About Alfred Rural Cemetery
Alfred Rural Cemetery is a cemetery near Alfred, Allegany County, New York. It lies about 1.1 mi southwest of Alfred. The grounds sit at about 1,706 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including William Wallace Brown, Frederic Palen Schoonmaker and Daniel Lewis. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 942314. The nearest other listed cemetery is Stillman Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Bender, Brown & Powers Funeral Home in Hornell, about 6.9 mi away. It is one of 105 cemeteries we list in Allegany County, and 35 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 105 listings in Allegany County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Alfred. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Alfred Rural Cemetery
Among them: 1 musician, 1 physician, 1 US representative.
- William Wallace Brown1836-1926Union Army soldier and politician
- Frederic Palen Schoonmaker1870-1945United States federal judge
- Daniel Lewis1846-1919American physician
- Arthur Montrose Cottrell1885-1918American football coach and World War I veteran
- Arthur Mees1850-1923American organist, conductor, and teacher
People whose Wikidata entry gives Alfred Rural 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
42.26776, -77.77852
What Alfred Rural 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
- Stillman CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery0.4 mi
- Maplewood CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery1.3 mi
- Hartsville Hill CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery2.9 mi
- East Valley CemeteryEast Valley Road, Alfred, NYCemetery3.2 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryHornell, NYCemetery4.1 mi
- Hartsville Center CemeteryCanisteo, NYCemetery4.9 mi
- Call Hill CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery5.3 mi
- East Valley CemeteryAndover, NYCemetery5.4 mi
- West Almond CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery6.0 mi
- Phillips Creek CemeteryAlfred, NYCemetery6.0 mi
Funeral homes near Alfred Rural Cemetery
- Bender, Brown & Powers Funeral Home6.9 miFuneral home · Hornell · (607) 324-2341
- Brown and Power Funeral Home6.9 miFuneral home · Hornell
- Dagon Funeral Home7.4 miFuneral home · Hornell · (607) 324-3500
- Bishop-Johnson and DeSanto Funeral Home7.5 miFuneral home · Hornell · (607) 324-2700
- Baker-Swan Funeral Home7.7 miFuneral home · Andover · (607) 478-8740
- Brown and Powers Funeral Home8.7 miFuneral home · Canisteo · (607) 324-2341
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