About Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery near Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. It lies about 0.8 mi south of Sleepy Hollow. The grounds sit at about 102 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 253 notable people buried here, including Andrew Carnegie, Washington Irving and Nelson Rockefeller. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 965402. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old Dutch Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Coffey Funeral Home Inc in Tarrytown, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Westchester County, and 54 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 7 of the 116 listings in Westchester County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Sleepy Hollow. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Among them: 37 writers, 26 business leaders, 20 journalists, 15 artists, 12 actors, 9 US representatives, 7 architects, 6 scientists.
- Andrew Carnegie1835-1919Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
- Washington Irving1783-1859American writer, historian and diplomat
- Nelson Rockefeller1908-1979Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- Leo Baekeland1863-1944Belgium American inventor
- Alice Brady1892-1939American actress
- Thomas John Watson, Sr.1874-1956USA IBM executive and art collector
- Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.1875-1940(1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
- Carl Schurz1829-1906Union Army general, politician
- Elizabeth Arden1881-1966Canadian American businesswoman
- Madison Grant1865-1937American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist
- Charles Sheeler1883-1965American artist
- Samuel Gompers1850-1924(1850-1924) American labor leader (AFL)
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- Jasper Francis Cropsey1823-1900American painter
- Paul Warburg1868-1932American banker
- Leona Helmsley1919-2007American hotel owner
- Raymond Hood1881-1934American architect
- Brooke Astor1902-2007American philanthropist, socialite, and writer
- Holbrook Blinn1872-1928American actor
- Mary Lasker1900-1994American health activist, art collector and founder of Lasker Awards
- Viola Allen1867-1948American actress
- Floyd Crosby1899-1985American cinematographer
- Henry Drysdale Dakin1880-1952British chemist
- George Jones1811-1891American journalist who co-founded the New-York Daily Times
- Hans Zinsser1878-1940American physician, bacteriologist
- William Rockefeller1841-1922American financier, businessman, and Standard Oil co-founder
- Artur Bodanzky1877-1939American conductor
- Albert Lasker1880-1952American businessman
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr1831-1919English novelist
- Edgar Saltus1855-1921American writer
- Francis Pharcellus Church1839-1906American publisher and editor
- Whitelaw Reid1837-1912American journalist, diplomat and historian
- Mark Hellinger1903-1947American journalist, critic and film producer
- Maud Earl1864-1943British artist
- Parker Fennelly1891-1988Actor, comedian
- William Boyce Thompson1869-1930American engineer
- Henry Evelyn Bliss1870-1955American librarian
- James Smith Bush1825-1889American priest, lawyer and writer
- Joseph Urban1872-1933Austrian-American architect
- Ogden R. Reid1925-2019American politician
- Robert Livingston Beeckman1866-1935American politician
- Charles Dunsmore Millard1873-1944American politician
- Frank Moser1886-1964American film director
- Fred Keating1897-1961American magician
- Grace George1879-1961American stage actress
- Henry Carrington Bolton1843-1903American chemist and bibliographer of science
- Henry Villard1835-1900German-American journalist and financier
- Oswald Garrison Villard1872-1949American newspaper publisher
- Vincent Astor1891-1959American businessman and art collector
- Evert Augustus Duyckinck1816-1878United States publisher and biographer
- Fanny Garrison Villard1844-1928American suffragist
- Frank Arthur Vanderlip1864-1937American journalist
