Writers and poets buried in Ohio
Wikidata records 157 writers as buried in 70 of the cemeteries we list in Ohio. Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in Finneytown holds the most, with 31. Ohio has the 10th highest count of any state, out of 6,032 nationally.
People recorded as writers, novelists, poets, playwrights or screenwriters.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Writers and poets buried in Ohio
- James A. Garfield1831-1881President of the United States in 1881Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Antanas Smetona1874-1944First President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920All Souls Cemetery, Chardon, OH
- James Thurber1894-1961American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwrightGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Hart Crane1899-1932American writerPark Cemetery, Garrettsville, OH
- John Hay1838-1905American statesmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Harvey Williams Cushing1869-1939American neurosurgeonLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Leigh Brackett1915-1978American novelist and screenwriterNew Kinsman Cemetery, Kinsman Twp, OH
- Lincoln Ellsworth1880-1951American explorerMarkillie Cemetery, Hudson, OH
- Salmon P. Chase1808-1873American politician and lawyerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Edward Gorey1925-2000American writer, artist, and illustratorWoodland Cemetery, Coal Grove, OH
- Erma Bombeck1927-1996American humorist and writerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Paul Laurence Dunbar1872-1906American poet, novelist, dramatistWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Nikki Giovanni1943-2024American poet, writer and activistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Harvey Pekar1939-2010American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personalityLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Charles Grandison Finney1792-1875American religious leader, writer and educatorWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Edmond Hamilton1904-1977American science fiction writerNew Kinsman Cemetery, Kinsman Twp, OH
- Frances Wright1795-1852American activistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Mark Hanna1837-1904American businessman and politicianLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Paul Lynde1926-1982American comedian and actorAmity Cemetery, Apple Valley, OH
- Isaac Mayer Wise1819-1900American rabbi, editor and authorUnited Jewish Cemetery - Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH
- A. W. Tozer1897-1963American missionaryEllet Cemetery, Sawyerwood, OH
- Charles Chesnutt1858-1932American novelist, short story writer, essayist, activistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Wilbur Wright1867-1912American aviation pioneerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Paul Brown1908-1991American football coachRose Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Massillon, OH
- Ralph Hodgson1871-1962British writerPleasant Grove Cemetery, Malvern, OH
- Martin R. Delany1812-1885United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writerMassies Creek Cemetery, Cedarville, OH
- Hallie Quinn Brown1849-1949American writer and activistMassies Creek Cemetery, Cedarville, OH
- Mrs. Leslie Carter1857-1937American actressWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- George Sylvester Viereck1884-1962German-American writer, poet, propagandistGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Januarius MacGahan1844-1878American journalistNew Lexington Cemetery, New Lexington, OH
- George Randolph Chester1869-1924American short story writerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Washington Gladden1836-1918American pastorGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Manning Force1824-1899Union Army general United States Army Medal of Honor recipientSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Mabel Wagnalls1871-1946American author and pianistLithopolis Cemetery, Lithopolis, OH
- George Frederick Wright1838-1921American geologistWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Vaughan Kester1869-1911U.S. novelistMound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, OH
- Coates Kinney1826-1904American poet, journalist, and politicianMiami Cemetery, Waynesville, OH
- Michael Callen1955-1993American writer, musician and AIDS activistMillville Cemetery, Hamilton, OH
- Mortimer Dormer Leggett1821-1896Union Army generalLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Emily Huntington Miller1833-1913American writerGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- Burton Egbert Stevenson1872-1962Author, anthologist, and librarianGrandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, OH
- Henry Holcomb Bennett1863-1924(1863-1924) American writerGrandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, OH
- Lawrence Clement Windom1872-1957American film directorMount Calvary Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Addison Peale Russell1826-1912American author and politicianSugar Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, OH
- Josiah Strong1847-1916American Congregationalist clergymanMarkillie Cemetery, Hudson, OH
- Kent Curtis1890-1957American writerStanding Rock Cemetery, Kent, OH
- Carrie Williams Clifford1862-1934American writer and activistWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Murat Halstead1829-1908United States journalistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- William Haines Lytle1826-1863Union Army generalSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Catharine H. T. Avery1844-1911American educator, author, editorKnollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
