About Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Pleasant Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near Cayuga Heights, Tompkins County, New York. The grounds sit at about 935 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 15 notable people buried here, including Hans Bethe, Peter Debye and Thomas Gold. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 960707. The nearest other listed cemetery is Lake View Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs in Ithaca, about 2.1 mi away. It is one of 80 cemeteries we list in Tompkins County, and 46 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 80 listings in Tompkins County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cayuga Heights. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Among them: 5 scientists, 3 writers, 2 inventors and engineers, 2 Nobel laureates, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Hans Bethe1906-2005German-American nuclear physicist
- Peter Debye1884-1966Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist
- Thomas Gold1920-2004Austrian astrophysicist
- Alison Lurie1926-2020American novelist and academic
- Archie Randolph Ammons1926-2001American poet
- Herbert J. Davenport1861-1931American economist
- Gilbert Dennison Harris1864-1952American paleontologist
- William Strunk, Jr.1869-1946American professor of English literature and writer
- Paul West1930-2015US/British novelist
- Charles Roy Henderson1911-1989American biostatistician and pioneer in animal breeding
- Michael Kammen1936-2013American historian
- Charles Edwin Bennett1858-1921American classical scholar
Show all 15 notable burials
- Lawrence Edward Payne1923-2011American mathematician
- Frank Irvine1858-1931American judge
- Roger H. Farrell1929-2017American statistician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Pleasant Grove 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
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What Pleasant Grove 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
- Lake View CemeteryCayuga Heights, NYCemetery1.0 mi
- Ithaca City CemeteryIthaca, NYMunicipal cemetery1.5 mi
- East Lawn CemeteryEast Ithaca, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryEast Ithaca, NYCemetery2.1 mi
- Brown CemeteryLansing, NYCemetery2.5 mi
- West Hill CemeteryNorthwest Ithaca, NYCemetery3.4 mi
- Calvary CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery3.8 mi
- Kings CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery4.0 mi
- Asbury CemeteryLansing, NYCemetery4.3 mi
- South Hill CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery4.4 mi
Funeral homes near Pleasant Grove Cemetery
- Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs2.1 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (585) 356-4929
- Herson-Wagner Funeral Home2.1 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-2300
- Bangs Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-1922
- Lansing Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Lansing · (607) 533-8600
- Perkins Funeral Home9.1 miFuneral home · Dryden · (607) 844-8161
- Shurtleff Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Groton · (607) 898-3577
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