- Louise Whitfield Carnegie1857-1946Scottish-American philanthropist
- Madame Restell1812-1878American abortionist
- Margaret Carnegie Miller1897-1990American philanthropist
- Moses Hicks Grinnell1803-1877American politician
- Walter Smith Gurnee1813-1903American politician
- William Conant Church1836-1917Union United States Army officer
- William Sergeant Kendall1869-1938American painter
- Worcester Reed Warner1846-1929American engineer
- Albert Shaw1857-1947American journalist
- Belle Moskowitz1877-1933American activist
- Charles Augustus Strong1862-1940American philosopher, psychologist
- Cyrus Townsend Brady1861-1920American writer
- Herbert L. Osgood1855-1918American historian
- James Alexander Hamilton1788-1878American soldier and Secretary of State
- Louisa Lee Schuyler1837-1926American leader in charitable work
- Paul Leicester Ford1865-1902American novelist and biographer
- Peter A. Peyser1921-2014American politician
- Rudolf Cronau1855-1939German journalist and painter
- William A. Brady1863-1950American theater actor and producer
- William Harris Douglas1853-1944American politician, New York
- George Long Duyckinck1828-1868American writer
- Hamilton Wright Mabie1846-1916American writer
- Harry Helmsley1909-1997American businessman
- Heber R. Bishop1840-1902American businessman and art collector
- James Speyer1861-1941American banker
- John Dustin Archbold1848-1916American capitalist
- Julia Cruger1848-1920American writer
- Kent Cooper1880-1965American journalist
- Oscar R. Ewing1889-1980American lawyer and government official
- Percy Avery Rockefeller1878-1934American director
- Vincent Serrano1866-1935American actor
- Walker Whiteside1869-1942American actor
- William Adams Walker1805-1861American politician
- William Orton1826-1878American politician
- Daniel Draper1841-1931American meteorologist
- Darius Ogden Mills1825-1910American banker and philanthropist
- Donn Barber1871-1925American architect
- Edward Russell Thomas1875-1926American newspaper publisher
- Frank Hastings Hamilton1813-1886Union United States Army officer
- George Emerson Brewer1861-1939American surgeon and urologist
- Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge1882-1973Standard Oil heiress and philanthropist
- Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo1837-1914American heiress
- Helen Rogers Reid1882-1970American newspaper executive
- Henry Clapp Sherman1875-1955American chemist
- Henry Sloane Coffin1877-1954American minister
- Lolita Coffin Van Rensselaer1875-1947(1875-1947) wife of Lyndsay Van Rensselaer
- Louis Klopsch1852-1910German-American journalist and publisher
- Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr.1881-1963American businessman
- Maud Wilder Goodwin1856-1935American writer
- Ogden Mills Reid1882-1947American newspaper publisher who was president of the New York Herald Tribune
- Robertson Kirtland Mygatt1861-1919American artist
- William Irving1766-1821American politician
- Adam Badeau1831-1895American diplomat
- Albert Hamilton Kipp1850-1906American architect
- Bettina Warburg1900-1990American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
- Edgar Mayhew Bacon1855-1935American author
- Edgar William Garbisch1899-1979American businessman, art collector
- Edward Bowes1874-1946American radio personality
- Egerton Swartwout1870-1943American architect
- George Washington Olvany1876-1952American political figure
- Georgina Schuyler1841-1923American art patron and philanthropist
- J. C. Fargo1829-1915American businessman
- Levinus Monson1792-1859American jurist
- Malcolm Webster Ford1862-1902American decathlete
- Oswald Garrison Villard Jr.1916-2004American radar engineer
- Robert Havell1793-1878Principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America
- William E. Le Roy1818-1888American military personnel
- William Griggs Stahlnecker1849-1902American politician
- Angelica Hamilton1784-1857Second child and eldest daughter of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler-Hamilton
- David McAdam1838-1901US judge and writer