- W. W. Fosdick1825-1862American poetSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Tony Sarg1882-1942German-American puppeteerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Lydia Hoyt Farmer1842-1903American author, women's rights activistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- C. A. L. Reed1856-1928American medical doctorSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Harriet L. Keeler1844-1921American teacher, botanist, and authorWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Mary Hayes Houghton1837-1921American journalistGreenwood Cemetery, Wellington, OH
- Charles Frederic Goss1852-1930American clergyman and authorSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- May Hill Arbuthnot1884-1969American educator and writerLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Edward Deering Mansfield1801-1880American lawyer and journalistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Friedrich Hassaurek1831-1885American journalistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- William Dudley Foulke1848-1935American lawyer, author and politicianSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- John James Piatt1835-1917American poetSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Lillian Josephine Chester1887-1961American writer and filmmakerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- William Turner Coggeshall1824-1867American publisher,librarian and ambassadorGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Irvine Garland Penn1867-1930American journalist and educator from VirginiaAmerican Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
- James Fairchild1817-1902American academicWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Lillian Resler Harford1851-1939American church organizer, editor, authorOtterbein Cemetery, Westerville, OH
- Minerva Dayton Bateham1856-1885US poet and hymn writerEvergreen Cemetery, Painesville, OH
- John Robert Moore1890-1973American biographer and bibliographerAshland Cemetery, Ashland, OH
- Helen Steiner Rice1900-1981American poetElmwood Cemetery, Lorain, OH
- Marion E. Warner1839-1918American poet and short story writerNew Darby Cemetery, Plain City, OH
- Edward Rowland Sill1841-1887American poet and educatorOakwood Cemetery, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
- Matilda Gilruth Carpenter1831-1923American temperance activist, writerWashington Cemetery, Washington Court House, OH
- Charles Franklin Thwing1853-1937American writerLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Martha Parmelee Rose1834-1923American journalist, writer, social reformer, social leaderLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Elizabeth Lownes Rust1835-1899American philanthropist, humanitarian, missionarySpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Almeda C. Adams1865-1949US blind musician, teacher, and authorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Anna Kay Scott1838-1923American medical missionary and writerMaple Grove Cemetery, Granville, OH
- Minnie Willis Baines1845-1923American authorFerncliff Cemetery, Springfield, OH
- Alice E. Heckler Peters1845-1921American social reformer, educator, writerGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow1867-1935American authorGrandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, OH
- David Philipson1862-1949American rabbiUnited Jewish Cemetery - Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH
- Priscilla Jane Thompson1871-19421871-1942, poet and lecturerAmerican Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
- Henry Cowles1803-1881American theological scholar 1803-1881Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Edward Dickinson1853-1946American music teacherWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Sara Rowsey Foley1840-1925American educator, journalist, biographer, clubwomanCalvary Cemetery, Toledo, OH
- Howard Hyde Russell1855-1946American activistOtterbein Cemetery, Westerville, OH
- Jessie Brown Pounds1861-1921American poetFairview Cemetery, Hiram, OH
- William Baxter1820-1880Second president of Arkansas CollegeLisbon Cemetery, Leetonia, OH
- Eleanor Gertrude Brown1888-1964American scholar and educatorDayton Memorial Park Cemetery, Shiloh, OH
- Mary E. Lee1851-1932African-American teacher and poetMassies Creek Cemetery, Wilberforce, OH
- Thomas Stewart Denison1848-1911American writer and educatorNorthwood Cemetery, Cambridge, OH
- Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood1817-1864American translatorRainbow Cemetery, Devola, OH
- Joseph M. Bachelor1887-1947American writer and academicSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Harvey Rice1800-1891American politicianLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Jonathan Falconbridge Kelly1817-185419th century American journalist and humoristSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Arthur Nash1870-1927American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Jenny Terrill Ruprecht1840-1916American authorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Richard S. Rust1815-1906American Methodist preacher, abolitionist, educator, writer, and lecturerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Belle Harpster Hartness1867-1957American stenographer, writer, lecturer, lady of lettersLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Marion Rombauer Becker1903-19761903-1976 , cookbook writer, arts administrator, and conservationistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Michael Myers Shoemaker1853-1924American author and traveler; MillionaireSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Ada M. Skinner1871-1960Anglo-American children's writer, teacher and magazine editorGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Xavier Donald MacLeod1821-1865Born in New York, 1821. Episcopal minister in 1845. Prolific author and newspaper editor in New York City and St. Louis. professor at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati 1858; entered the priesthood, 1861 and died in 1865.Saint Joseph New Cemetery, Covedale, OH
- Anna Belle Rhodes Penn1865-1930Writer, poet, educatorAmerican Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
- Emma Alice Browne1835-1890American poetGreenville Union Cemetery, Greenville, OH
