About Montrepose Cemetery
Montrepose Cemetery is a cemetery near Kingston, Ulster County, New York. The grounds sit at about 226 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 18 notable people buried here, including Calvert Vaux, Maryanne Amacher and Jervis McEntee. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 957564. The nearest other listed cemetery is Wiltwyck Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Henry J Bruck Funeral Home Inc in Kingston, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 83 cemeteries we list in Ulster County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Ulster County dates to 1845. 10 of the 83 listings in Ulster County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Kingston. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Montrepose Cemetery
Among them: 6 artists, 2 US representatives, 2 writers, 1 architect, 1 journalist, 1 musician.
- Calvert Vaux1824-1895Anglo-American architect
- Maryanne Amacher1938-2009American composer and installation artist
- Jervis McEntee1828-1891American painter
- Arthur Sherwood Flemming1905-1996American academic and politician
- Anton Otto Fischer1882-1962American artist
- Thomas Cornell1814-1890American politician and businessman, major in the New York Militia
- Walter B. Gibson1897-1985Pulp writer and magician
- Mary Ellen Sigsbee Fischer1876-1960American painter, photographer, illustrator
- Francis Luis Mora1874-1940North American artist
- James Girard Lindsley1819-1898American politician
- Jeneverah M. Winton1837-1904American author, poet
- Edgar Melville Ward Jr.1887-1943American painter
Show all 18 notable burials
- Daniel Goldreyer1927-2009USA art restorer
- Edward Coykendall1871-1949American arts patron
- Gertrude McEntee1834-1878
- John Henry Cordts1822-1891Millionaire
- Mary Augusta Cornell1842-1919Millionaire heiress
- Nellie L. Cornell1854-1902Millionaire heiress
People whose Wikidata entry gives Montrepose 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 Montrepose 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
- Wiltwyck Cemetery205 West O'Reilly Street, Kingston, NY · est. 1857Church cemetery0.5 mi
- Saint Peters Cemetery96 Pine Grove Avenue, Kingston, NYCatholic cemetery0.5 mi
- Sharp Burial Ground144 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NYCemetery1.1 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryKingston, NYChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Riverview CemeteryPort Ewen, NYCemetery1.8 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryLincoln Park, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery18 Loftus Road, Rhinecliff, NYCatholic cemetery2.5 mi
- Saint Joseph CemeteryPort Ewen, NYCemetery2.5 mi
- Hurley Cemetery69-91 Zandhoek Road, Hurley, NY · est. 1851Cemetery3.1 mi
- Old Hurley Burial GroundHurley, NYCemetery3.3 mi
Funeral homes near Montrepose Cemetery
- Henry J Bruck Funeral Home Inc0.6 miFuneral home · Kingston · (845) 331-0370
- Joseph V. Leahy Funeral Home, Inc.0.8 miFuneral home · Kingston · (845) 331-3272
- Keyser Carr Simpson Hammerl Funeral & Cremation Service1.4 miCremation provider · Kingston · (845) 331-1473
- K L Keyser Memorials1.4 miMonument dealer · Kingston · (845) 331-4800
- Simplicity Funeral & Cremation Care1.5 miCremation provider · Port Ewen · (845) 802-4614
- Keyser Carr Simpson Hammerl Funeral & Cremation Service1.5 miCremation provider · Esopus · (845) 331-1473
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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