About Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery near Kearny, Essex County, New Jersey. It lies about 1.0 mi east of Kearny. The grounds sit at about 66 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 86 notable people buried here, including Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Joseph P. Bradley and William Pennington. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 878578. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Peters Churchyard Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the north. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Affordable Cremation in Newark, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 41 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 116 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 41 listings in Essex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Kearny. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Among them: 9 US representatives, 8 writers, 6 business leaders, 3 artists, 3 US senators, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 governors, 2 inventors and engineers.
- Frederick T. Frelinghuysen1817-1885American lawyer and politician
- Joseph P. Bradley1813-1892Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- William Pennington1796-1862American politician
- John F. Dryden1839-1911American businessman and philanthropist
- George Opdyke1805-1880American politician
- Marcus Lawrence Ward Sr.1812-1884American politician
- Samuel A. Ward1847-1903American organist and composer
- William Wright1794-1866American politician, New Jersey
- Livingston Farrand1867-1939American educator
- Seth Boyden1788-1870American inventor
- Alexander Wilson Drake1843-1916American artist
- Charles B. Ward1879-1946American politician
Show all 86 notable burials
- Edward Dorr Griffin1770-1837American academic administrator
- Edward W. Gray1870-1942American politician
- Frederick Halstead Teese1823-1894American politician
- George A. Halsey1827-1894American politician
- Henry William Herbert1807-1858English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport
- Nehemiah Perry1816-1881American politician
- Richard Hinckley Allen1838-1908American naturalist
- Andrew Kirkpatrick1844-1904United States federal judge
- Frederick Frelinghuysen1848-1924American businessman
- John Alexander McDougall1811-1894American artist
- Alexander C. M. Pennington1810-1867American politician
- Charles Alling Gifford1861-1937American architect
- Hiram Hutchinson1808-1869American industrialist
- Robert H. McCarter1859-1941New Jersey Attorney General
- Samuel Fowler Bigelow1837-1915American judge, attorney and author
- Theodore Runyon1822-1896Union United States Army general
- Thomas Alva Edison Jr.1876-1935American inventor
- David A. Depue1826-1902American judge
- Florence Louise Peshine1870-1956American academic
- Forrest F. Dryden1864-1932American insurance executive (1864-1932); president of Prudential Insurance Company of America
- George Griswold Frelinghuysen1851-1936American lawyer and businessman
- Isaac Baldwin1790-1853American politician, silversmith
- Isidor Kalisch1816-1886American rabbi
- John Holmes Agnew1804-1865Professor of ancient languages and Presbyterian clergyman
- Thomas N. McCarter1824-1901American lawyer and legislator
- William Burnet Kinney1799-1880American diplomat
- A. D. Eddy1798-1875American cleric and writer
- Charles Gilbert Hine1859-1931American publisher, editor, local historian and amateur photographer
- Charles Wolcott Parker1862-1948American judge
- Edmund Perry1825-1878American politician
- Edward Peter Meany1854-1938United States military officer
- George Tuttle Brokaw1879-1935American lawyer and sportsman
- John Gibson Wright1837-1890Union Army general
- Joseph Coerten Hornblower1777-1864American judge
- Joseph FewSmith1816-1888American Presbyterian minister
- Mary Depue Ogden1867-1960
- Mary Stilwell Edison1855-1884First wife of Thomas Edison
- Melancthon Williams Jacobus Sr.1816-1876American Presbyterian minister and writer
- Moses Bigelow1800-1874American politician (1800-1874); Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1857 to 1864
- Robert Francis Ballantine1836-1905American philanthropist
- Samuel Kalisch1851-1930American lawyer
- Thomas T. Kinney1821-1900American newspaper editor
- Wickliffe Erastus Baldwin1817-1871American jeweler, silversmith
- Abraham Kinney1762-1816American Revolutionary War soldier and landowner
- Annie Douglas Bell1835-1913American poet
- Charles F. Cummings1937-2005American and Newark City historian
- Edward H. Wright1824-1913American lawyer and diplomat
- Elizabeth Foote Gould1832-190029 Sep 1832 - certain 28 Jun 1900
- Estelle Burnet Kinney1868-1931
- Eugene Vanderpool1844-1903Millionaire
- Frederick Frelinghuysen1903-1966American lawyer
- Hannah Burnet Kinney1761-183224 May 1761 - certain 6 Apr 1832
- Hilah Drake Wheeler1877-1970American painter
- Inslee A. Hopper1836-1881Millionaire
- Isabella Linen1834-1911
- James Clark1892-1976Peerage person ID=61943
- James E. Howell1848-1916American lawyer
- John William Clark1876-1928Heir
- Leslie Dodd Ward1845-1910American art collector and businessman
- Margaret Condit Kinney1865-1954
- Margaretta Brua Cameron1869-1941
- Mary Ann Vermilye1845-1923Millionaire heiress
- Mary Caroline Gould1837-1912
- Mary Cornelia Lathrop1820-1879
- Parthenia Burke Garratt1885-1961Art collector
- Samuel Hayes Pennington1806-1900American physician
- Shannon Lord Meany1892-1951American painter
- Sydney Norris Ogden1853-1907American actuary
- Uzal Haggerty McCarter1861-1931American banker
- Wells Phillips Eagleton1865-1946
- William Clark1841-1902Millionaire thread manufacturer
- William Edward McDougall1847-1926American jewelry designer and landscape painter
- William H. Bradley1853-1889
- William Vail Brokaw1831-1907American businessman
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Pleasant 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 Pleasant 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 Peters Churchyard CemeteryBelleville, NJCatholic cemetery1.4 mi
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- Arlington Memorial ParkKearny, NJMemorial park1.8 mi
- North Arlington Jewish CemeteryKearny, NJJewish cemetery1.9 mi
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- Holy Cross CemeteryNorth Arlington, NJCemetery2.6 mi
- Talmud Torah CemeteryIrvington, NJJewish cemetery2.8 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryIrvington, NJJewish cemetery2.8 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Pleasant Cemetery
- Affordable Cremation0.6 miCremation provider · Newark · (800) 281-6323
- Gorny Funeral Service0.6 miFuneral home · Newark · (973) 919-4570
- Alvarez Funeral Home Inc0.6 miFuneral home · Newark · (973) 483-7000
- Thiele-Reid Family Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Kearny · (201) 991-3344
- Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Kearny · (201) 991-0657
- Shaw-buyus Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Kearny · (201) 991-2265
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