About Riverview Cemetery
Riverview Cemetery is a cemetery near Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. It lies about 1.6 mi northeast of Trenton. The grounds sit at about 39 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 30 notable people buried here, including George Brinton McClellan, George Antheil and John Augustus Roebling. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 879724. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint John's Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Firdous Funeral Home in Trenton, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 54 cemeteries we list in Mercer County, and 90 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 3 of the 54 listings in Mercer County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Trenton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverview Cemetery
Among them: 5 Civil War veterans, 2 business leaders, 2 inventors and engineers, 2 US representatives, 2 US senators, 1 architect, 1 governor, 1 Medal of Honor recipient.
- George Brinton McClellan1826-1885American soldier and politician
- George Antheil1900-1959American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor
- John Augustus Roebling1806-1869German-American engineer
- William L. Dayton1807-1864American politician
- Frank O. Briggs1851-1913American senator for New Jersey
- Randolph B. Marcy1812-1887Union Army general
- J. Hart Brewer1844-1900American politician
- John T. Bird1829-1911Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
- Gershom Mott1822-1884Union United States Army general
- Frederick William Donnelly1866-1935American mayor
- John Scarborough1831-1914American bishop
- William J. Archinal1840-1919American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
Show all 30 notable burials
- William Lewis Dayton, Jr.1839-1897American lawyer
- Frank Mosher1871-1941Bishop of the Philippine Islands
- Bennet Van Syckel1830-1921American judge
- Charles G. Roebling1849-1918American civil engineer, brother of Washington Roebling
- Ellen Marcy McClellan1838-1915Wife of General George B. McClellan
- Francis Bazley Lee1869-1914American historian and lawyer
- George Percy Ihrie1827-1903
- James Fowler Rusling1834-1918American Civil War officer and author
- Mayville William Twitchell1868-1927U.S. paleontologist
- William Scudder Stryker1838-1900American soldier, author
- A. J. McKelway1812-1885American physician
- Elizabeth Scudder1800-1878
- Garret D. W. Vroom1843-1914American jurist
- Helen Boudinot Atterbury1848-1936
- Henry Woodhull Green1804-1876American judge; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (NJ) 1846-1860
- James E. Bell1844-1873American military officer
- Maria Matilda Wall1814-1879
- N. Sayre Harris1805-1886West Point graduate
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverview 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
40.19510, -74.75488
What Riverview 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 John's CemeteryTrenton, NJCemetery0.4 mi
- Morrisville CemeteryMorrisville, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Congregation Brothers of Israel901 Liberty Street, Trenton, NJJewish cemetery1.2 mi
- St. Francis CemeteryTrenton, NJCatholic cemetery1.4 mi
- Our Lady of Lourdes CemeteryTrenton, NJCemetery1.5 mi
- Holy Cross Cemetery #2Trenton, NJCemetery1.7 mi
- Mercer CemeteryTrenton, NJCemetery1.7 mi
- St. Vladamir Orthodox Church Parish CemeteryTrenton, NJOrthodox cemetery1.7 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryTrenton, NJCemetery1.7 mi
- Ahavath Israel Congregation CemeteryTrenton, NJChurch cemetery1.7 mi
Funeral homes near Riverview Cemetery
- Firdous Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Trenton · (609) 943-2177
- B. Kemah Funeral Services0.7 miFuneral home · Trenton · (609) 516-5456
- Al Firdous Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Trenton
- Kutch Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Trenton · (609) 393-6320
- Winowicz Funeral Service0.8 miFuneral home · Trenton · (609) 393-4603
- Chiacchio Southview Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Trenton · (609) 396-4686
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