About Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery near Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York. It lies about 1.3 mi south of Jamestown. It was established in 1859. The grounds sit at about 1,453 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 18 notable people buried here, including Lucille Ball, Charles Goodell and Reuben Fenton. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 954948. The nearest other listed cemetery is Holy Cross Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Powers Present & Sixbey Funeral Home, Inc. in Jamestown, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 120 cemeteries we list in Chautauqua County, and 40 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Chautauqua County dates to 1827.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Jamestown. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lake View Cemetery
Among them: 6 US representatives, 3 business leaders, 3 Medal of Honor recipients, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 US senators, 1 actor, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Lucille Ball1911-1989American actress
- Charles Goodell1926-1987American politician
- Reuben Fenton1819-1885American politician
- Benjamin Goodrich1841-1888Founder of B.F. Goodrich Company
- Porter Sheldon1831-1908American politician
- Chapin Hall1816-1879American politician
- Abner Hazeltine1793-1879American politician
- Henri Le Fevre Brown1842-1910Medal of Honor recipient
- Richard P. Marvin1803-1892American judge
- Edgar Pierpont Putnam1844-1921United States soldier of the civil war period
- J. Samuel Fowler1874-1961American politician and lawyer
- James M. Young1843-1913Medal of Honor recipient
Show all 18 notable burials
- Mary E. Hazeltine1868-1949American librarian
- Samuel A. Brown1795-1863American politician
- Charles Mason Dow1854-1920
- Dora Catherine Wright1887-1966
- Elizabeth S. Thompson1867-1899Heiress
- Louis Lorenzo Roberts1875-1954
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lake View 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 Lake View 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
- Holy Cross CemeteryJamestown, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryJamestown, NYCemetery0.6 mi
- Hollenbeck CemeteryJamestown, NYCemetery1.8 mi
- Pine Hill CemeteryFalconer, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryFalconer, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Fluvanna CemeteryCeloron, NY · est. 1827Cemetery2.7 mi
- Wilcox CemeteryJamestown West, NYCemetery3.3 mi
- Sunset Hill CemeteryJamestown West, NYCemetery3.5 mi
- Levant CemeteryFalconer, NYCemetery3.7 mi
- Ross Mills CemeteryFalconer, NYCemetery3.8 mi
Funeral homes near Lake View Cemetery
- Powers Present & Sixbey Funeral Home, Inc.1.1 miFuneral home · Jamestown · (716) 664-5300
- Powers Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Jamestown
- Hubert Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Jamestown · (716) 483-1902
- Lind Funeral Home Inc1.7 miFuneral home · Jamestown · (716) 664-3800
- Falconer Funeral Home Inc.2.0 miFuneral home · Falconer · (716) 665-3401
- Peterson Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Frewsburg · (716) 569-5405
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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