About Maplewood Cemetery
Maplewood Cemetery is a cemetery near Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It lies about 1.5 mi east of Durham. The grounds sit at about 384 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 30 notable people buried here, including Janis Carter, Charles A. Ellwood and Jacob E. Long. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 989325. The nearest other listed cemetery is Duke University Chapel Crypt, about 0.9 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Crematory in Durham, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 24 cemeteries we list in Durham County, and 35 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Durham. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Maplewood Cemetery
Among them: 5 football players, 3 musicians, 2 basketball players, 2 business leaders, 2 World War II veterans, 1 actor, 1 baseball player, 1 Civil War veteran.
- Janis Carter1913-1994American actress, singer & television personality
- Charles A. Ellwood1873-1946United States sociologist
- Jacob E. Long1880-1955American politician
- Benjamin F. Ward1948-2013American philosopher
- Calvin B. Hoover1897-1974American economist
- Doc Adkins1872-1934American baseball player
- Eddie Cameron1902-1988American football and basketball player, coach, college athletics administrator
- George Watts Hill1901-1993American businessman
- John Sprunt Hill1869-1961American private banker and politician, North Carolina
- Mary Duke Biddle1887-1960American philanthropist
- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans1920-2012American heiress and philanthropist
- Wallace Wade1892-1986American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach
Show all 30 notable burials
- Gerry Gerard1903-1951American basketball and soccer coach
- Tom Rogers1910-1990American football player and coach, baseball coach
- Charles Markham1926-2010American politician
- Floyd Millard Riddick1908-2000American political scientist
- James H. Southgate1859-1916American vice-presidential candidate
- Jim Camp1924-2002American football player
- William Thomas Laprade1883-1975
- D. W. Newsom1873-1949American academic administrator and author
- Edward Tyler Rollins1922-2006American newspaper executive
- Egbert Lynch Haywood1911-1985American lawyer
- George Sharpe Eadie1895-1976
- James E. Davis1918-1997American surgeon
- James H. Semans1910-2005American urologist and philanthropist in arts and arts-education in North Carolina
- Kemp Plummer Lewis1880-1952American textile executive
- Lucielle Browning1913-2011American opera singer
- N. A. Ramsey1827-1906Businessman, Confederate soldier
- Robert S. Smith1904-1969American economic historian
- Robert Samuel Rogers1900-1968American classical philologist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Maplewood 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 Maplewood 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
- Duke University Chapel CryptDurham, NCChurch cemetery0.9 mi
- Cedar Hill CemetaryDurham, NCCemetery1.6 mi
- Durham Muslim CemeteryDurham, NCMuslim cemetery1.9 mi
- Geer Cemetery800 Colonial Street, Durham, NCCemetery2.6 mi
- Beechwood CemeteryDurham, NCCemetery2.6 mi
- Glenview Memorial ParkDurham, NCMemorial park3.3 mi
- Woodlawn Memorial ParkDurham, NCMemorial park3.5 mi
- Bennitt Family CemetaryDurham, NCCemetery3.5 mi
- Cabe-Shields-McGowan CemeteryDurham, NCCemetery4.9 mi
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church CemeteryChapel Hill, NCBaptist cemetery4.9 mi
Funeral homes near Maplewood Cemetery
- Durham Marble Works0.4 miMonument dealer · Durham · (919) 489-2134
- Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Crematory0.9 miCremation provider · Durham · (919) 688-6387
- Professional Mortuary1.1 miMortuary · Durham · (919) 286-2576
- Clements Funeral Service Inc1.5 miFuneral home · Durham · (919) 286-1224
- Burthey Funeral Service1.8 miFuneral home · Durham · (919) 682-0327
- Ellis D. Jones and Sons Funeral Directors2.0 miFuneral home · Durham · (919) 688-1323
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