About Mount Greenwood Cemetery
Mount Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Trucksville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 1,014 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 4 notable people buried here, including Clarence Dennis Coughlin, George H. Primrose and Carl E. DeVries. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1181691. The nearest other listed cemetery is Evergreen Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Snowdon Funeral Homes in Shavertown, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 280 cemeteries we list in Luzerne County, and 160 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Trucksville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Greenwood Cemetery
Among them: 1 business leader, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 US representative, 1 World War I veteran.
- Clarence Dennis Coughlin1883-1946American politician
- George H. Primrose1852-1919American minstrel performer
- Carl E. DeVries1921-2010American Egyptologist, Baptist minister, football coach
- Wensel Morava1853-1932Czech American engineer and industrialist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Greenwood 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
41.31134, -75.93690
What Mount Greenwood 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
- Evergreen CemeteryShavertown, PACemetery0.7 mi
- Cedar Crest CemeteryTrucksville, PAMethodist cemetery0.7 mi
- Saint Nicholas CemeteryShavertown, PACemetery0.8 mi
- Shaver CemeteryShavertown, PACemetery1.1 mi
- Sacred Heart CemeteryDallas, PACemetery1.7 mi
- Huntsville CemeteryBack Mountain, PACemetery1.7 mi
- Rice CemeteryDallas, PACemetery1.9 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryDallas, PACemetery2.0 mi
- Saint Anthony's / Saint John's CemeteryLuzerne, PAChristian cemetery2.2 mi
- Saint Mary's Byzantine Catholic CemeteryLuzerne, PACatholic cemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Greenwood Cemetery
- Snowdon Funeral Homes0.6 miFuneral home · Shavertown · (570) 675-3333
- Disque Richard H Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Dallas · (570) 675-0806
- Richard H. Disque Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Dallas · (570) 675-3255
- Betz-Jastremski Funeral Home Inc2.9 miFuneral home · Luzerne · (570) 287-0293
- Andrew Strish Funeral Home3.1 miFuneral home · Larksville · (570) 287-5438
- Lehman-Gregory Funeral Home Inc3.1 miFuneral home · Swoyersville · (570) 288-5176
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