Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton Cemetery is a cemetery in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. The grounds sit at about 190 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 203 notable people buried here, including Grover Cleveland, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 879492. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Paul's Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the east. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Star of David Memorial Chapel of Princeton in Princeton, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 54 cemeteries we list in Mercer County, and 38 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 3 of the 54 listings in Mercer County have a phone number or website on record.

Among them: 34 scientists, 28 writers, 7 artists, 7 Civil War veterans, 7 US senators, 6 business leaders, 5 journalists, 5 physicians.

• Grover Cleveland1837-1908
  22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
• John von Neumann1903-1957
  Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist
• Kurt Gödel1906-1978
  Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
• Eugene Paul Wigner1902-1995
  Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
• Hermann Weyl1885-1955
  German mathematician
• Aaron Burr1756-1836
  Vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived
• Philip W. Anderson1923-2020
  American physicist
• George F. Kennan1904-2005
  American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
• Alonzo Church1903-1995
  American mathematician and logician
• Clifford Geertz1926-2006
  American anthropologist
• Henry Norris Russell1877-1957
  American astronomer
• André Weil1906-1998
  French mathematician

People whose Wikidata entry gives Princeton 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.

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.

• Saint Paul's Cemetery

  Princeton, NJ
  Cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Princeton Abbey and Cemetery

  Kingston, NJ
  Cemetery

  2.1 mi
• Friends Burial Ground

  Princeton, NJ
  Quaker cemetery

  2.1 mi
• Kingston Presbyterian Cemetery

  Kingston, NJ
  Presbyterian cemetery

  2.7 mi
• Old Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery

  Plainsboro Center, NJ
  Methodist cemetery

  3.3 mi
• Rocky Hill Cemetery

  Ten Mile Run, NJ
  Cemetery

  3.7 mi
• Blawenburg Cemetery

  Princeton, NJ
  Cemetery

  4.4 mi
• Lawrenceville Cemetery

  Lawrenceville, NJ
  Cemetery

  4.6 mi
• Princessville Cemetery

  Lawrenceville, NJ
  Cemetery

  4.9 mi
• Ten Mile Run Cemetery

  Ten Mile Run, NJ
  Cemetery

  5.1 mi

• Star of David Memorial Chapel of Princeton

  Funeral chapel · Princeton · (609) 924-0245
  0.2 mi
• Mather-Hodge Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Princeton · (609) 924-0242
  0.2 mi
• Kimble Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Princeton · (609) 924-0018
  0.3 mi
• Hopewell Memorial Home

  Funeral home · Hopewell · (609) 466-3632
  5.5 mi
• Sutphen Memorials

  Monument dealer · Hopewell · (609) 921-6420
  5.5 mi
• M.J. Murphy Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Monmouth Junction · (732) 329-2000
  6.2 mi

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