Overview
About Green Lawn Cemetery
Green Lawn Cemetery is a church cemetery in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Wikidata records 176 notable people buried here, including James Thurber, Thomas Midgley and Eddie Rickenbacker. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Rutherford-Shroyer Funeral Homes & Crematories in Columbus, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 207 cemeteries we list in Franklin County, and 157 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Franklin County dates to 1813. 3 of the 207 listings in Franklin County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable burials
Notable people buried at Green Lawn Cemetery
Among them: 14 US representatives, 11 scientists, 10 baseball players, 9 business leaders, 8 Civil War veterans, 8 journalists, 8 writers, 7 World War I veterans.
- James Thurber1894-1961American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
- Thomas Midgley1889-1944American chemist and engineer
- Eddie Rickenbacker1890-1973United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- John W. Bricker1893-1986American politician
- Allen G. Thurman1813-1895American politician and lawyer
- Marion Tinsley1927-1995American checkers player
- Samuel P. Bush1863-1948American businessman
- Thomas Blakiston1832-1891British zoologist
- Grant Mitchell1874-1957American actor
- Frank Castleman1877-1946American hurdler and coach
- James H. Snook1879-1930American sportsperson, veterenarian, and executed murderer
- Leo Lesquereux1806-1889Swiss-American botanist
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- William Dennison Jr.1815-1882American politician
- William Starling Sullivant1803-1873US bryologist
- George Sylvester Viereck1884-1962German-American writer, poet, propagandist
- James Edwin Campbell1843-1924American politician
- Jim Rhodes1909-2001American politician
- Wayne Wheeler1869-1927American prohibitionist
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.1888-1965American historian
- George K. Nash1842-1904Union United States Army soldier
- James W. Forsyth1835-1906Union Army general
- Washington Gladden1836-1918American pastor
- Samuel Medary1801-1864Territorial Governor of Minnesota, 1857-1858
- Alice Schille1869-1955American watercolorist and painter
- David Goss1952-2017American mathematician
- David K. Watson1849-1918American politician
- George L. Converse1827-1897American politician
- John Martin Vorys1896-1968United States Representative from Ohio's 12th District from 1939 to 1959
- Cromwell Dixon1892-1911American aviator
- De Witt C. Badger1858-1926American politician
- Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger1886-1977American suffragist
- John Baldwin Neil1842-1902American military officer and politician
- John G. Mitchell1838-1894Union Army general
- Joseph H. Outhwaite1841-1907American politician
- Paul Herman Buck1899-1978American historian
- Samuel Galloway1811-1872American politician
- Billy Southworth1893-1969American baseball player, coach, manager
- Daniel J. Ryan1855-1923American politician
- Daniel S. Earhart1907-1976American politician
- Edward L. Taylor, Jr.1869-1938American politician
- Henry Howe1816-1893American historian
- John J. Lentz1856-1931American politician
- Merie Earle1889-1984American actress
- Samuel Luccock Black1859-1929Mayor of columbus ohio
- Wally Gerber1891-1951American baseball player
- Alfred Kelley1789-18591789-1859 , promoter of canal, railroad, banking, and taxation systems
- Charles C. Walcutt1838-1898Union Army General
- Clinton Greaves1855-1906United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Edward C. Turner1872-1950Graduate of Moritz College of Law
- Edward S. Matthias1873-1953Ohio Jurist
- Frank Packard1866-1923American architect
- Harry Fritz1890-1974American baseball player
- Heman A. Moore1809-1844American politician
- Isaac B. Cameron1851-1930American politician
- James John Thomas1868-1947Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- James L. Conger1805-1876American politician
- James M. Comly1832-1887Union Army general
