About Wooster Cemetery
Wooster Cemetery is a cemetery near Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. It lies about 1.4 mi north of Wooster. The grounds sit at about 912 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 32 notable people buried here, including Arthur Holly Compton, Addison S. McClure and Dean Chance. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048135. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Marys Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home in Wooster, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 127 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 59 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 127 listings in Wayne County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Wooster. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Wooster Cemetery
Among them: 10 US representatives, 4 football players, 4 baseball players, 2 Civil War veterans, 2 scientists, 2 War of 1812 veterans, 1 business leader, 1 musician.
- Arthur Holly Compton1892-1962American physicist
- Addison S. McClure1839-1903U.S. Representative
- Dean Chance1941-2015American baseball player
- Guy Hecker1856-1938American pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Martin L. Smyser1851-1908American politician
- Benjamin Jones1787-1861American politician
- Cyrus Spink1793-1859American politician
- George Bliss1813-1868American politician in Ohio
- John McSweeney1890-1969Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Martin Welker1819-1902Union Army soldier
- Kaiser Wilhelm1874-1936American baseball player
- John Sloane1779-1856American politician
Show all 32 notable burials
- Lewis P. Ohliger1843-1923American politician
- Reasin Beall1769-1843American politician
- Aquila Wiley1835-1910Union Army general
- Edward Avery1790-1866Ohio jurist and politician
- Merle Tillotson Alcock1884-1975American opera singer
- Carl V. Weygandt1888-1964Jurist, footballer
- Charles F. Wishart1870-1960American Presbyterian minister
- Willie Flattery1904-1957American football player
- Arthur W. Collins1890-1970American football player
- August Imgard1828-1904German-American proponent of the Christmas tree
- Charles Follis1879-1910First black professional American football player
- Henry Totten1824-1899American businessman and politician
- Katharine Elizabeth Seelye1891-1938American music teacher at Tsinghua College
- Lawrence C. Boles1883-1945American football player and coach
- Marion Blankenhorn1885-1957American football coach and physician
- William James Hail1877-1963American Sinologist and Presbyterian minister
- Albert Charles Muhse1867-1953German economic writer
- Annie B. Irish1857-1886First female professor at the College of Wooster
- G. D. Gable1863-1911Ph.D. Lafayette College 1891
- John Wilson Frick1822-1888
People whose Wikidata entry gives Wooster 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 Wooster 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 Marys CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery0.4 mi
- Wayne County Home CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery2.5 mi
- Highland Park CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery2.9 mi
- Branch CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery3.2 mi
- Pioneer CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery3.2 mi
- East Union CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery3.4 mi
- Weaver CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery3.6 mi
- Hermans CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery3.8 mi
- Trinity English Lutheran CemeteryWooster, OHLutheran cemetery3.9 mi
- Stauffer CemeteryWooster, OHCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Wooster Cemetery
- McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Wooster · (330) 262-7771
- Custer-Glenn Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc.3.1 miFuneral home · Wooster · (330) 264-7776
- Roberts Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · Wooster · (330) 345-5665
- Murray Funeral Home, Inc.8.3 miFuneral home · Fredericksburg · (330) 695-3415
- Schlabach Funeral Home Ltd8.3 miFuneral home · Shreve · (330) 567-2291
- Gresser Funeral Home9.4 miFuneral home · Orrville · (330) 682-7881
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
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