About Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. It lies about 6.8 mi north of Kansas City. The grounds sit at about 899 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 49 notable people buried here, including Satchel Paige, Johnnie Taylor and Zack Wheat. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 718087. The nearest other listed cemetery is Calvary Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Louis Memorial Chapel in Kansas City, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 83 cemeteries we list in Jackson County, and 66 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, Kansas City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Hill Cemetery
Among them: 5 business leaders, 4 baseball players, 3 artists, 2 musicians, 2 US representatives, 1 actor, 1 architect, 1 governor.
- Satchel Paige1906-1982American baseball player and coach
- Johnnie Taylor1938-2000American singer-songwriter
- Zack Wheat1888-1972American baseball player
- Buck O'Neil1911-2006American Hall of Fame baseball player & manager
- Jesse M. Donaldson1885-1970American politician
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden1832-1909American politician
- Rufus R. Jones1933-1993American professional wrestler
- Emmet Montgomery Reily1866-1954American politician
- John L. Barkley1895-1966United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Mason S. Peters1844-1914American politician
- Ad Brennan1887-1962American baseball player
- Harold Roe Bartle1901-1974American businessman, philanthropist and politician
Show all 49 notable burials
- Joe Kuhel1906-1984American baseball player
- Joyce C. Hall1891-1982Founder of greeting card company
- Robert A. Long1850-1934American lumber baron, real estate developer
- William Tell Johnson1848-1930American politician
- Charles H. Price II1931-2012American diplomat
- Delle Miller1875-1932American artist
- Martha Ellen Young Truman1852-1947Harry S. Truman's mother
- Sidney Catlin Partridge1857-1930American bishop
- Tatiana Dokoudovska1921-2005American ballet dancer
- Bobby Greenlease1947-1953American kidnapping and murder victim
- Edward Robert Atwill1840-1911Bishop of West Missouri
- John Caskie Collet1898-1955United States federal judge
- Lewis A. Rodert1906-1973American aircraft engineer
- R. Crosby Kemper1892-1972American banker
- Richard Lightburn Sutton1878-1952Physician, dermatologist
- Seth Ward1820-1903American businessman
- Alexander Kostellow1897-1954Qajar Iranian-born American industrial designer, teacher
- Bertha Mae Lillenas1889-1945American evangelist and hymn writer
- Hazel Browne Williams1907-1986American educator
- Henry B. Sanborn1845-191210 Sep 1845 - est. 19 May 1912
- Ilus W. Davis1917-1996American mayor
- Richard H. Tatlow III1906-1993American civil engineer
- W. R. Pickering1849-1927American business tycoon
- Will E. Skidmore1880-1959American composer and music publisher
- Alfred Jackson1953-2019Half-brother of the singer Prince
- Elise Emelia Hoelzel1897-1976Painter and illustrator
- Emily Ricks Truman1855-1929
- Henry Clarence Vinton1838-1919American politician
- Irmgard Altvater1916-197120th century dancer and choreographer
- John B. Wornall1822-1892American banker and politician
- John W. Gutowski1948-2001American photographer, educator
- Lawrence Wendell Fifield1891-1964American clergyman
- Mary Burnet Robinson1876-192330 Nov 1876 - certain 16 Apr 1923
- Minnie Mountfortt1868-1959
- Myra Colgan Hornbuckle1881-1975Hornbuckle, Myra Colgan, 1881-1975: Myra Colgan Hornbuckle and Mary Colgan Romine were first cousins of Harry S. Truman. Their mother, Emily Truman Colgan, was the sister of Harry S. Truman's father, John Anderson Truman. Harry Truman lived with th
- Ralph Elbert Myers Sr.1917-2007
- Verne Hyde1867-1948American businessperson, stationer, and postcard publisher
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
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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
- Calvary CemeteryKansas City, MOCemetery0.2 mi
- Rose Hill CemeteryKansas City, MOJewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Loose Memorial ParkKansas City, MOMemorial park2.4 mi
- Grange CemeteryGrandview, MOCemetery2.8 mi
- Thomas H. SwopeRaytown, MOCemetery2.9 mi
- Memorial Park CemeteryRaytown, MOMemorial park3.3 mi
- Green Lawn CemeteryRaytown, MOCemetery3.4 mi
- Shawnee Methodist Mission CemeteryRoeland Park, KS · est. 1837Methodist cemetery3.4 mi
- Corinth CemeteryLeawood, KSCemetery3.4 mi
- Woolford Farm Horse CemeteryPrairie Village, KSCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Hill Cemetery
- Louis Memorial Chapel0.3 miFuneral chapel · Kansas City · (816) 361-5211
- Kansas City Monument0.3 miMonument dealer · Kansas City · (816) 333-0075
- Muehlebach Funeral Care0.3 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 444-2060
- Muehlebach Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Kansas City
- Serenity Memorial Chapel0.8 miFuneral chapel · Kansas City · (816) 599-2939
- Signature Funerals2.5 miFuneral home · Kansas City · (816) 214-5174
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