Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Salem Cemetery is a cemetery near Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It lies about 0.6 mi northwest of Winston-Salem. The grounds sit at about 876 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 22 notable people buried here, including Gordon Gray, R. J. Reynolds and Robert Broadnax Glenn. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 994158. The nearest other listed cemetery is Evergreen Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Salem Funeral & Cremation Service in Winston-Salem, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 38 cemeteries we list in Forsyth County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Winston-Salem. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 5 business leaders, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 US representatives, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 journalist, 1 World War I veteran, 1 World War II veteran.

• Gordon Gray1909-1982
  Official in the government of the United States
• R. J. Reynolds1850-1918
  American businessman, founder R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
• Robert Broadnax Glenn1854-1920
  American politician
• Augustine Henry Shepperd1792-1864
  American politician
• William R. Boggs1829-1911
  Confederate Army general
• Richard Thurmond Chatham1896-1957
  American politician
• Burton C. Gray1941-1989
  Economist, businessman, and conservative political theorist
• Katharine Smith Reynolds1880-1924
• R. J. Reynolds, Jr.1906-1964
  American businessman
• Alfred Horatio Belo1839-1901
  American newspaper publisher and Confederate Army soldier
• Florence Wells Slater1864-1941
  American entomologist
• Francis Henry Fries1855-1931
  American industrialist

People whose Wikidata entry gives Salem 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.

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.

• Evergreen Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  1.6 mi
• Silver Hill Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  2.0 mi
• Bellevue Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  2.1 mi
• Odd Fellows Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  2.5 mi
• Parklawn Memorial Park

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Memorial park

  2.9 mi
• Woodland Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  3.0 mi
• Oaklawn Memorial Gardens

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Memorial park

  3.9 mi
• Advente Moravian God's Acre Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Cemetery

  4.0 mi
• Mount Tabor United Methodist Cementary

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Methodist cemetery

  5.0 mi
• Old Town Cemetery

  Winston-Salem, NC
  Municipal cemetery

  5.4 mi

• Salem Funeral & Cremation Service

  Cremation provider · Winston-Salem · (336) 722-6122
  0.3 mi
• Twin City Cremations

  Funeral home · Winston-Salem · (336) 842-3028
  0.6 mi
• Clark S Brown & Sons Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Winston-Salem · (336) 722-8117
  0.8 mi
• Russell Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Winston-Salem · (336) 722-3459
  1.0 mi
• Hooper Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Winston-Salem · (336) 724-1561
  1.6 mi
• Gilmore's Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Winston-Salem · (336) 723-5508
  1.6 mi

Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.