About Westwood Cemetery
Westwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. It lies about 1.0 mi northeast of Oberlin. The grounds sit at about 817 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 52 notable people buried here, including Charles Martin Hall, Charles Grandison Finney and James Monroe. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1047835. The nearest other listed cemetery is East Cemetery, about 3.4 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Cowling Funeral Home Inc. in Oberlin, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 63 cemeteries we list in Lorain County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Oberlin. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Westwood Cemetery
Among them: 10 scientists, 9 writers, 3 musicians, 2 football players, 1 actor, 1 baseball player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Charles Martin Hall1863-1914American chemist
- Charles Grandison Finney1792-1875American religious leader, writer and educator
- James Monroe1821-1898American congressman
- George Frederick Wright1838-1921American geologist
- Edmund Burke Fairfield1821-1904American politician
- Harriet L. Keeler1844-1921American teacher, botanist, and author
- C. K. Fauver1872-1942American Major League Baseball pitcher, college football player and coach
- Frank Fanning Jewett1844-1926American chemist
- Frank Hugh Foster1851-1935American theologian
- Henry Churchill King1858-1934American academic
- James Fairchild1817-1902American academic
- A. G. Leonard1865-1932State Geologist of North Dakota
Show all 52 notable burials
- Adelia Field Johnston1837-1910American educator
- Edward Dickinson1853-1946American music teacher
- Edward I. Bosworth1861-1927American theologian
- Fred Eugene Leonard1866-1922American historian
- Fred M. Hatch1877-1932American football coach, athletics administrator, educator
- Henry Cowles1803-1881American theological scholar 1803-1881
- Henry E. Peck1821-1867American abolitionist and diplomat
- Russell Parsons Jameson1878-1954Professor at Oberlin College
- Delavan Levant Leonard1834-1917
- Edgar Fauver1875-1946American football player and coach
- Emil Danenberg1917-1982Pianist and college president
- Frederick Orville Grover1868-1964American botanist
- John Keep1781-1870American abolitionist
- Kemper Fullerton1865-1941U.S. educator and academic
- Lysle K. Butler1903-1973American football and basketball coach, athletics administrator
- Newell Leroy Sims1878-1965Indiana writer
- William Andrew Moffett1933-1995American librarian
- Albert Allen Wright1846-1905American botanist
- Albert Temple Swing1849-1925American pastor
- Andrew Barclay Meldrum1857-1928
- Arthur L. Williams1902-1973American music educator and researcher
- Carl E. Howe1898-1966American physicist
- Catherine Beach Ely1871-1936American writer
- Celestia Wattles1849-1933Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Charles Henry Churchill1824-1904
- Chester Henry Yeaton1886-1970Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1915
- Edward Franklin Bosworth1894-1957
- Fenelon Bird Rice1841-1901American music educator
- George Durand Wilder1869-1946American missionary
- Henry Harrison Barnard1840-1912American Civil War soldier
- Judson Smith1837-19061837-1906 , missionary secretary and educator
- Leigh Alexander1883-1948American classicist
- Louis E. Lord1875-1957American classical philologist
- Luman Harris Tenney1841-1880American military officer and diarist
- Lyman B. Hall1852-1918American educator
- Marie Mathilda Johnson1898-1978Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1928
- Maro Lummis Bartlett1847-1919American composer
- Sela Goodrich Wright1816-1906Educator and missionary
- Whitelaw Morrison1886-1958American anatomist and basketball coach
- William Swetland1913-2003American actor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Westwood 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 Westwood 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
- East CemeteryOberlin, OHCemetery3.4 mi
- Camden CemeteryCamden, OHCemetery3.6 mi
- Henrietta CemeteryCamden, OHCemetery3.6 mi
- South Pittsfield CemeteryOberlin, OHCemetery4.0 mi
- Rockwood CemeteryLagrange, OHCemetery4.2 mi
- Pioneer CemeterySouth Amherst, OHCemetery4.8 mi
- Evergreen CemeterySouth Amherst, OHCemetery4.9 mi
- Sanders Hill CemeterySouth Amherst, OHCemetery5.0 mi
- Henrietta Methodist CemeterySouth Amherst, OHMethodist cemetery6.1 mi
- Agudath Achim CemeteryAmherst, OHCemetery6.2 mi
Funeral homes near Westwood Cemetery
- Cowling Funeral Home Inc.0.8 miFuneral home · Oberlin · (440) 775-1451
- Garland-Misencik Funeral Home & Crematory Service7.9 miCremation provider · Amherst · (440) 988-4124
- Hempel Funeral Home8.0 miFuneral home · Amherst · (440) 988-4451
- Carter Funeral Home8.5 miFuneral home · Elyria · (440) 322-7788
- Dicken Funeral Home Inc8.5 miFuneral home · Elyria · (440) 322-3224
- Norton-Eastman Funeral Home8.6 miFuneral home · Wellington · (440) 647-3132
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