About Brookside Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery is a cemetery near Watertown, Jefferson County, New York. It lies about 2.7 mi north of Watertown. The grounds sit at about 568 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 47 notable people buried here, including Robert Lansing, Lester Frank Ward and Hilda Clark. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 944872. The nearest other listed cemetery is Degel Israel Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is D.L. Calarco Funeral Home in Watertown, about 2.3 mi away. It is one of 125 cemeteries we list in Jefferson County, and 34 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Watertown. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Brookside Cemetery
Among them: 8 US representatives, 3 writers, 2 business leaders, 2 journalists, 1 actor, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 governor, 1 scientist.
- Robert Lansing1864-1928American politician
- Lester Frank Ward1841-1913American sociologist and paleontologist
- Hilda Clark1872-1932American model and actress
- Roswell Pettibone Flower1835-1899American politician
- Charles Woodruff Yost1907-1981American diplomat
- Charles R. Skinner1844-1928American politician
- Albert D. Shaw1841-1901American politician
- Ambrose W. Clark1810-1887American politician
- Willard Ives1806-1896American politician
- Bradley Winslow1831-1914United States Army general and politician
- Stephen Strong1791-1866American politician
- Alice D. Snyder1887-1943American professor of English and suffragist
Show all 47 notable burials
- Frederick Lansing1838-1894American politician
- John Safford Fiske1838-1907U.S. diplomat involved in an homosexual scandal
- Martin Burgoyne1963-1986British artist
- Orville Hungerford1790-1851American politician and industrialist
- James F. Starbuck1815-1880American lawyer and politician
- John Winslow1802-1874American politician and soldier
- Norris M. Winslow1835-1900American businessman and industrialist
- Homer E. A. Dick1884-1942American politician
- Pardon Clarence Williams1842-1925American lawyer and politician
- Robert Lansing1799-1878American lawyer and politician
- Samuel H. Hammond1809-1878American politician
- Clara Sargent Peck1896-1983American bibliophile and philanthropist
- Eleanor Foster Lansing1866-1934
- Floyd L. Carlisle1881-1942American businessman
- John Cooper Winslow1856-1890American lawyer
- Joseph Mullin1848-1897American politician
- William G. Johnston1828-1913American publisher
- Betsey Winslow1847-1931American woman
- Charlotte Winslow1806-1861American woman
- Charlotte Winslow1859-1897American woman
- Delavan D. Perkins1827-1865West Point graduate, class of 1849
- Edmund Quincy Sewall1826-1892
- Elijah Horr1841-1904American pastor
- Florence Winslow1866-1952American woman
- Frederic R. Halsey1847-1918American lawyer and art collector
- Geraldine M. Cooper1827-1896American woman
- John Cooper Upham1900-1968American man
- John Quincy Adams1849-1940Librarian at Auburn Theological Seminary
- Lucina M. Eddy1819-1904American woman
- Olymphia Cavanaugh1829-1911American dressmaker, mineral and fossil collector
- Poppie Holmes Burdick1860-1928American woman
- Samuel Allen Upham1867-1958American manufacturer
- Sarah Morse Woodruff Flower1836-1910First Lady of State of New York
- Titus Ives1778-1847American man
- William Schley1823-1882Judge
People whose Wikidata entry gives Brookside 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 Brookside 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
- Degel Israel CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Glenwood CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery0.6 mi
- Massey Street CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery2.5 mi
- Arsenal Street CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Calvary CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery3.4 mi
- Fields Settlement CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery3.6 mi
- North Watertown CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery3.7 mi
- Underwood CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery4.1 mi
- Zoar CemeteryAdams Center, NYCemetery5.1 mi
- Sandy Lawn CemeteryWatertown, NYCemetery5.2 mi
Funeral homes near Brookside Cemetery
- D.L. Calarco Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Watertown · (315) 782-4910
- Cleveland Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Watertown · (315) 788-6180
- Cummings Funeral Service, Inc.2.5 miFuneral home · Watertown · (315) 782-0830
- Reed & Benoit Funeral Home, Inc.2.5 miFuneral home · Watertown · (315) 782-6580
- Tlc Funeral Home Inc3.5 miFuneral home · Watertown · (315) 779-8525
- Bruce Funeral Home8.0 miFuneral home · Black River · (315) 773-5932
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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