About East Lawn Cemetery
East Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery near East Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. The grounds sit at about 942 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 23 notable people buried here, including Vladimir Karapetoff, Anthony Morse and Virgil Snyder. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 949155. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Olivet Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs in Ithaca, about 1.6 mi away. It is one of 80 cemeteries we list in Tompkins County, and 52 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, East Ithaca. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at East Lawn Cemetery
Among them: 7 scientists, 2 inventors and engineers, 1 business leader, 1 journalist.
- Vladimir Karapetoff1876-1948Russian-American electrical engineer, inventor, professor, and author
- Anthony Morse1911-1984American mathematician
- Virgil Snyder1869-1950American mathematician
- Ruby Green Smith1878-1960American entomologist, peace campaigner and home economics educator
- Clark Sutherland Northup1872-1952Cornell Professor of English
- Frank Hindman Golay1915-1990American economist
- George Frederick Warren1874-1938Economist
- Albert Russell Mann1880-1947American educator
- Louis Munroe Dennis1863-1936American chemist
- Robert H. Treman1858-1937American banker
- William C. Geer1876-1964American chemist
- Andrew Curtis White1854-1936American librarian and classical scholar
Show all 23 notable burials
- Clyde Firman Craig1881-1964Ph.D. Cornell University 1908
- Donald P. Hayes1927-2006
- Edna Rublee Clausen1918-1993American botanical collector
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- F. F. Hill1900-1988Economist, Governor of the Farm Credit Administratio
- Lawrence B. Darrah1915-2004Economist
- Lisle L. Longsdorf1901-1991American broadcaster
- Louis Bement1865-19331865-1933
- Millie Timmerman1867-1942American botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator
- Robert E. Treman1888-195321 Apr 1888 - certain 17 Oct 1953
- William Nichols Barnard1875-1947American engineer
People whose Wikidata entry gives East 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.
Map
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What East 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.
Nearby cemeteries
- Mount Olivet CemeteryEast Ithaca, NYCemetery0.7 mi
- Ithaca City CemeteryIthaca, NYMunicipal cemetery1.3 mi
- Lake View CemeteryCayuga Heights, NYCemetery1.8 mi
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryCayuga Heights, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- South Hill CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery2.6 mi
- Kings CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Calvary CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery3.3 mi
- Roe CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery4.1 mi
- Inlet Valley CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery4.2 mi
- Brown CemeteryLansing, NYCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near East Lawn Cemetery
- Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs1.6 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (585) 356-4929
- Herson-Wagner Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-2300
- Bangs Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-1922
- Lansing Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Lansing · (607) 533-8600
- Perkins Funeral Home9.1 miFuneral home · Dryden · (607) 844-8161
- Shurtleff Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Groton · (607) 898-3577
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