About Rosedale Cemetery
Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery near West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. It lies about 1.1 mi northwest of West Orange. The grounds sit at about 177 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 110 notable people buried here, including Althea Gibson, James Curtis Hepburn and George Inness. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 879819. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Johns Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dangler Funeral Home-W Orange in West Orange, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 41 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 97 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, West Orange. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Rosedale Cemetery
Among them: 13 writers, 8 inventors and engineers, 7 business leaders, 6 musicians, 5 artists, 5 journalists, 5 scientists, 4 physicians.
- Althea Gibson1927-2003American tennis player
- James Curtis Hepburn1815-1911American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese
- George Inness1825-1894American landscape painter
- Platt Adams1885-1961Athletics competitor
- Lowell Mason1792-1872American composer; leading figure in American church music
- Michelle Thomas1968-1998American actress
- Charles Edison1890-1969American politician
- Francis Robbins Upton1852-1921American physicist
- Charles Follen McKim1847-1909American Beaux-Arts architect
- William Jacob Baer1860-1941American artist
- William Samuel Henson1812-1888Aviation engineer and inventor
- Frank Louis Kramer1880-1958American cyclist
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- William Mason1829-1908American composer
- Alfred Marshall Mayer1836-1897American physicist
- Horatio Allen1802-1889American civil engineer and inventor
- Jim Barnes1886-1966English-American golfer
- Richard Grant White1822-1885American literary scholar
- Aurelio Giorni1895-1938Pianist, Composer, Pedagogue
- George James Webb1803-1887English-American composer
- Alfred P. Boller1840-1912American engineer
- Christie MacDonald1875-1962Canadian opera singer and stage actor
- Silas Condit1778-1861American politician
- Hayward A. Harvey1824-1893American inventor
- John L. Blake1831-1899American politician
- John McDowell Leavitt1824-1909American writer, lawyer and priest
- Jonathan Scott Hartley1845-1912United States sculptor
- Samuel Colgate1822-1897American manufacturer and philanthropist
- Charlotte Fowler Wells1814-1901American phrenologist, publisher
- Earl Williams1948-2013American baseball catcher
- Frank C. Stanley1868-1910American singer
- Herman C. Hoskier1864-1938British biblical scholar
- Isaac Pierson1770-1833American politician
- Mary Artemisia Lathbury1841-1913American poet, illustrator, and hymnwriter
- Thomas J. Preston Jr.1862-1955American archeology professor
- Wendell Phillips Garrison1840-1907American writer
- William Hamilton Osborne1873-1942American author
- Frances Cox Henderson1820-1897First Lady of Texas
- Fred H. Colvin1867-1965American machinist, technical journalist, and author and editor of books and articles on industrial subjects
- George Inness, Jr.1854-1926American painter
- George J. Seabury1844-1909American chemist and pharmacist
- John Bennett1840-1907American potter
- Leroy Milton Yale1841-1906American pediatrician and etcher
- Thomas Richey1831-1905Irish-American catholic priest and theologian
- Andrew J. Graham1830-1894American writer and stenographer
- Austen Colgate1863-1927American businessman and politician
- Charles D. Norton1871-1922American banker
- Clarence Otis Bigelow1851-1937American pharmacist
- Cookie Cuccurullo1918-1983American baseball player
- Emma Bourne1846-1924American religious and temperance worker
- Francis Speir Jr.1856-1925American lawyer and writer
- George C. Tichenor1838-1902American judge
- George Merck1867-1926German entrepreneur
- James Miller McKim1810-1874U.S. abolitionist
- Jessie Allen Fowler1856-1932American phrenologist 1856-1932
- Leonor Fresnel Loree1858-1940American businessman
- Martha Van Marter1839-1931American magazine editor
- Miles Bartholomew1844-1933American stenographer and inventor
