916-2009American broadcast journalist
- Kid Nichols1869-1953American baseball player
- Buck Buchanan1939-1992Player of American football
- Ralph Barton1891-1931American artist
- Claude Williams1908-2004American musician
- Barry Winchell1977-1999United States Army soldier
- Leonard Irving1898-1962American politician
- Dan Quisenberry1953-1998American baseball player
- Henry L. Jost1873-1950American politician
- Charles Clayton Dennie1883-1971American dermatologist
- Johnny Kling1875-1947American baseball player
- Hilton Smith1907-1983American Hall of Fame baseball player
Show all 23 notable burials
- Irene Cozad1888-1970American pianist, piano teacher, and composer
- J. L. Wilkinson1878-1964Baseball executive
- Jack A. Davenport1931-1951American boxer and United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Clara Stover1882-1975American businesswoman and chocolatier
- Joe Sanders1896-1965American jazz musician born 1896
- Russell Stover1888-1954American businessman
- Barton M. Russell1913-1988American Air Force officer
- Ruby Dwight Garrett1882-1968American military personnel
- Lorraine Makimson1898-1947American draftsman, printmaker, landscape painter, and painter
- Norman Norris Royall, Jr.1908-1983Ph.D. Brown University 1940
- Ruth Seufert1897-1975American entrepreneur
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Moriah 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
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What Mount Moriah 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
- Grange CemeteryGrandview, MOCemetery1.8 mi
- Mount Pleasant CemeteryGrandview, MOCemetery2.4 mi
- Linwood Pioneer CemeteryLeawood, KSCemetery3.0 mi
- Blue Ridge CemeteryGrandview, MOCemetery3.4 mi
- Corinth CemeteryLeawood, KSCemetery3.9 mi
- Palestine CemeteryRaytown, MOCemetery4.1 mi
- Woolford Farm Horse CemeteryPrairie Village, KSCemetery4.3 mi
- Green Lawn CemeteryRaytown, MOCemetery4.4 mi
- Rose Hill CemeteryKansas City, MOJewish cemetery4.6 mi
- Forest Hill CemeteryKansas City, MOCemetery4.6 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Moriah Cemetery
- Mt Moriah Newcomer & Freeman Memorial Home0.2 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 942-2004
- Serenity Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 599-2939
- Signature Funerals1.5 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 214-5174
- McGilley State Line Chapel2.6 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 942-6180
- Assurance Cremation Society3.4 miCremation provider · Kansas City · (816) 941-2273
- Eternal rest memorial chapel3.5 miFuneral chapel · Grandview · (816) 886-1167
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