About Forest Lawn Cemetery
Forest Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Buffalo, Erie County, New York. It lies about 3.0 mi south of Buffalo. Wikidata records 259 notable people buried here, including Millard Fillmore, Shirley Chisholm and Willis Carrier. The nearest other listed cemetery is Blue-Sky Mausoleum, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Buffalo Cremation Co Ltd in Buffalo, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 143 cemeteries we list in Erie County, and 60 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 143 listings in Erie County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Buffalo. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery
Among them: 31 US representatives, 27 business leaders, 16 writers, 11 Civil War veterans, 11 journalists, 8 actors, 8 artists, 7 architects.
- Millard Fillmore1800-1874President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
- Shirley Chisholm1924-2005First black woman elected to the United States Congress
- Willis Carrier1876-1950American inventor
- Abigail Fillmore1798-1853First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853
- Rick James1948-2004American singer, songwriter and record producer
- Frederick Cook1865-1940American explorer
- Charles Daniels1885-1973American swimmer
- Anna Katharine Green1846-1935American novelist
- Charles Reidpath1889-1975American athlete
- Paul Kurtz1925-2012American professor of philosophy
- Kristen Pfaff1967-1994American musician and singer
- Mary J. Rathbun1860-1943American carcinologist
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- Kathleen Howard1884-1956Opera singer, actress, magazine editor
- Red Jacket1750-1830Seneca chief
- William Fargo1818-1881American businessman and former mayor
- Louise Blanchard Bethune1856-1913American architect
- Ely S. Parker1828-1895Union Army officer and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs
- Lawrence Dale Bell1894-1956American industrialist, founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation
- Leslie Fiedler1917-2003American literary critic
- Wilson S. Bissell1847-1903American politician
- Al Boasberg1891-1937Screenwriter, Film director
- Edward Streeter1891-1976American novelist and journalist
- Edward Austin Kent1854-1912American architect
- Marian de Forest1864-1935American journalist and playwright
- Nathan K. Hall1810-1874American politician
- Samuel P. Heintzelman1805-1880Union Army general
- Albert James Myer1828-1880Union Army general
- Mary Burnett Talbert1866-1923American activist
- Bennett C. Riley1790-1853United States Army general and politician
- Charles Daniels1825-1897American politician
- Clarence MacGregor1872-1952American politician
- Will White1854-1911American baseball player, pitcher, manager
- William Dorsheimer1832-1888United States lawyer, politician and journalist
- William L. Alden1837-1908American lawyer, diplomat, journalist
- Daniel N. Lockwood1841-1906American politician
- De Alva S. Alexander1846-1925American historian, lawyer, politician and journalist
- Elbridge G. Spaulding1809-1897American banker, politician and lawyer
- George W. Clinton1807-1885American mayor
- George Wadsworth1893-1958American diplomat
- Jacob F. Schoellkopf1819-1899American entrepreneur
- Stuart Cary Welch1928-2008American historian of Islamic art
- William F. Waldow1882-1930American politician
- William Farquhar Barry1818-1879Union Army general
- Alfred P. Southwick1826-1898American dentist and inventor
- Alfred P. Stone1813-1865American politician
- Charles Cary Rumsey1879-1922American artist
- Charley Ferguson1939-2023American football player
- Edward Ray Goetz1885-1954(1886-1954) American composer, writer and producer
- Erastus C. Knight1857-1923American mayor
- George Cary1859-1945American architect
- George M. Love1831-1887American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Israel T. Hatch1808-1875American politician
- James M. Humphrey1819-1899American politician
- John Cornelius Butler1887-1953American politician
- John Ganson1818-1874American politician
- Lawrence W. Hall1819-1863American politician
- Lyman K. Bass1836-1889U.S. Representative from New York 1873-1877
- Thomas C. Love1789-1853American lawyer and politician
- William Findlay Rogers1820-1899American politician
- Albert H. Tracy1793-1859American politician
- Barbara Siggers Franklin1917-1952American singer
- Daniel R. Tilden1804-1890American politician
- Ebenezer Walden1777-1857American politician
- Franklin A. Alberger1825-1877American politician
- George S. Buck1875-1931American politician, New York
- J. Francis Harter1897-1947American politician
- James A. Johnson1865-1939American architect
- James Arthur Roberts1847-1922American politician, author
- John B. Macy1799-1856American politician
- John B. Weber1842-1926American politician
- John R. Hazel1860-1951American judge
- Josephus Nelson Larned1836-1913American librarian, newspaper editor, and author.
