About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a cemetery near Minetto, Oswego County, New York. It lies about 1.7 mi south of Minetto. The grounds sit at about 348 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 21 notable people buried here, including Luther W. Mott, David P. Brewster and John C. Churchill. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 962585. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Peters Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dowdle Funeral Home in Oswego, about 2.5 mi away. It is one of 124 cemeteries we list in Oswego County, and 38 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Oswego County dates to 1801. 1 of the 124 listings in Oswego County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Minetto. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 5 US representatives, 3 artists, 1 scientist, 1 writer.
- Luther W. Mott1874-1923American politician
- David P. Brewster1801-1876American politician
- John C. Churchill1821-1905American politician
- Newton W. Nutting1840-1889American politician
- Cheney Ames1808-1892American politician in New York
- Joel Turrill1794-1859American politician
- William F. Allen1808-1878New York politician and judge
- Edwin John Prittie1879-1963American illustrator
- Harriette Taylor Treadwell1870-1931American suffragist
- Henry Perry Smith1839-1925American historian
- Catherine Van Rensselaer Cochran1781-1857Daughter of Senator Philip Schuyler
- George B. Sloan1831-1904American politician
Show all 21 notable burials
- Thomas Hanford Wentworth1781-1849American painter, daguerreotypist, and entrepreneur
- Thomas Kingsford1799-1869(1799-1869) of T. Kingsford and Son, the Oswego Starch Co and the Kingsford Foundry and Machine Works of NY, USA. 1799 Born at Wickha...
- Emmet Carson Stopher1910-1983Ph.D. University of Iowa 1937
- Henry Swits Conde1844-1902Millionaire
- Max Ralston Morton1877-1911American artist
- Nancy Douglass1799-1877
- Stephen Mortimer Coon1845-1913American lawyer, politician, and businessman
- Thomas Ward1839-1926American military officer
- Thomson Kingsford1828-1900Millionaire
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverside 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
43.42332, -76.47796
What Riverside 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
- Saint Peters CemeteryOswego, NYCatholic cemetery0.8 mi
- Kingdom CemeteryMinetto, NYCemetery1.8 mi
- South Road Rural CemeteryOswego, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Hall CemeteryOswego, NY · est. 1801Cemetery1.9 mi
- Clark CemeteryOswego, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Fairview CemeteryMinetto, NYCemetery2.9 mi
- Old Irish CemeteryMinetto, NYCemetery3.1 mi
- Irish Settlement CemeteryMinetto, NYCemetery3.1 mi
- Mattison Cemetery2737 State Route 104, Oswego, NYCemetery3.1 mi
- Whittemore CemeteryMinetto, NYCemetery3.2 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- Dowdle Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Oswego · (315) 343-9010
- Nelson Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Oswego · (315) 343-0400
- Dain Cullinan Funeral Home Inc2.7 miFuneral home · Oswego · (315) 343-5120
- Sugar & Scanlon Funeral Home2.8 miFuneral home · Oswego · (315) 343-6941
- James A. Menter Funeral Home7.4 miFuneral home · Fulton · (315) 598-9491
- Brown Funeral Home7.4 miFuneral home · Fulton · (315) 887-1248
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