- Oliver Crane1822-1896American clergy, missionary, writer, poet
- Samuel Colgate, Jr.1868-1902American Presbyterian pastor and football coach
- Samuel R. Wells1820-1875American phrenologist and publisher
- Stella Stevens Bradford1871-1959American medical doctor
- Wally Choice1932-2018College basketball player (1954-1956) Indiana
- Aaron B. Tompkins1844-1931United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Ada A. Cooper1861-1899Lecturer, educator, poet, writer, journalist, missionary
- Alden Freeman1862-1937American architect and social reformer
- Charles Augustus Oliver1853-1911American eye surgeon
- Charles Greene Rockwood1843-1913American mathematician
- Clarence Hill Kelsey1856-1930American banker and writer
- Cornelia Foster Bradford1847-19351847-1935 , social reformer
- Frank E. Fesq1840-1920Medal of Honor recipient
- Henry Coddington Meyer1844-19351 May 1844 - certain 14 Apr 1935
- Joel Francis Freeman1836-1910American financier
- John Dane1835-1916American lawyer
- Lorenzo N. Fowler1811-1896American phrenologist
- Manton B. Metcalf1864-1923American textile merchant
- Marshall Bartholomew1885-1978American conductor and composer
- Mary G. Hill1803-1884American temperance activist
- R. B. Patton1794-1839American classical philologist
- Richard James Cross1845-1917English born railroad official and banker
- Robert Peace1980-2011American scholar
- Stephen Wickes1813-1889American physician and historian
- Theron Baldwin1801-1870American clergyman
- Wilfred J. Funk1883-1965American writer
- Alfred Beaumont Thacher1854-1928American lawyer
- Charles Lee Raper1870-1957Economist, college professor
- Daniel Addison Heald1818-1900American insurance executive and politician
- Elizabeth Ann Colgate1829-1891
- Frances Maria Abbey1840-192526 Jan 1840 - 30 Oct 1925
- Frederic Siebert1904-1929American Rhodes Scholar
- George E. Wibecan Jr.1900-1964American civil rights leader
- Gerald Mygatt1887-1955American editor and writer
- Gilbert Colgate1858-1933
- Helen Inness1861-193120 Nov 1861 - 25 Oct 1931
- James Brooks Dill1854-19101854-1910 , corporate lawyer and judge
- James C. Bayles1845-1913American editor and engineer
- John Oxenbridge Heald1850-1911American lawyer
- John Stevens Darcy1788-1863American physician and politician
- Julia Appleton Newbold1891-1972
- Katherine Elizabeth Steward1889-1969
- Katherine McKim Garrison1873-1948
- Peerage person ID=344495
- Marie Julie de Castillon Leeb1846-1919American-Swedish college teacher and head of department
- Matilda Redmond1847-1883
- Richard Richardson Williams1843-1915American editor and clergyman
- Sidney Morse Colgate1862-1930American manufacturer
- Slator Clay Hepburn1819-1895
- Sylvester Young L'Hommedieu1842-1925American rubber merchant
- William Frederick Allen1846-1915American metrologist
- William Redmond Cross1874-1940American banker
People whose Wikidata entry gives Rosedale 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 Rosedale 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 Johns CemeteryOrange, NJCemetery0.8 mi
- Edison GravesiteWest Orange, NJCemetery0.9 mi
- First Presbyterian Churchyard420 Main Street, Orange, NJPresbyterian cemetery1.1 mi
- Bloomfield CemeteryGlen Ridge, NJCemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryEast Orange, NJCemetery2.0 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryBloomfield, NJCemetery2.3 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryEast Orange, NJCemetery2.8 mi
- Glendale CemeteryBloomfield, NJCemetery2.8 mi
- Grove Street CemeteryEast Orange, NJCemetery2.9 mi
- Talmud Torah CemeteryIrvington, NJJewish cemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Rosedale Cemetery
- Lincoln Monument Co0.3 miMonument dealer · Montclair · (973) 744-1800
- Dangler Funeral Home-W Orange0.5 miFuneral home · West Orange · (973) 325-1212
- Cotton Funeral Service1.2 miFuneral home · Orange · (973) 675-6400
- Van Tassel Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Bloomfield · (973) 743-1761
- Izabela Funeral Service1.7 miFuneral home · Bloomfield · (201) 290-2173
- Caggiano Memorial Home1.8 miFuneral home · Montclair · (973) 744-6667
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