- Judy Malcolm1910-1998American actress
- Lewis Eaton1790-1857American politician
- Matthew D. Mann1845-1921American gynecologist
- Morris S. Tremaine1871-1941American businessman and politician
- Philip Becker1830-1898American politician
- Richard A. Waite1848-1911American architect
- Roland Rohlfs1892-1974Early American aviator
- Solomon G. Haven1810-1861American lawyer and politician
- William A. Moseley1798-1873American politician
- Alexander Brush1824-1892American politician
- Anson Goodyear1877-1964American businessman
- Caroline C. Fillmore1813-1881Second wife of Millard Fillmore
- Chandler J. Wells1814-1887American politician
- Charles F. Bishop1844-1913American politician
- Daniel D. Bidwell1819-1864Union Army General
- Fakir of Ava1813-1891Illusionist
- Frank St. John Sidway1869-1938American lawyer
- Frank X. Schwab1874-1946American politician
- Hiram Barton1810-1880American politician
- Hiram Pratt1800-1840American politician
- Isaac R. Harrington1789-1851American politician
- James Clark Strong1826-1915American lawyer and Civil War general
- Jane Meade Welch1854-1931American journalist, lecturer
- John B. Manning1833-1908American politician
- John H. Cooke1911-1998New York politician and judge
- John M. Farquhar1832-1918United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Joseph G. Masten1809-1871American politician
- Katharine Pratt Horton1847-1931American activist
- Lewis Bennett1828-1896United States long-distance runner
- Loran L. Lewis1825-1916American lawyer and politician
- Millard Powers Fillmore1828-1889American lawyer
- Mitchell Mark1868-1918Pioneer of Motion Picture Exhibition: world's first permanent movie theater.
- Norman E. Mack1856-1932American newspaper publisher and political leader
- Orsamus H. Marshall1813-1884Lawyer, educator, historian
- Ray V. Pierce1840-1914American politician
- Seymour H. Knox I1861-1915American businessman
- Sheldon Thompson1785-1851American politician
- Solomon Scheu1822-1888American mayor
- Staley N. Clarke1794-1860American politician
- Stanford Lipsey1927-2016American newspaper publisher and photographer
- Sullivan Amory Meredith1816-1874American businessman and Union officer
- William Caryl Ely1856-1921American politician in New York
- William Insco Buchanan1853-1909
- Anna Weed Prosser1846-1902American evangelist
- Ansley Wilcox1856-1930American scholar
- Charles W. Goodyear1846-1911American businessman
- E. Carleton Sprague1822-1895American politician
- Eli Cook1814-1865Mayor of the city of Buffalo, New York
- Flora Juliette Cooke1864-1953American progressive educator
- Frank H. Goodyear1849-1907American businessman
- Franklin Sidway1834-1920American businessman, 1834-1920
- George E. Matthews1855-1911President of the J. N. Matthews Co., publisher of the Buffalo Courier-Express
- Grace Carew Sheldon1855-1921American journalist, author, newspaper editor
- Harmon S. Cutting1830-188419th century politician from the United States
- Henry K. Smith1811-1854American politician, New York
- James O. Putnam1818-1903American politician
- John C. Lord1805-1877American Presbyterian minister, lawyer and writer
- John D. Larkin1845-1926Buffalo businessman known for pioneering the mail-order business model
- John J. Albright1848-1931American businessman and philanthropist
- Jones Morgan1882-1993American supercentenarian
- Lester W. Milbrath1925-2007American sociologist
- Marcus M. Drake1835-1907American politician
- Mary Abigail Fillmore1832-1854Daughter of U.S. President Millard Fillmore
- Mickey Harmon1984-2025American artist
- Nelson W. Cheney1875-1944American politician in New York
- Northrup Rand Knox1928-1998American Hockey League Executive, banker and community leader
- Parton Swift1876-1952American lawyer and politician
- Ross Graves1874-1940American politician
- Russ Carrick1889-1955American football coach
- Seward Cary1862-1948American polo player
- Townsend Griffiss1900-1942US army aviator
- Victor M. Rice1818-1869American politician
- Walter Pulitzer1878-1926American publisher, writer and chess composer
- William Ketchum1798-187614th mayor of Buffalo, NY
- William Williams1815-1876American politician
- Adrian R. Root1832-1899Union Army colonel and brevet major general
- Anna Glenny Dunbar1888-1980American artist
- Arthur D. Bissell1844-1926American collector of customs
- Benjamin A. Dahlke1883-1958American businessperson and stationer
- Blanche Elizabeth Wade1872-1928Author
- Charles L. Pond1832-1891American photographer
- Dan Carnevale1918-2005American baseball player, manafer and scout
- Daniel Willard Streeter1883-1964American writer
- Darwin D. Martin1865-1935American businessman
- Dorothy Goetz1892-1912American singer, first wife of Irving Berlin
- Edmund B. Hayes1849-1923American engineer and businessman
- Edward Ashley Eames1872-1955Botanist
- Frank E. Wade1865-1929American lawyer (1864-1929); New York Superintendent of State Prisons
- George R. Bidwell1858-1948American bicycle salesman and manufacturer
- George Reed Babcock1806-1876American politician