- Edward Hopper1818-1888Pastor
- Elisabeth Mills Reid1858-1931American philanthropist
- Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong1866-1906Eldest daughter of JDR
- Eugene H. Lehman1878-1972American educator and mayor
- Fay Fuller1869-1958American journalist and mountaineer
- Francis Saltus Saltus1849-1889American poet
- Frederick Trevor Hill1866-1930American lawyer and writer
- Gabriel Grant1826-1909Medal of Honor recipient and doctor
- George Washington Hill1884-1946American businessman
- H. Walter Webb1852-1900American railway executive
- Homer Lee1851-1923American artist
- Isabel Leighton1899-1995American writer and actress
- James S. Alexander1865-1932American banker
- John Reuben Bacon1866-1947American painter and illustrator
- John Taylor Terry1822-1913American businessman
- John Warne Herbert, Jr.1853-1934American football player
- Lewis Edward Lawes1883-1947American prison reformer
- Lydia Locke1884-1966Soprano singer from the United States, accused and acquitted of murdering her first husband
- Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr.1908-1930American heir
- Musya Sheeler1908-1981American artist
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell1828-1904American politician
- Pierre Munroe Irving1802-1876American lawyer and writer
- Rhinelander Waldo1877-1927New York City Fire and Police commissioner
- Temple Bowdoin1863-1914American businessman
- Theodore Whitmarsh1869-1936American businessman and politician
- V. Everit Macy1871-1930American industrialist and philanthropist, involved in local government
- William Howard Hoople1868-1922American businessman
- William Jay Schieffelin Jr.1891-1985
- William Sloane Coffin, Sr.1879-1933American merchant
- Addie Wilkins Jackson1875-1938American suffragist
- Alexander Hamilton, Jr.1816-1889American aide-de-camp and lawyer
- Alfred Bryan Hall1842-1923Engraver
- Alfrederick Smith Hatch1829-1904Financier
- Ann Elizabeth Bogart1843-1919(1843-1919) wife of Wilson Hunt Blackwell
- Augustus C. Gurnee1855-1926American socialite and art patron
- Bernice Chrysler1906-1979American heiress and art collector
- Carlo Edwards1889-1948American conductor, photographer, journalist, vocal coach
- Charles H. Fuller1859-1938American politician
- Constance Eastman1886-1919American actress
- David Augustus Costantini1875-1936Italian diplomat
- David Williams1841-1927American publisher
- Eliza Hamilton Holly1799-1859Daughter of Alexander Hamilton
- Eve Clendenin1896-1974American artist
- Evelyn Byrd Dows1912-1997Daughter of David Dows Jr. and Gwendolyn Burden
- Frederick Jackson1847-1915American politician
- George Sullivan Bowdoin1833-1913American businessman
- Harold Garrison Villard1869-1952American business executive
- Harry Mortimer Archer1868-1954Surgeon and inventor
- Homer G. Balcom1870-1938American civil engineer
- Jane Hedges Todd1890-1966American politician
- L. Emmett Holt Jr.1895-1974American pediatrician
- Lambert Lincoln Jackson1870-1952American mathematician
- Messmore Kendall1872-1959American theater owner and film producer
- Nona McAdoo Park1893-1971American businesswoman, co-founder of Chez Ninon
- Orlando J. Smith1842-1908American philosopher and agnostic
- Philip George Schuyler1836-1906
- Ransom H. Thomas1852-1922American banker
- Samuel Russell Thomas1840-1903American businessman
- Thomas Allison Smith1872-1924American surgeon
- Thomas M. Markoe1819-1901American surgeon
- William Goodsell Rockefeller1870-1922American businessman
- William Storrs Wells1849-1926American Businessman
- Wilson Hunt Blackwell1840-1895Husband of Ann Elizabeth Bogart
- Andrea Warburg1922-2009Member of Warburg family
- Angelica Livingston Hamilton1820-1896
- Ann Schabbehar Brennan1909-1975American illustrator, graphic artist, teacher
- Arthur Hugh Bunker1895-1964American business executive
- Arthur J. Morris1881-1973American banker and financier
- Arthur Tucker Ellsworth1882-1924
- Avery Rockefeller Jr.1924-1979American publishing executive
- Carl Lincoln Schurz1871-192428 Feb 1871 - 19 May 1924
- Caroline Sumner Wood1875-1959American sculptor