- Joseph Ridgway1783-1861American politician
- Lincoln Goodale1782-1868American doctor
- Roger Ellwood Cloud1909-1988American politician
- Samuel Brubaker Hartman1830-19181830-1918 , physician and proprietary medicine manufacturer
- Walter D. Guilbert1844-1911American politician in Ohio
- William Taylor Cope1836-1902American politician
- William Turner Coggeshall1824-1867American publisher,librarian and ambassador
- Al G. Field1848-1921Minstrel show operator
- Alice E. Heckler Peters1845-1921American social reformer, educator, writer
- Allen T. Wikoff1825-1902American politician
- Annie Maude Norton1863-1925
- Charles Anson Bond1873-1943Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Emil Kiesewetter1845-1924American politician
- Freeman T. Eagleson1876-1967Ohio Legislator
- Gustavus Swan1787-1860Columbus, Ohio lawyer and banker
- John C. Brown1844-1900American politician, Ohio
- John F. Oglevee1840-1903American politician in Ohio
- John H. Arnold1862-1944American politician
- Joseph H. Potter1822-1892United States Army general during American Civil War
- Joseph Rockwell Swan1802-1884Ohio Jurist
- Lucas Sullivant1765-1823American surveyor
- Nathan Kelley1808-1871American architect
- Oliver Patterson Watts1865-1953American chemical engineer
- Philip H. Bruck1845-1920Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Ralston Westlake1907-1978American politician
- Samuel B. Campbell1846-1917American politician
- Simon Lazarus1807-1877American businessman
- Thomas J. Moyer1939-2010American judge
- William Blackstone Hubbard1795-1866American politician
- William Dennison Clark1885-1932American football player
- William L. McMillen1829-1902Union Army general, physician, politician
- William Trevitt1809-1881Ohio politician, diplomat, and doctor
- Ada M. Skinner1871-1960Anglo-American children's writer, teacher and magazine editor
- Alexander Patton1791-1857Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Alexander W. Livingston1821-1898Seed merchant and tomato breeder from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA
- Allen W. Thurman1847-1922American politician and eugenicist
- Augustus Stoner Decker1813-1872American politician
- Curtis C. Williams1861-1942American politician and judge
- Dan Tipton1844-1898Miner, gambler, associate of Wyatt Earp
- Edmund F. Arras1875-1951American lawyer and entrepreneur
- Fred Lazarus, Jr.1884-1973American businessman
- Frederick Phisterer1836-1909Medal of Honor recipient
- Frederick William Stellhorn1841-1919German Lutheran theologian
- George Silas Peters1846-1928American politician
- Gus Schmelz1850-1925American baseball player, coach, manager
- Jim Gifford1845-1901Major League Baseball manager
- Jimmy Williams1847-1918Major League Baseball manager
- John Brooks1785-1869Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- John H. Klippart1823-1878American agriculturalist
- John M. Matthias1903-1973American politician
- John Nelson Hinkle1854-190534th mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Joseph T. Tracy1865-1952American politician in Ohio
- Joseph Whitehill1786-1861An Ohio farmer who entered politics, was elected to a series of local offices in Warren County, Ohio, before his election as Ohio State Treasurer
- Lorenzo English1819-1888Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Lucile Atcherson Curtis1894-1986American diplomat, suffragist
- Madison Wright Wade1861-1943American photographer
- Otto Dresel1824-1881German journalist, politician and lawyer
- Peter Sells1845-1904American circus proprietor
- Robert Drury1878-1933American baseball player and manager
- Robert H. Jeffrey1873-1961Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- Robert T. Oestreicher1894-1955American mayor
- William Bell1828-1902American politician from Ohio
- William Maclay Awl1799-1876American politician
- William Oxley Thompson1855-1933American academic administrator
- William T. Martin1788-1866American politician, Ohio
- William Williams Mather1804-1859American geologist
- Albert Adams Graham1848-1896American author
