About Chestnut Hill Cemetery
Chestnut Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It lies about 1.0 mi northeast of Salisbury. The grounds sit at about 758 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including Sidney Blackmer, Lee Slater Overman and Suzanne Kaaren. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 983109. The nearest other listed cemetery is Salisbury National Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hairston Funeral Home Inc in Salisbury, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 22 cemeteries we list in Rowan County, and 22 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 22 listings in Rowan County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Salisbury. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Chestnut Hill Cemetery
Among them: 4 US representatives, 2 actors, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 US senator, 1 World War I veteran, 1 writer.
- Sidney Blackmer1895-1973American actor
- Lee Slater Overman1854-1930American politician
- Suzanne Kaaren1912-2004American actress
- John Steele1764-1815American politician
- John S. Henderson1846-1916American politician
- Frances Tiernan1846-1920American writer
- Francis Edwin Shober1831-1896American politician
- Theodore F. Kluttz1848-1918American politician
- Edwin Clarke Gregory1874-1948American lawyer and legislator
- Grace McDowell Overman1896-1995
- John A. Ramsay1836-1909Surveyor, civil engineer, Confederate soldier, mayor
- Margaret Overman1880-1964
Show all 13 notable burials
- Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless1851-1920American industrialist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Chestnut 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 Chestnut 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
- Salisbury National Cemetery501 Statesville Boulevard, Salisbury, NCNational cemetery0.6 mi
- Dixonville CemeterySalisbury, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Old English CemeterySalisbury, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Union Hill CemeterySalisbury, NCCemetery1.3 mi
- Memorial Park CemeterySalisbury, NCMemorial park1.4 mi
- Old Lutheran CemeterySalisbury, NCLutheran cemetery1.4 mi
- Salisbury National Cemetery AnnexSalisbury, NCNational cemetery1.8 mi
- Shiloh CemeteryGranite Quarry, NCCemetery2.7 mi
- Wittenberg CemeteryGranite Quarry, NCCemetery3.4 mi
- Antioch CemeteryGranite Quarry, NCCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Chestnut Hill Cemetery
- Hairston Funeral Home Inc0.5 miFuneral home · Salisbury · (704) 638-6464
- Cremation Concepts, Llc0.6 miCremation provider · Salisbury · (704) 633-0059
- Noble & Kelsey Funeral Home, Inc.0.9 miFuneral home · Salisbury · (704) 636-2711
- Summersett Funeral Home and Crematory1.3 miCremation provider · Salisbury · (704) 633-2111
- Carolina Cremation1.7 miCremation provider · Salisbury · (704) 636-1515
- Rowan Funeral Service Inc2.3 miFuneral home · Salisbury · (704) 637-8882
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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