About Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Utica, Oneida County, New York. It lies about 1.9 mi northeast of Utica. The grounds sit at about 810 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 84 notable people buried here, including James S. Sherman, Horatio Seymour and Roscoe Conkling. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 950398. The nearest other listed cemetery is New Forest Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dimpleby Funeral Home in Utica, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 145 cemeteries we list in Oneida County, and 60 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Utica. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Hill Cemetery
Among them: 15 US representatives, 5 writers, 4 baseball players, 4 Civil War veterans, 4 journalists, 2 governors, 2 physicians, 2 scientists.
- James S. Sherman1855-1912American politician and Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912
- Horatio Seymour1810-1886American politician
- Roscoe Conkling1829-1888American politician
- Samuel Wells Williams1812-1884U.S. linguist, missionary, diplomat, naturalist and Sinologist
- Carrie Babcock Sherman1856-1931Second lady of the United States
- Harold Frederic1856-1898American journalist, novelist
- Ward Hunt1810-1886American politician
- Ellis H. Roberts1827-1918American politician
- Hardy Richardson1855-1931Major League Baseball player
- Alfred Conkling1789-1874United States federal judge
- Edward W. Townsend1855-1942American politician
- Wilford Bacon Hoggatt1865-1938American naval officer and sixth Governor of the District of Alaska
Show all 84 notable burials
- Charles A. Talcott1857-1920American politician
- James R. Sheffield1864-1938American attorney and diplomat
- Benjamin Davis Gilbert1835-1907American botanist and journalist
- Benjamin Walker1753-1813Continental Army officer and congressman
- Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop1858-1916American Delsartean lecturer and instructor
- Ezekiel Bacon1776-1870American politician
- Talcott Williams1849-1928American journalist
- William J. Bacon1803-1889American politician
- Alexander Bryan Johnson1786-1867United States philosopher and banker
- Alexander S. Johnson1817-1878American judge
- Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.1880-1957United States federal judge
- Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr.1847-1923American judge
- John Savage1779-1863American politician and lawyer
- Orsamus B. Matteson1805-1889American politician
- Samuel Beardsley1790-1860American politician
- Biff Schlitzer1884-1948American baseball player
- Harvey Putnam1793-1855American politician
- James Wickes Taylor1819-1893American diplomat
- Joseph Kirkland1770-1844American politician
- Merwin K. Hart1881-1962American politician
- Samuel Livingston Breese1794-1870United States Navy admiral
- Thomas H. Hubbard1781-1857American judge
- Agnes O'Malley1891-1980Wife of Oscar Louis Naetzker
- Alonzo Breitenstein1857-1932American baseball player
- Charles B. Mason1873-1935American football coach
- Charles Tyler Olmstead1842-1924American clergyman (1842-1924); bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1904 to 1924
- James pp1832-1882Union United States Army general
- Jedediah Sanger1751-1829American landowner and politician
- Joshua A. Spencer1790-1857American politician
- Simon Willard1753-1848American clockmaker
- William H. Christian1825-1887United States Army colonel
- William Williams1787-1850American printer and publisher
- Bianca Devins2001-2019American homicide victim
- Charles Winfield Pilgrim1855-1934American psychiatrist
- David Jones1861-1937American professional baseball player
- George Huntington Williams1856-1894American geologist
- Henry Wells Rockwell1818-1879
- James G. Grindlay1840-1907United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- John Camp Williams1859-1929American manufacturer
- John Cochran1730-1807American physician (1730-1807); Surgeon General of the United States Army from 1781 to 1783
- Mannevillette Elihu Dearing Brown1810-1896American painter and engraver
- Moses Mears Bagg1816-1900American author
- Robert Stanton Williams1828-1899American business executive
- Theodore S. Sayre1837-1916American businessman and politician
- William Frederic Williams1818-1871American Presbyterian minister
- A. Macomb Miller1843-1904West Point graduate; class of 1865
- Abigail Louisa Smith Adams1798-1836Granddaughter of U.S. president John Adams
- Edward Seward Williams1821-1865
- Edwin Hutchinson1840-1887American general surgeon and ophthalmologist
- Egbert Bagg1850-1915American ornithologist
- Ella Virginia Bristol Dering1842-1929
- Frederick H. Hazard1865-1958American judge
- Henry Dwight Williams1815-18971815-1895
- Henry Dwight Williams Gardner1854-1883American physician
- Henry Hatch Curtiss1817-1902American printer
- Ichabod Smith Spencer1780-1857
- Isaac Newton Maynard1849-1936American businessman
- James V. P. Gardner1808-1882Utica, New York, businessman
- James Watson Williams1810-1873
- Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling1827-1893
- Margaret Field Maynard1849-19291849-1929
- Mary Jane Seymour Miller1807-18371807-1837
- Mary Louisa Adams1828-1859Granddaughter of U.S. president John Quincy Adams
- Mary Smith Crane Gird1773-1864
- Morris Smith Miller1814-1870US Brigadier General 1814-1870
- Nicoll Havens Dering1794-1867Physician 1794-1867
- Nicoll Havens Dering1865-18691865-69
- Samuel Hanson Coxe1819-1895Born 1820?; died 1895
- Sarah Sophia Kellogg1832-1919
- Sophia Wells Williams1821-19031821-1903
- Sylvester Dering1838-1923Lawyer and manufacturer, Utica NY, 1838-1923
- Viola Brownell Baldwin1897-1988USA teacher and art collector
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Hill 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 Forest Hill 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
- New Forest CemeteryUtica, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- House of Israel CemeteryNew Hartford, NYCemetery0.4 mi
- Calvary CemeteryNew Hartford, NYCemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Agnes CemeteryUtica, NYCemetery1.4 mi
- East Hill CemeteryWashington Mills, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryUtica, NYCemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Joseph's CemeteryYorkville, NYCemetery2.0 mi
- Holy Trinity CemeteryYorkville, NYCemetery2.2 mi
- Glenside CemeteryNew York Mills, NYCemetery2.6 mi
- Sherman CemeteryUtica, NYCemetery3.4 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Hill Cemetery
- Dimpleby Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Utica
- Revels T-Gibson Funeral Services1.4 miFuneral home · Utica · (315) 732-2016
- McGrath, Myslinski, Kowalczyk & Nunn Funeral Directors1.6 miFuneral home · Utica · (315) 797-1900
- Kowalczyk Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Utica · (315) 732-8320
- Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral and Cremation Services1.8 miCremation provider · New Hartford · (315) 724-6105
- bentz funeral home1.8 miFuneral home · New Hartford · (315) 724-2731
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