- Annie W. Clark1843-1907American temperance leader
- Billy Southworth1917-1945American baseball player
- Charles Godfrey Freudenberg1833-1885United States military officer
- Chester W. Goble1892-1975American politician and officer
- E. O. Randall1850-1919
- Ephraim Sells1834-1898American circus proprietor
- Frank W. Arnold1851-1917American trade union functionary
- George Bellows Sr.1829-1913American architect, builder, and politician
- George Ziegler1832-1912Union Army general and United States Army general
- Harold Montfort Bush1872-1945American military officer
- Harry James Westerman1876-1945American illustrator
- Harvey Derne1874-1921American football coach
- Henry Beecher Dierdorff1851-1935American inventor
- Lorenzo N. Baker1861-1906American photographer
- Mary Auten Trautman1898-1986American entomologist, ichthyologist, ornithologist, university professor and museum curator
- Merritt Finley Miller1875-1965
- Pelatiah Webster Huntington1836-1918American banker
- Samuel Orton1879-1948American physician
- Samuel W. Allen1917-2015American writer, literary scholar, and lawyer
- Starling Loving1828-1911American physician
- Thomas Woodrow1793-18771793-1877
- William Neil Dennison1841-1904United States Army officer
- Allen Ephraim Sells1862-1904American circus executive
- Amelia Weston1785-1859
- Anne Eliza Neil1821-1911First lady of Ohio; Millionaire heiress
- Daniel T. McCabe1849-1931American railway executive
- Eleanor L. Skinner1868-1951Vice principal at North High School
- Eliza Griscom Sullivant1817-1850American botanist, bryologist and botanical collector
- Foster Copeland1858-1935American banker
- Francis C. Sessions1820-1892American merchant and banker
- Fred A. Tate1920-1980American chemist
- George L. Converse1857-1946Converse, George L; class of 1880
- Guild Anderson Copeland1862-1925American newspaper editor
- Harold Bernard Alberty1890-19711890-1971 , professor of curriculum design and development
- Harry J Hirsch1867-1922Colonel, Infantry, US Army
- J. H. J. Upham1871-1960American physician
- James Hoge1784-1863Presbyterian minister
- Jane Swan1823-1900
- Joseph Sullivant1809-1882
- Kenneth Lyon Sater1899-1977Attorney and Judge b1899-d1977 - Franklin County, Ohio - Common Pleas Judge 1958-1965
- Lucy Neil1847-1897
- Robert Elkin Neil1819-1899Millionaire heir of Ohio
- Robert J. Massie1949-2015American businessperson
- Rutherford Hayes Platt1853-1928American lawyer and law professor
- Shepherd Edmonds1876-1957Vaudeville entertainer/ Songwriter
- Sherwood L. Fawcett1919-2015American scientist
- Shirley Wing1885-1925American diplomat
- Simon Lazarus1882-1947American merchant
- William Augustus Platt1809-1882
- William N. Tallant1854-1905United States lepidopterist and scientific collector
- William Neil1788-1870Wealthy businessman of Ohio
- William Shepard1825-1914American doctor and member of the Ohio House of Representatives
People whose Wikidata entry gives Green Lawn 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.
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39.93852, -83.02860
Services & features
What Green Lawn 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.
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Nearby cemeteries
Funeral providers
Funeral homes near Green Lawn Cemetery
- Rutherford-Shroyer Funeral Homes & Crematories1.4 miCremation provider · Columbus · (614) 274-1161
- Graumlich Funeral Home & Cremation Services1.7 miFuneral home · Columbus · (614) 444-7854
- Maeder-Quint Tiberi Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Columbus · (614) 444-1185
- O. R. Woodyard Co. Funeral & Cremation Services1.8 miCremation provider · Columbus · (614) 221-7746
- OR Woodyard Funeral Services1.8 miFuneral home · Columbus
- Eternal Cremations of Columbus2.0 miFuneral home · Columbus · (614) 502-5334
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Green Lawn Cemetery located?
Green Lawn Cemetery is at 1000 Greenlawn Avenue, Columbus, OH 43223 in Franklin County. GPS coordinates: 39.93852, -83.02860.
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