- Alice Archer James1870-1955American painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1870-1955Oakdale Cemetery, Urbana, OH
- Charles Otis Locke1895-1977American writerGreenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, OH
- Newell Leroy Sims1878-1965Indiana writerWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- James Sheward1815-1886American politician and writerWoodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, OH
- Mina Pearl Ashton1881-1972American writerRiverside Cemetery, Defiance, OH
- Melva Beatrice Wilson1866-1921American sculptorMorrow Cemetery, Morrow, OH
- Hamilton Busbey1840-1924American horse show judge and writerSouth Vienna Cemetery, Lisbon, OH
- William Alexander Taylor1837-1911American author and editorGreenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, OH
- Theodore Sommers Henderson1868-1929American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Edith Anisfield Wolf1889-1963American philanthropist and poetKnollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
- Georgia T. Robertson1852-1916American educator and authorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- James K. Tillotson1845-1907American playwrightWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Alexander H. McGuffey1816-1896Author of fifth and sixth McGuffey ReadersSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Carl Miller Oldrin1881-1962(1881-1962) American writerNorthfield - Macedonia Cemetery, Northfield, OH
- John Herbert Aloysius Bone1830-1906WriterWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Alice Eliza Ball1867-1948American ornithologist and authorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Edna Brush Perkins1880-1930American writer, artist, and suffragistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Anna Maria Pratt1844-1928American educatorWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Alice J. Green Barker1852-1914American poetLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Florence Marie Rudge1882-1912WriterCalvary Cemetery, Youngstown, OH
- Samuel W. Allen1917-2015American writer, literary scholar, and lawyerGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Albert Adams Graham1848-1896American authorGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Charles Carey Waddell1868-1930American authorGrandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, OH
- Cecil Fanning1880-1931American baritone; author and librettistMount Calvary Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- James Bradley Finley1781-1856American clergymanMound Hill Cemetery, Eaton, OH
- Luman Harris Tenney1841-1880American military officer and diaristWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Rebecca Altman1880-1957WriterRiverview Cemetery, Oakwood, OH
- Catherine Beach Ely1871-1936American writerWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- Glora May Wysner1898-1991American Methodist minister and missionaryMound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, OH
- Effie Louise Koogle1869-1947American songwriter and playwrightLebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, OH
- Trumbull Gillette Duvall1861-1951American philosophy professorOak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, OH
- Jennings B. Ashcraft1897-1974American writerFrazeysburg Cemetery, Frazeysburg, OH
- Alexander Clark1834-1879American clergyman and writerSpring Hill Cemetery, Wellsville, OH
- Ellie Damm1924-2013American preservationistCalvary Cemetery, Sandusky, OH
- Lillian Mortimer1873-1946American playwrightRidgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, OH
- Sara V. Prueser1869-1936American teacher, writer, poetNoble and Tiffin Cemetery, Defiance, OH
- Daniel Webster Williams1862-1932Horeb Cemetery, Jackson, OH
- James Warner Ward1816-18971816-1897 , librarian and authorSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Helen Wise Molony1859-1934American suffragist, writer, poetSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Benjamin St. James Fry1824-1892American clergyman and writerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Natalie Crouter1898-1985(born 1898)Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Loretta L. Wood Merwin1818-1890American travel writerWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Samuel Jackson Fisher1847-1928African-American poet and Presbyterian clergymanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Robert L. Bolton1939-2015American novelist & police officerNorthfield - Macedonia Cemetery, Northfield, OH
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 157. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1850s3
- 1860s5
- 1870s4
- 1880s10
- 1890s10
- 1900s11
- 1910s16
- 1920s21
- 1930s23
- 1940s14
- 1950s8
- 1960s12
- 1970s7
- 1980s3
- 1990s4
- 2000s1
- 2010s4
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 157 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH31
- Lake View Cemetery · East Cleveland, OH21
- Westwood Cemetery · Oberlin, OH9
- Green Lawn Cemetery · Columbus, OH8
- Woodland Cemetery · Hough, OH5
- Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum · Dayton, OH4
- Grandview Cemetery · Chillicothe, OH4
- American Cemetery · Cincinnati, OH3
- United Jewish Cemetery - Walnut Hills · Cincinnati, OH2
- New Kinsman Cemetery · Kinsman Twp, OH2
- Mount Calvary Cemetery · Columbus, OH2
- Knollwood Cemetery · Mayfield Heights, OH2
- Mound View Cemetery · Mount Vernon, OH2
- Markillie Cemetery · Hudson, OH2
- Massies Creek Cemetery · Cedarville, OH2
- Northfield - Macedonia Cemetery · Northfield, OH2
- Otterbein Cemetery · Westerville, OH2
- Bet Olam Cemetery · Beachwood, OH2
- Glendale Cemetery · Akron, OH1
- All Souls Cemetery · Chardon, OH1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Zanesville, OH1
- Fairview Cemetery · Hiram, OH1
- Mound Hill Cemetery · Eaton, OH1
- Washington Cemetery · Washington Court House, OH1
- Northwood Cemetery · Cambridge, OH1
Top 25 of 70 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Other notable burials in Ohio
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.