- George Urban Jr.1850-1928American businessman
- Hamilton Robert Bruce1871-1958Canadian-American writer
- Harriet A. Townsend1839-1916American writer, labor leader and women's rights activist
- Harry D. Kirkover1872-1958American sportsman, dog breeder and realtor
- Henry D. Kirkover1837-1915American real estate dealer
- Henry Moxley1809-1878American businessman and activist
- Henry W. Brendel1857-1940American lawyer, government official
- Hugo Schoellkopf1862-1928American chemist
- Isaac Nelson Ford1848-1912American author and journalist
- James D. Warren1823-1886American publisher and politician
- James L. Crane1877-1942American football coach
- John C. Sagelhurst1841-1907Medal of Honor recipient
- John Kaiser1825-1894
- John P. McVeane1842-1864Medal of Honor recipient
- Joseph T. Jones1842-1916American businessman
- Joseph Willcocks1773-1814Canadian politician
- Lewis F. Allen1800-1890American farmer and politician
- Nathan Boasberg1825-1910Dutch Jewish settler of Buffalo, New York
- Nestor Protsyk1912-1973American psychiatrist
- Orin Foster1840-1928Entrepreneur from Canada/the US
- Robert B. Adam1863-1940American book collector
- Rollin Lynde Hartt1869-1946American journalist
- Sheridan Block1853-1921Actor
- William F. Robinson1913-2008American politician and semiprofessional baseball player
- William G. Williams1801-1846Williams, William G (1801- 1846); class of 1824; known for Topographical drawing, portrait painting
- William John Wilgus1819-1853American painter
- William Paterson1919-2003American actor
- A. Howard Aaron1892-1952American lawyer
- Addison Foster Vars1898-1968
- Alfred Heerdt1881-1958American basketball player and coach
- Aline Louise Reavis1902-1990Socialite
- Almeda Zibia Barrett1831-1924American botanist and botanical collector
- Amelia Minerva Roberts1881-1972
- Andrew Langdon1835-1919
- Arlester Christian1943-1971American singer, songwriter
- Bayard Wilkeson1844-1863American military personnel
- Benjamin Ward Appleton1864-1927Buffalo, NY businessman
- Bradley Goodyear1816-18896 Dec 1816 - 16 May 1889
- Carlos Cobb1815-1877Merchant 1815-1877
- Catherine Appleton1900-1991
- Charlotte Spaulding1843-1934
- Chauncey Jerome Hamlin1881-1963Buffalo, New York visitor who co-named Mather Pass
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew II1867-1927
- Clifford M. Husted1886-1936American mechanical engineer
- Clinton Randolph Wyckoff1915-1999
- Delia Spencer Root1815-1895
- Dorothy Virginia Knox1896-1980
- Edward Caleb Randall1860-1935American author
- Edwin Ross Thomas1850-1936American businessman and automobile manufacturer
- Elizabeth Drake1876-1949
- Emily Ann Gray Hamlin1882-1933Buffalo, New York visitor who co-named Mather Pass
- Emma Fielddied 1914American actress
- Evelyn Pollock1872-1938American actress
- Florence Mary Fitch1875-1959American academic
- Foster Parmelee1897-1984Businessman and adult educator
- Francis Hinsdale Root1815-1892American industrialist
- Francis L. Guenther1838-1918American military officer
- Frank Henry Goodyear Jr.1891-19301891-1930
- Fred R. Wren1849-1917American actor and comedian
- Frederick N. Burt1863-1955American manufacturer
- Ganson Depew1866-1934Lawyer and businessman of Buffalo, NY
- George Franklin Rand1891-1942American banker
- George Palmer Keating1871-1945
- George Redlein1885-1968American basketball player
- Georgia Fargo1841-1892Millionaire heiress
- Grace Goodyear1872-1914
- Grace Holland1873-1960
- Griffin Stedman Williams1841-1911American businessman, soldier, diplomat
- Harriet Mack Welch1897-1952
- Harriet Schermerhorn Conkling1815-1886
- Herman Boasberg1859-1928
- Irving Miller Snow1860-1932American physician and medical professor
- James Denison Sawyer1875-1943American businessman
- James Denison Sawyer1813-1881American businessman
- James Platt White1811-1881American physician
- Jeannette Putnam Keating1878-1961
- John E. Brent1889-1962Born 8 Aug 1889; died 27 Oct 1962
- Joseph H. Goldstein1888-1976American politician
- Joseph William Donner1894-1929Peerage person ID=279166
- Julia F. Snow1832-1911American writer
- Kyril Scherbatow1902-1993Russian nobleman
- Laura Catherine Spencer1810-1891
- Livingston Fryer1888-1960
- Lucile Scherbatow1915-1998
- Marian Roeder Heitmuller1892-1996American artist
- Melissa Dodge Pratt Fryer1854-1932Heiress
- Norma Emily Mack1894-19461894-1946
- Norman E. Mack II1926-2011American investment broker
- Phineas Spencer1794-1839
- Richard Augustus Peabody1860-1910
- Robert Keating1834-1915Buffalo, NY businessman
- Roger Cook Adams1874-1962
- Roger Keating Adams1905-1991
- Stuart Cary Welch1895-1959American architect and newspaper executive
- Victoria Sutherland1849-1902American vaudevillian singer
- William B. Depew1836-1899
- William C. Fargo1791-1878
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Lawn 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 Forest Lawn 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.
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