About Southampton Cemetery
Southampton Cemetery is a cemetery near Tuckahoe, Suffolk County, New York. The grounds sit at about 59 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 50 notable people buried here, including James A. Van Allen, Jack Dempsey and Tom Ewell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 965895. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sacred Hearts Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Brockett Funeral Home Inc in Southampton, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 216 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 26 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Suffolk County dates to 1826. 10 of the 216 listings in Suffolk County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Tuckahoe. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Southampton Cemetery
Among them: 5 architects, 4 artists, 3 actors, 3 inventors and engineers, 2 business leaders, 2 musicians, 2 writers, 1 aviator or astronaut.
- James A. Van Allen1914-2006American astrophysicist
- Jack Dempsey1895-1983American boxer
- Tom Ewell1909-1994American actor
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford1924-2006American socialite (1924-2006); younger sister of John F. Kennedy
- Roone Arledge1931-2002American sports and news broadcasting pioneer
- Rodman Wanamaker1899-1976American polo player
- Henry Augustus Reeves1832-1916American politician
- R. H. Robertson1849-1919American architect
- Seth Raynor1874-1926Golf course designer
- Goodhue Livingston1867-1951American architect
- Harry Whitney McVickar1860-1905American illustrator
- George Washington Martin II1876-1948American jurist (1876-1948); member of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn, New York
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- Pauline Sabin1887-1955American activist
- Theodore Gaillard Thomas1831-1903American gynaecologist
- Carrie Munn1898-1984American fashion designer
- Charles Hamilton Sabin1868-1933American banker
- Courtlandt Nicoll1880-1938American politician
- Edward Mellon1875-1953American architect
- Elizabeth Alexandra Morton1883-1964American philanthropist
- Orson Desaix Munn II1883-1958American editor and publisher
- Carl Andrew Capasso1945-2001Sewer contractor
- Catherine Murray di Montezemolo1925-2009Fashion editor
- Charles G. Francklyn1844-1929American capitalist and industrialist
- Cordelia Drexel Biddle1898-1984American socialite and writer
- Frances Miller1893-1985American painter
- George Barton French1864-1937American stockbroker and railroad president
- George Inness Hartley1887-1949American artist, ornithologist and author
- I. Chauncey McKeever1871-1938American stockbroker
- James Lawrence Breese1854-1931American stockbroker and amateur photographer
- James Lawrence Breese Jr.1885-1959American aviator and inventor
- John Walter Cross1878-1951American architect, 1878-1951
- Robert P. Breese1887-1958American automotive engineer
- Salem Howe Wales1825-1902American journalist, politician, and philanthropist
- Cornelia Haven1860-1926
- Edward Howe Wales1856-1922
- Fanny Kallir1899-1992Art dealer and gallery owner
- Frances "Fanny" Tileston Breese1858-1917
- Gladys Bradley Thaw1889-1956
- Goodhue Livingston Jr.1897-1994American investor and city planner
- John Kallir1923-2022US medical advertising executive; founded ad gency Kallir Philips Ross
- Katherine Gordon French1864-1951
- Lawrence McKeever Miller1889-1970
- Louise Stephanie Stewart Trevor1895-1975Socialite
- Newbold Morris1932-2020Political activist
- Stephen Peabody1858-1945
- Stephen Peabody Jr.1884-1962
- Steuart Davis1882-19551882-1955
- Sydney Salisbury Breese1883-1974American engineer
- T. Markoe Robertson1879-1962American architect
- Virginia Thaw1911-1997
People whose Wikidata entry gives Southampton 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
40.90049, -72.40379
What Southampton 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
- Sacred Hearts CemeteryTuckahoe, NYChristian cemetery0.1 mi
- North End CemeterySouthampton, NYCemetery1.0 mi
- Old Southampton CemeterySouthampton, NYCemetery1.6 mi
- North Sea Burial GroundNorth Sea, NYCemetery2.0 mi
- Flying Point CemeterySouthampton, NYCemetery2.4 mi
- Shinnecock Indian CemeteryShinnecock Hills, NYCemetery2.7 mi
- Water Mill CemeteryWater Mill, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Hay Ground CemeteryWater Mill, NYCemetery4.4 mi
- Mecox CemeteryWater Mill, NYCemetery4.9 mi
- Bridgehampton CemeteryBridgehampton, NYCemetery5.8 mi
Funeral homes near Southampton Cemetery
- Brockett Funeral Home Inc1.3 miFuneral home · Southampton · (631) 283-0822
- O'connell Rothwell Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Southampton · (631) 283-0098
- R J O'Shea Funeral Home Inc6.2 miFuneral home · Hampton Bays · (631) 728-3131
- J Ronald Scott Funeral Home Inc6.4 miFuneral home · Hampton Bays · (631) 728-3660
- Yardley and Pino Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Sag Harbor · (631) 725-0251
- Coster-Heppner Funeral Home9.2 miFuneral home · Cutchogue · (631) 734-7720
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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