About Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery near New Windsor, Orange County, New York. The grounds sit at about 144 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 17 notable people buried here, including Joel Asaph Allen, Lyman Abbott and Senda Berenson Abbott. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 971665. The nearest other listed cemetery is Congregation Agudas Israel Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hudson Valley Funeral Home in New Windsor, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 114 cemeteries we list in Orange County, and 52 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Orange County dates to 1861. 1 of the 114 listings in Orange County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Windsor. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Woodlawn Cemetery
Among them: 2 basketball players, 2 physicians, 2 US representatives, 2 writers, 1 artist, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 journalist.
- Joel Asaph Allen1838-1921American zoologist and ornithologist
- Lyman Abbott1835-1922American theologian, editor, author
- Senda Berenson Abbott1868-1954Russian-American Hall of Fame basketball pioneer
- Benjamin Barker Odell Jr.1854-1926American politician
- James Clinton1736-1812American continental army general
- Peggy Hull1889-1967American journalist
- George M. Beebe1836-1927American politician
- Albert Henry Buck1842-1922American physician
- John Dash Van Buren, Jr.1838-1918American civil engineer
- John D. Van Buren1811-1885American merchant and politician
- George C. D. Odell1866-1949American theatrical scholar and college professor
- Albert Reid Ledoux1852-1923American mining engineer
Show all 17 notable burials
- Anthony Missere1947-2020American basketball player and coach
- Elvira Lynch Aymar1817-1898
- Herbert Vaughan Abbott1865-1929American academic
- Joseph Abner Harper1833-1910
- Joseph Pascal Thompson1818-18941818-1894 , AME bishop and physician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Woodlawn 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 Woodlawn 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
- Congregation Agudas Israel CemeteryNew Windsor, NYJewish cemetery0.1 mi
- Saint Francis CemeteryNew Windsor, NYCemetery0.2 mi
- Calvary CemeteryNew Windsor, NYCemetery0.8 mi
- Saint Georges CemeteryNewburgh, NYCemetery1.6 mi
- Saint Patrick's CemeteryNewburgh, NYChristian cemetery1.8 mi
- Temple Beth Jacob CemeteryNewburgh, NYJewish cemetery1.9 mi
- Willow Dell CemeteryCornwall, NYCemetery2.3 mi
- Old Town CemeteryNewburgh, NYMunicipal cemetery2.3 mi
- Saint Thomas Cemetery51 Mailler Avenue, Cornwall, NYCemetery2.4 mi
- Sands Ring CemeteryFirthcliffe, NYCemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Woodlawn Cemetery
- Hudson Valley Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · New Windsor · (845) 562-4411
- Alysia M. Hicks Funeral Services, Inc.0.3 miFuneral home · Peekskill · (845) 541-3012
- Rhodes Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · New Windsor · (845) 568-3121
- Rhodes Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Newburgh · (845) 569-1233
- Quigley-Sullivan Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Cornwall On Hudson · (845) 534-9424
- Brooks Funeral Home2.7 miFuneral home · Newburgh · (845) 561-8300
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