About Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery is a church cemetery near New York City, New York County, New York. The grounds sit at about 36 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 74 notable people buried here, including Robert Fulton, John Jacob Astor I and John Jacob Astor IV. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2057541. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ansu Funeral Home in New York, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 11 cemeteries we list in New York County, and 112 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New York County dates to 1869. 4 of the 11 listings in New York County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New York City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Trinity Church Cemetery
Among them: 8 US representatives, 7 business leaders, 7 writers, 3 scientists, 2 inventors and engineers, 2 journalists, 2 US senators, 2 War of 1812 veterans.
- Robert Fulton1765-1815American engineer and inventor
- John Jacob Astor I1763-1848German-American businessman
- John Jacob Astor IV1864-1912American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel
- Jerry Orbach1935-2004American actor and singer
- Albert Gallatin1761-1849Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar
- Madeleine Astor1893-1940American socialite and Titanic survivor
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton1757-1854American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Francis Lewis1713-1802Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales
- Hugh Williamson1735-1819American politician
- Angelica Schuyler Church1756-1814American socialite
- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor1830-1908American socialite
- William Alexander1726-1783Continental Army general
Show all 74 notable burials
- John Sloss Hobart1738-1805American statesman
- John Jacob Astor III1822-1890Union Army officer and capitalist
- Franklin Wharton1767-1818United States Marine Corps Commandant
- James Lawrence1781-1813American naval officer
- John Morin Scott1730-1784American politician, New York
- Philip Hamilton1782-1801Eldest child of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler
- Rita de Acosta Lydig1875-1929American socialite
- William Backhouse Astor, Jr.1829-1892American businessman, yachtsman, and racehorse owner/breeder
- William Backhouse Astor, Sr.1792-1875American businessman
- Marinus Willett1740-1830American mayor
- William A. Chanler1867-1934American politician
- John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace1672-1709English military officer, governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey
- John R. Fellows1832-1896American politician
- John Watts Jr.1749-1836American lawyer and politician from New York City
- Mary Alexander1693-1760British American merchant
- Eliza Jumel1775-1865American socialite
- John Alsop1724-1794American merchant and politician
- John J. Morgan1770-1849American politician
- Samuel Provoost1742-1815American bishop
- Samuel Ward1814-1884American lobbyist
- Thomas J. Oakley1783-1857American politician
- Charles L. Livingston1800-1873American politician
- Edward Holland1702-1756Mayor of New York City
- Elias Neau1662-1722British French-born Huguenot, religious educator
- Richard Morris1730-1810American lawyer and politician from New York
- Stephen Rochefontaine1755-1814United States Army officer
- Aaron Hackley1783-1868American politician
- Henry Cruger1739-1827Anglo-American politician
- John Duer1782-1852American jurist
- Simeon Draper1804-1866American politician
- William Bradford1663-1752Early English-born printer in North America
- James Nicholson1737-1804US Navy officer
- John Lamb1735-1800General
- John Ward1767-1816Intendent of Charleston, South Carolina, born 1767
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I1792-1854British-American Episcopal Bishop
- Thomas Fuller Potter1865-1948French rugby union player
- William Bayard Jr.1761-1826American banker
- Bache McEvers1798-1851American commission merchant, shipper, and insurer.
- Frederic James de Peyster1839-1905
- James Gordon1735-1783British Army officer (c. 1735-1783), fought in the American Revolutionary War
- John W. Mulligan1774-1862
- Philip Philipse1724-1768
- Stephen Fiske1840-1916American writer
- Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger1844-1898American soldier and financier
- Catherine Harris Smith Pembertondied 1751
- Don Alonzo Cushman1792-1875Millionaire of NYC
- Edward William Laight1773-18521773-1852
- Elizabeth Wolcott Gracie1795-1819
- Frederick Philipse1755-1829
- Gwendolyn Astor1889-1902
- John Rudolph Astor1881-1881
- Louisa Livingston1826-1876
- Maria Antoinette Kane1798-1869
- Mary L. Sewardborn 1815American poet 1815-1879
- Nathaniel Marston1704-177827 Mar 1704 - 21 Oct 1778
- Phebe Taylor Winthrop1765-1841
- Sarah Cornell Clarkson1762-1803
- Sarah Cruger Heyward1787-1868
- Sarah Livingston1725-1805(died 1805)
- Schuyler Livingston1772-1809
- William Seton1746-1798
- unnamed infant son Astor1802-1802(born 1802)
People whose Wikidata entry gives Trinity Church 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 Trinity Church 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
- Trinity ChurchyardNew York City, NYBaptist cemetery0.0 mi
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- St. Paul's ChurchyardNew York City, NYChristian cemetery0.3 mi
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- New York Marble Cemetery41 1/2 2nd Avenue, New York City, NYCemetery1.6 mi
- New York City Marble Cemetery74 East 2nd Street, New York City, NYCemetery1.7 mi
- Second Cemetery of Congregation Shearith IsraelNew York City, NYJewish cemetery2.0 mi
- Third Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese SynagogueNew York City, NYJewish cemetery2.5 mi
- Jersey City CemeteryJersey City, NJMunicipal cemetery2.6 mi
- Old Bergen Church CemeteryJersey City, NJChristian cemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Trinity Church Cemetery
- Ansu Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · New York · (646) 838-5182
- Chinese Wah Lai Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · New York · (212) 962-2230
- Wah Wing Sang Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · New York · (212) 962-0273
- Ng Fook Funeral Service, LLC0.8 miFuneral home · New York City
- Ng Fook Funeral Inc0.8 miFuneral home · New York · (212) 374-1003
- Boe Fook Funeral Services1.2 miFuneral home · New York · (212) 966-0218
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