About Dunmore Cemetery
Dunmore Cemetery is a cemetery near Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 945 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 18 notable people buried here, including Marie Wainwright, Thomas Henry Dale and George W. Scranton. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1198673. The nearest other listed cemetery is Temple Hesed Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Carlucci Golden DeSantis Funeral Home in Dunmore, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 188 cemeteries we list in Lackawanna County, and 155 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Dunmore. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Dunmore Cemetery
Among them: 2 actors, 2 US representatives, 1 business leader.
- Marie Wainwright1853-1923American actress
- Thomas Henry Dale1846-1912American politician from Pennsylvania
- George W. Scranton1811-1861American politician
- Bertha Galland1876-1932American stage actor
- Robert Wodrow Archbald1848-1926United States federal judge
- Irving Lowens1916-1983American musicologist, music critic and librarian
- Isaiah Fawkes Everhart1840-1911American physician and naturalist
- Marion Margery Scranton1884-1960American political figure
- Frederick Lyman Hitchcock1837-1924Attorney and veteran Colonel of the U.S. Civil War
- Henry Martyn Boies1837-1903American power company executive
- Joseph H. Scranton1813-1872American industrialist
- Worthington Scranton1876-1955American lawyer and industrialist
Show all 18 notable burials
- Cornelia Walker Scranton1864-1919
- Edmund Beeson Jermyn1890-1932
- Edmund Beeson Jermyn1867-1934Heir
- James Alexander Linen1840-1918
- Joseph Fellows1782-1873Millionaire land agent
- Katherine Maria Smith Scranton1851-1935
People whose Wikidata entry gives Dunmore 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 Dunmore 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
- Temple Hesed CemeteryDunmore, PAJewish cemetery0.2 mi
- Temple Israel CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.2 mi
- Forest Hill CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.4 mi
- Marywood College CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Michael's CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.4 mi
- Mount Carmel CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Mary of Mount Carmel CemeteryDunmore, PACemetery0.7 mi
- Saint John The Baptist CemeteryThroop, PACatholic cemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Mary CemeteryThroop, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Heermans Family Burying GroundDunmore, PACemetery1.3 mi
Funeral homes near Dunmore Cemetery
- Carlucci Golden DeSantis Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral home · Dunmore · (570) 343-6013
- Albert P O'Donnell Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Dunmore · (570) 344-1819
- Morell-La Belle Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Dunmore · (570) 344-4714
- Snowdon Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Scranton · (570) 343-0712
- McGoff-Hughes Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Scranton · (570) 343-3660
- John F Glinsky Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Throop · (570) 489-4621
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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