About Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery is a cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. The grounds sit at about 230 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 51 notable people buried here, including Lyonel Feininger, Lucile Watson and Dion Boucicault. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 957836. The nearest other listed cemetery is Temple Israel Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hastings Funeral Home Inc in Hastings-on-Hudson, about 1.5 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Westchester County, and 67 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 7 of the 116 listings in Westchester County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Mount Hope Cemetery
Among them: 8 writers, 6 musicians, 5 actors, 4 artists, 4 business leaders, 4 Civil War veterans, 3 World War II veterans, 2 scientists.
- Lyonel Feininger1871-1956German-American painter
- Lucile Watson1879-1962Canadian actress
- Dion Boucicault1822-1890Irish actor and dramatist
- Sylvain Sylvain1951-2021American guitarist
- Mamie Phipps Clark1917-1983American psychologist
- Donald M. Blinken1925-2022American diplomat and businessman
- Carmen Cavallaro1913-1989American pianist
- Kenneth Clark1914-2005American psychologist
- Ernie Bushmiller1905-1982Cartoonist
- John Henry Dolph1835-1903American landscape and animal painter
- Thomas Jordan1819-1895Confederate Army general
- Thomas P. Ochiltree1837-1902American politician
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- Harry Lawrence Freeman1869-1954American composer
- Madeleine Smith1835-1928Accused in a murder trial in Scotland
- Nat Schachner1895-1955American writer
- Charles James Phillips1863-1940American philatelist
- Clarence Adler1886-1969American pianists
- A. A. Wyn1898-1967American publisher
- Aubrey Boucicault1869-1913British actor
- Danny Gardella1920-2005American baseball player
- Frederic Dannay1905-1982American mystery writer, co-creator of Barnaby Ross and Ellery Queen (joint pseudonyms)
- Herman Tarnower1910-1980American nutritionist and cardiologist
- Jacob A. Cantor1854-1921American politician
- Ocey Snead1885-1909American murder victim
- Alfred Harvey1913-1994Publisher
- Bill Todman1916-1979American television producer and personality born in New York City
- Byron Sylvester Waite1852-1930United States judge
- George Fried1877-1949British ship's captain
- Rose McClendon1884-1936American actress
- Sherwin Cody1868-1959American writer
- Gloria Sachs1927-2012American fashion designer
- Loren Singer1923-2009American writer
- Louis Evan Shipman1869-1933American playwright and novelist
- William Henry Parsons1826-1907Confederate Army officer
- Arto de Mirjian1902-1979Turkish-American photographer
- Charles B. Schaidner1850-1928American photographer
- Charles Stelzle1869-1941American clergyman, labor advocate, and writer
- Horace Hodes1907-1989American pediatrician and researcher
- Mary C. Martin Casey1836-1920American socialite and clubwoman
- Statistician
- Robert Maxwell Martin1840-1901Husband of Caroline Bell Wardlaw
- Stanley Wolfe1924-2009American composer and music teacher
- Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.1897-1974American businessperson and sailor
- Yenwith K. Whitney1924-2011Aeronautical engineer
- Abraham "A. Bern" Hirsh1858-1945Physician
- Bertha Richman Proskauer1860-1923
- Ellen Correl1930-2020Ph.D. Purdue University 1958
- Julius A. Sitgreaves1840-1912American Confederate Army soldier
- Raissa Berkmann1897-1955American activist
- René Clarke1886-1969American designer
- Wolfram E. Dreyfus1864-1949Consulting chemist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Hope 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
40.98796, -73.85598
What Mount Hope 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
- Temple Israel Cemetery388 Saw Mill River Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Westchester Hills Cemetery400 Saw Mill River Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, NYCemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Joseph CemeteryHastings-on-Hudson, NYCemetery1.2 mi
- Cooke Family CemeteryHastings-on-Hudson, NYFamily cemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryYonkers, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Historic Greenville CemeteryGreenville, NYCemetery2.4 mi
- Ferncliff CemeteryGreenburgh, NYCemetery3.0 mi
- Holy Mount CemeteryWykagyl, NYCemetery3.2 mi
- Saint Johns CemeteryYonkers, NYCemetery3.5 mi
- Oakland Cemetery2 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, NYCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Hope Cemetery
- Pulver-Heuss Memorials0.3 miMonument dealer · Hastings-on-Hudson · (914) 478-1430
- Hastings Funeral Home Inc1.5 miFuneral home · Hastings-on-Hudson · (914) 478-0600
- Lincoln Park Funeral Home Inc1.5 miFuneral home · Hastings-on-Hudson · (914) 963-1550
- Paradise Memorial Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Hastings-on-Hudson · (914) 478-2121
- Edwards-Dowdle Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Dobbs Ferry · (914) 693-3330
- Weinstein Memorial Chapel2.4 miFuneral chapel · Yonkers · (914) 793-3800
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Mount Hope Cemetery located?
Mount Hope Cemetery is at Jackson Avenue & Saw Mill River Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY in Westchester County. GPS coordinates: 40.98796, -73.85598.
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