- Carroll Dunham Jr.1858-1922American physician
- Charles Henry Israels1865-1911American architect (1865-1911); active in New York
- Darragh Anderson Park1891-1953American banker
- David Ogden Bradley1827-1895Millionaire
- Dorothy Knight Colford1909-1973
- Ebenezer Irving1776-18681776 - 1868
- Edith Sanford Tillotson1876-1968American hymnwriter
- Edward Coleman Bull1807-1894Millionaire; Episcopal priest
- Edward Maitland Armstrong1905-1961
- Eliza Hamilton Schuyler1811-1863
- Elizabeth Bodanzky Muschenheim1910-1967
- Elizabeth Kip1784-18271784 - 1827
- Elizabeth Templeton Bishop1865-1934
- Emma Hayward1858-1944
- Euphemia Sloane1851-1919
- Ferdinand de Mohrenschildt1885-1919Russian diplomat
- Frederic Clark Sayles III1901-1933
- Frederic Clark Sayles Jr.1868-1929
- George C. Wood1878-1964American writer and educator
- George Sheffield1873-1916
- Geraldine Rockefeller McAlpin1900-1938
- Godfrey Nelson1878-1954Swedish-American tax lawyer, financial columnist, and executive
- Harriet Lowndes1838-1915
- Helen Colford Jones1825-1895
- Henry Walter Webb Jr.1886-1919American businessman
- Howard Carroll1854-1916American writer and militia officer
- Irwin Hewlett Cornell1881-1965Heir
- Isaac Colford Jones1793-1831Wealthy merchant
- Isabel Goodrich Stillman1876-1935
- James Duncan Phyfe1819-1876American businessman
- James F. Hall1823-1884American music publisher and Colonel in the 1st NY Engineers
- John Foster Archbold1877-1930American industrialist
- John Paterson Duncan1829-1901Millionaire
- John R. Bacon1825-1872
- Joseph Wesley Harper1827-1886American diplomat
- Julia Jermain Stoddard1875-1965
- Linda Dows1854-1903
- Margaret Esther Worcester1831-1909Peerage person ID=321268
- Mary Hamilton1790-1869
- Mildred Mitchell Farr1889-1926Daughter of Mary Mitchell Blair
- Norman Wilde1867-1936American academic
- Olivia Phelps James1837-1935Millionaire heiress
- Peter Smith Hoe1821-1902
- Rebecca Mason1803-1879
- Richard M. Hoe1849-1925Millionaire of New York
- Roswell Miller1894-1983American civil engineer and real-estate executive
- Rudolf Wunderlich1920-2004American art dealer
- Samuel B. Grimson1879-1955British violinist
- Sarah Ball League1876-1922Heiress
- Sarah Houstoun Fleming1867-191226 Dec 1867 Savannah, Ga. - 21 Feb 1912 Irvington, New York
- Sarah Sanders1738-18171738 - 1817
- Stuart Duncan1871-1957Heir
- Susan Burks Yuille1900-1978
- Susan Herter1863-1951
- Thomas Wentworth Storrow1805-1861
- Waters Smith Davis1868-1940
- William Irving1731-18071731 - 1807
- William Muschenheim1902-1990American architect
- William Rockefeller1918-1990American lawyer and great-grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr.
People whose Wikidata entry gives Sleepy Hollow 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 Sleepy Hollow 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
- Old Dutch CemeterySleepy Hollow, NYCemetery0.4 mi
- Rockefeller Family CemeterySleepy Hollow, NYFamily cemetery0.4 mi
- Sparta CemeteryOssining, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Broadway CemeteryHawthorne, NYCatholic cemetery3.4 mi
- Oak Hill CemeteryNyack, NYCemetery3.5 mi
- Gate of Heaven CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery3.6 mi
- Mount Pleasant CemeteryHawthorne, NYCemetery3.8 mi
- Mount Eden CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery3.9 mi
- Kensico CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery4.1 mi
- Nyack Rural CemeteryNyack, NYCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- Coffey Funeral Home Inc1.2 miFuneral home · Tarrytown · (914) 631-0983
- Dwyer & Michael's Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Tarrytown · (914) 631-0621
- Garlick Funeral Homes2.7 miFuneral home · Hawthorne · (914) 235-5341
- Riverside Memorial Chapel - Hawthorne2.7 miFuneral chapel · Hawthorne · (914) 664-6800
- Hannemann Funeral Home Inc3.1 miFuneral home · Nyack · (845) 358-0573
- Gate of Heaven Memorials3.5 miMonument dealer · Hawthorne · (914) 769-1452
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