About Mount Hebron Cemetery
Mount Hebron Cemetery is a cemetery near Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. It lies about 0.7 mi south of Upper Montclair. The grounds sit at about 351 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 43 notable people buried here, including Shirley Booth, Olympia Dukakis and Henry Gantt. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 878540. The nearest other listed cemetery is Immaculate Conception Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Jewish Memorial Chapel in Clifton, about 1.5 mi away. It is one of 41 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 80 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, Upper Montclair. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery
Among them: 6 writers, 4 actors, 4 inventors and engineers, 3 artists, 3 business leaders, 3 musicians, 2 journalists, 1 basketball player.
- Shirley Booth1898-1992American actress
- Olympia Dukakis1931-2021American actress
- Henry Gantt1861-1919American engineer
- Hellmuth Walter1900-1980German rocket scientist
- Louis Zorich1924-2018American actor
- Frank Nelson Cole1861-1926American mathematician
- Frederick Taylor Gates1853-1929American Baptist clergyman
- Herman Hupfeld1894-1951American songwriter
- Edward S. Ellis1840-1916Novelist, nonfiction writer
- Albert W. Hawkes1878-1971American politician
- George Walker1922-2018American classical composer
- Allen B. DuMont1901-1965American electronics engineer and inventor
Show all 43 notable burials
- Grace Fernald1879-1950American psychologist
- Charles Henry Ingersoll1865-1948American industrialist
- Lloyd Bartlett Gatchell1901-1969American philatelist
- Alfred Powell Morgan1889-1972American electrical engineer
- Bayard Hilton Faulkner1894-1983Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey
- Frank Fellows Gray1863-1935Founder of 1908 Glasgow, Scotland Troop, 1909 Troop 4 Montclair, New Jersey, 1917 Camp Glen Gray, Bergen County, New Jersey
- John Coard Taylor1901-1946American sprinter and hurdler
- Walter Conant Greenough1856-1898Artist
- William Staub1915-2012American engineer and inventor
- Bella Meisel1902-1991Actress and lyricist in Yiddish theater
- Charles Augustus Hanna1863-1950American author
- Edward Dillon1882-1935American football player
- Fanny Lawrence Carter1849-1934American poet
- Florence Rand Lang1861-1943American painter and collector
- Frank Watterson Jackson1874-1955American lawyer and advocate for Anatolian Greeks
- Friedericke Caroline Lindauer1876-1969Wife of Peter Degenhardt
- Paul Weidlinger1922-1999Hungarian structural engineer
- Sara Marshall Cook Keefer1886-1940Newspaper fashion editor
- Union Noble Bethell1859-1933(1859-1933) vice president of AT&T
- Elmer Wilcox Hubbard1861-1933Military officer and professor of military science
- Emanuel Streisand1908-1943School superintendent
- Franklin K. Mathiews1873-1950Librarian, Boy Scouts of America
- Henry A. Strohmeyer1858-1943American photographer and publisher
- Henry Barker Fernald1878-1967American accountant
- Kwei-Sang Wang1919-1979American newspaperperson, journalist and editor in chief of Chinese descent, former diplomat of the Republic of China (ROC)
- Mabel Ruth Fernald1883-1952American psychologist
- Martin Holland1938-1993College basketball player (1958-1958) Vanderbilt
- Nehemiah Dwight Wyman1861-1934American photographer and publisher
- Wilbert Webster White1863-1944American educator
- William H. Seely1880-1939American businessman and political activist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Hebron 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.
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What Mount Hebron 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
- Immaculate Conception CemeteryUpper Montclair, NJCatholic cemetery0.2 mi
- King Solomon CemeteryNutley, NJCemetery2.6 mi
- Crest Haven CemeteryNutley, NJCemetery2.9 mi
- East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Menorah SectionPassaic, NJCemetery3.0 mi
- A M White Lodge CemeteryTotowa, NJCemetery3.0 mi
- Menorah CemeteryPassaic, NJCemetery3.0 mi
- Independent United Jersey Verein CemeteryTotowa, NJCemetery3.0 mi
- Laurel Grove Cemetery295 Totowa Road, Totowa, NJChurch cemetery3.1 mi
- Mount Nebo CemeteryTotowa, NJCemetery3.2 mi
- East Ridgelawn CemeteryNutley, NJCemetery3.3 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Hebron Cemetery
- Jewish Memorial Chapel1.5 miFuneral chapel · Clifton · (973) 779-3048
- Bizub-Quinlan Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Clifton · (973) 546-2000
- Shook's Cedar Grove Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Cedar Grove · (973) 239-1489
- Halpin - Bitecola Brookdale Funeral & Cremation Service1.7 miCremation provider · Bloomfield · (973) 338-5900
- J L Apter Jewish Memorial Chapel1.7 miFuneral chapel · Cedar Grove · (973) 239-4200
- Allwood Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Clifton · (973) 773-6666
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