About Maple Grove Cemetery
Maple Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near Queens, Queens County, New York. It lies about 2.0 mi south of Queens. The grounds sit at about 89 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 31 notable people buried here, including Sam Loyd, Don Marquis and Anthony Mason. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 956395. The nearest other listed cemetery is Grace Episcopal Churchyard, about 1.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Sinai Chapels in Forest Hills, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Queens County, and 90 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 20 of the 49 listings in Queens County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Queens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Maple Grove Cemetery
Among them: 6 actors, 4 musicians, 3 artists, 2 basketball players, 2 US representatives, 2 writers, 1 architect, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Sam Loyd1841-1911American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician
- Don Marquis1878-1937American humorist
- Anthony Mason1966-2015American basketball player
- Josef Lhévinne1874-1944Russian pianist
- Irving Rapper1898-1999English-American film director
- Max Gerson1881-1959German physician, originator of Gerson Therapy
- Dana Dawson1974-2010American actress, singer
- Kyle Jean-Baptiste1993-2015Broadway actor
- Mia Amber Davis1974-2011American film actress and model
- Theresa Merritt1924-1998American actress
- Albert H. Bosch1908-2005American congressman for New York
- James H. Cassidy1869-1926American politician
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- Kate Claghorn1863-1938American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist
- Martin Branner1888-1970Cartoonist
- George Coles Stebbins1846-1945American gospel songwriter
- Sonny Dove1945-1983American basketball player
- James E. Ware1846-1918Architect from New York City
- Leslie Kaliades1961-1999American photographer
- Edward F. O'Dwyer1860-1922American judge
- Eleanor Cunningham Bannister1858-1939American portrait painter
- Sándor Bernhart1889-1984Hungarian lawyer, local politician, mayor
- Charles B. Bishopdied 1889American actor and comedian
- Christopher J. Pickford1969-2001American firefighter (FDNY), first responder and victim of the September 11 attacks
- Edward Bunnell Phelps1863-1915American publisher and politician
- Elisabeth Riis1852-1905
- Shana Yardan1943-1989Poet
- William H. Zerbe1864-1943American photographer
- Frank Gabrin1959-2020First ER physician to die in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- Garret James Garretson1847-1922American judge
- Henry Walter Stikeman1850-1932American book binder, born in England
- Victor Arthur Erich Daecke1863-1918German born American entomologist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Maple Grove 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
40.70926, -73.82347
What Maple Grove 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
- Grace Episcopal ChurchyardQueens, NYEpiscopal cemetery1.2 mi
- Prospect CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery1.4 mi
- Saint Monica's CemeteryQueens, NYCatholic cemetery1.5 mi
- Wyckoff Snediker Family CemeteryQueens, NYFamily cemetery1.6 mi
- Methodist CemeteryQueens, NYMethodist cemetery1.6 mi
- Remsen Family CemeteryQueens, NYFamily cemetery1.8 mi
- Cedar Grove Cemetery130-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Queens, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Mount Hebron Cemetery130-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Queens, NYJewish cemetery1.9 mi
- Saint John Cemetery80-01 Metropolitan Avenue, Queens, NYCatholic cemetery2.3 mi
- Willet Family Burial GroundQueens, NYFamily cemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Maple Grove Cemetery
- Sinai Chapels0.8 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 445-0300
- Parkside Memorial Chapels0.8 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 896-9000
- Jeffer Funeral Homes0.8 miFuneral home · Flushing · (718) 793-3883
- Schwartz Brothers Jeffer Memorial Chapels0.8 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 263-7600
- Forest Park Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 263-0800
- Leo F. Kearns Funeral Directors0.9 miFuneral home · Queens
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Maple Grove Cemetery located?
Maple Grove Cemetery is at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Queens, NY 11415 in Queens County. GPS coordinates: 40.70926, -73.82347.
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