About Westlawn Cemetery
Westlawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Canton, Stark County, Ohio. It lies about 1.0 mi southeast of Canton. The grounds sit at about 1,079 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 22 notable people buried here, including William R. Day, Atlee Pomerene and William F. Raynolds. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1047825. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Johns Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Williams Funeral Home in Canton, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 154 cemeteries we list in Stark County, and 78 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 154 listings in Stark County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Canton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Westlawn Cemetery
Among them: 6 US representatives, 2 business leaders, 2 inventors and engineers, 1 architect, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 baseball player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 Mexican-American War veteran.
- William R. Day1849-1923US Supreme Court justice from 1903 to 1922
- Atlee Pomerene1863-1937American politician
- William F. Raynolds1820-1894U.S. Army surveyor and topographer
- Isaac H. Taylor1840-1936American politician
- Frank T. Bow1901-1972American politician
- James Murray Spangler1848-1915American inventor
- William R. Thom1885-1960American politician
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter1813-1866American politician
- Guy Tilden1858-1929American architect
- Henderson Haverfield Carson1893-1971American politician
- Samuel Lahm1812-1876Politician
- Bernetta Adams Miller1884-1972American aviator
Show all 22 notable burials
- George H. Clark1872-1943American lawyer and judge
- William A. Lynch1844-1907American politician in Ohio
- William Louis Day1876-1936United States federal judge
- George Textor1886-1954American baseball player
- John Danner1823-1918Inventor
- William McKinley, Sr.1807-1892American businessman
- William Henry Hooverborn 1849American vacuum cleaner entrepreneur (1849, fl. 1900s)
- Abner Osborn McKinley1847-1904
- Alfred Baehrens1875-1916American singing teacher
- Theano Wattles Case1853-1949American teacher, botanist and painter
People whose Wikidata entry gives Westlawn 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 Westlawn 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
- Saint Johns CemeteryCanton, OHChristian cemetery1.0 mi
- McKinley Park Cemetery (historical)Canton, OHCemetery1.1 mi
- Saint Peters CemeteryCanton, OHChristian cemetery1.2 mi
- Rowland CemeteryCanton, OHCemetery2.4 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryCanton, OHJewish cemetery2.7 mi
- Forest Hill CemeteryNorth Canton, OHCemetery2.9 mi
- North Lawn CemeteryNorth Canton, OHCemetery3.1 mi
- Valley Chapel CemeteryCanton, OHChurch cemetery3.9 mi
- Hillcrest CemeteryCanton, OHCemetery3.9 mi
- Calvary CemeteryGenoa, OHCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Westlawn Cemetery
- Williams Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 455-0387
- Lamiell Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 456-7375
- Schneeberger-Oser Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 456-8237
- Minnifield Funeral Home LLC1.0 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 546-0234
- Formet-Clevenger & Gordon Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 456-4766
- Wackerly Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Canton · (330) 455-5235
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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