About Brookside Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery is a cemetery near Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey. It lies about 1.0 mi southwest of Englewood. The grounds sit at about 85 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 52 notable people buried here, including Robert Bruce Merrifield, Philip Bosco and Frank M. Chapman. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 874967. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Carmel Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Eternity Funeral Services LLC in Englewood, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 55 cemeteries we list in Bergen County, and 75 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Englewood. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Brookside Cemetery
Among them: 5 writers, 4 artists, 3 actors, 3 business leaders, 3 musicians, 3 US representatives, 2 architects, 1 football player.
- Robert Bruce Merrifield1921-2006American biochemist
- Philip Bosco1930-2018American actor
- Frank M. Chapman1864-1945American ornithologist
- Dorothy Tree1906-1992American actress, voice teacher and writer
- Dwight Morrow1873-1931American politician
- Harold Lamb1892-1962American historian and novelist
- Dody Goodman1914-2008American actress
- Corliss Lamont1902-1995American activist
- George Woodward Wickersham1858-1936American lawyer
- Thomas W. Lamont1870-1948American banker
- Davy Force1849-1918Early Major League Baseball player
- Frank C. Osmers, Jr.1907-1977American politician
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- Lilian Kallir1931-2004American pianist
- Robert Elliott Speer1867-1947Missionary in China
- Anna Rochester1880-1966American activist
- Archibald E. Olpp1882-1949Politician and United States Army officer
- Edith Van Buren1858-1914American socialite and world traveler
- Ella Condie Lamb1862-1936American painter, artisan, and illustrator
- Frank Redman1901-1966American cinematographer
- Cullen Sawtelle1805-1887American politician
- Thomas Cochran1871-1936American banker
- Thomas Day Thacher1881-1950American judge
- Charles Rollinson Lamb1860-1942American artist
- Edna Libby Beutenmüller1872-1934American scientific illustrator and collector
- Henry M. Brinckerhoff1868-1949American engineer
- Seward Prosser1871-1942American banker
- Thomas Thacher1850-1919American lawyer
- Van Kleeck Allisonborn 1894American birth control advocate
- William Outis Allison1849-1924Mayor of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
- William Weaver Bennett1841-1912American politician in New Jersey
- Alice Ross Colver1892-198820th-century American author
- Alois Havrilla1891-1952Radio announcer and singer
- Downing Vaux1856-1926American landscape architect
- Enos Benjamin Comstock1879-1945American artist
- Frederick Stymetz Lamb1862-1928American artist
- George M. Coyte1831-1918American postcard publisher
- Henry G. Pearson1844-1889Postmaster of New York City
- Isaac Smith Homans1807-1874American author
- Oliver Smith Strong1864-1951American histologist
- Daniel C. Baker, Jr.1908-1974American throat specialist
- Dr. Rudolf Franz Kallir (Nirenstein)1895-1987Viennese emigré to NYC
- Elisabeth Morrow1904-1934American educator
- Emma Doll Bailey1872-1961
- George A. Zabriskie1868-1954American art collector
- Gertrude Crownfield1867-1945
- Helen Boyden Lamb1906-1975American economist and activist
- Loraine Eleanor Vanderpool1872-1956
- Mary MacCracken1926-2014American special educator
- Mary Sayles Booker Braga1921-2014American art collector
- Moina M Rademacher Kallir1906-1972USA pianist and French teacher
- Thomas B. Van Buren1824-1889American general and diplomat
- William Gerard Vermilye1841-1900
People whose Wikidata entry gives Brookside 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 Brookside 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
- Mount Carmel CemeteryTenafly, NJCemetery0.4 mi
- Woodside CemeteryDumont, NJCemetery3.1 mi
- Cemetery of the MadonnaLeonia, NJCemetery3.2 mi
- French Huguenot – Demarest CemeteryRiver Edge, NJChristian cemetery3.6 mi
- Hackensack CemeteryTeaneck, NJCemetery3.7 mi
- Sautjes Tave's Begraven GroundDemarest, NJCemetery3.8 mi
- Saint Joseph CemeteryTeaneck, NJCemetery3.8 mi
- Van Cortlandt Family VaultYonkers, NYCemetery3.8 mi
- Enslaved African and Kingsbridge Burial GroundsYonkers, NYCemetery3.9 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryThe Bronx, NYCemetery4.9 mi
Funeral homes near Brookside Cemetery
- American Monument Co0.3 miMonument dealer · Englewood · (201) 569-4455
- Eternity Funeral Services LLC0.7 miFuneral home · Englewood · (201) 568-2671
- Barrett Leber Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Tenafly · (201) 568-8043
- Nesbitt Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Englewood · (201) 567-6600
- Riewerts Memorial Home2.0 miFuneral home · Bergenfield · (201) 384-0700
- Volk Leber Funeral Homes2.2 miFuneral home · Teaneck · (201) 836-0202
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