About Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a cemetery near Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 1.4 mi east of Wilkinsburg. The grounds sit at about 1,099 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 132 notable people buried here, including Henry J. Heinz, Erroll Garner and Henry Clay Frick. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1177333. The nearest other listed cemetery is Smithfield East End Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is White Memorial Chapel in Pittsburgh, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 342 cemeteries we list in Allegheny County, and 217 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Allegheny County dates to 1824. 5 of the 342 listings in Allegheny County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Wilkinsburg. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Homewood Cemetery
Among them: 15 baseball players, 15 business leaders, 9 inventors and engineers, 7 football players, 7 musicians, 5 scientists, 5 US representatives, 4 artists.
- Henry J. Heinz1844-1919American businessman
- Erroll Garner1921-1977American jazz pianist and composer
- Henry Clay Frick1849-1919American industrialist
- John Bell Hatcher1861-1904American paleontologist
- Dick Thornburgh1932-2020American politician
- Chuck Cooper1926-1984American basketball player
- John Heinz1938-1991American businessman and politician
- Bertha Lamme1864-1943American engineer
- William Wilkins1779-1865United States federal judge
- Arnold Edward Ortmann1863-1927Prussian-born United States naturalist and zoologist
- Pie Traynor1898-1972American baseball player
- Edwin Ruud1854-1932Norwegian mechanical engineer
Show all 132 notable burials
- Bernard Fisher1918-2019American surgeon and breast cancer researcher
- Nikolai Lopatnikoff1903-1976Russian-American composer, music teacher and academic
- Perle Mesta1889-1975Socialite
- John Kinley Tener1863-1946American politician
- Vladimir Bakaleinikov1885-1953American conductor
- Willard Rockwell1888-1978American businessman
- Anna Woodward1868-1935American painter
- Childs Frick1883-1965American paleontologist
- George Hetzel1826-1899American painter
- Matthew A. Dunn1886-1942American politician
- William Flinn1851-1924American politician
- Charles Harris1908-1998American photographer
- Frederic Archer1838-1901British musician
- Mary Bidwell Breed1870-1949American chemist
- Alvin P. Shapiro1920-1998American physician
- Arthur Sixsmith1880-1969Canadian ice hockey player
- Ernest T. Weir1875-1957American businessman
- Henry Koerner1915-1991American artist
- Howard E. Campbell1890-1971American politician
- Jock Sutherland1889-1948American football player and coach
- Julian Kennedy1852-1932American engineer
- Robert Gibson1869-1949American judge and baseball player
- Ad Gumbert1868-1925Major League Baseball player
- Bill Bishop1869-1932American baseball player
- Bill Blair1863-1890American baseball player
- Bill Nunn1925-2014American journalist and football scout
- Bob Peck1891-1932American football center
- David L. Clark1864-1939American businessman
- Earl Francis1935-2002American baseball player
- Eddie Bald1874-1946(1874-1946) American racing cyclist and racecar driver
- Edward Manning Bigelow1850-1916American politician
- Jack Heinz1908-1987American business executive
- James Martinus Schoonmaker1842-1927Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Jim Gardner1874-1905American baseball player
- Jim Gray1862-1938American baseball player
- Robert L. Vann1879-1940African American lawyer, politician, and newspaper publisher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Rust Heinz1914-1939American car and boat designer
- Tom Boggs1905-1952American writer
- Walt Harper1926-2006American musician
- Will Thompson1870-1962American baseball player
- William Larimer Mellon, Sr.1868-1949American businessman
- A. Leo Weil1858-1938American lawyer
- Billy Gumbert1865-1946American baseball player
- Charlie Williams1943-2005American baseball umpire
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin1883-1965American activist
- Edward Jay Allen1830-1915American pioneer
- Edward V. Babcock1864-1948American mayor
- Frank Newman Speller1875-1968American metallurgist
- George Wilson1816-1902American politician from Pittsburgh
- Helen Clay Frick1888-1984American philanthropist
- Henry P. Ford1837-1905American mayor
- James Bert Garner1870-1960American chemical engineer
- Juan Jorge Schäffer1930-2017Uruguayan-American mathematician
- Kate Everest Levi1859-1938American educator and social worker
- Lew Moren1883-1966American baseball player
- Ren Wylie1861-1951American baseball player
- Robert Pitcairn1836-1909American businessman
- Samuel Harden Church1858-1943American writer
- Squiz Pillion1894-1962American baseball player
- Thomas Hannah1867-1935American architect
- William Smith Fraser1852-1897American architect
- Arthur Hamerschlag1872-1927American engineer
- Charles L. Davisdied 1900American actor and theatre owner
- Charles L. Taylor1857-1922American industrialist
- Churchill Kohlman1906-1983American songwriter
- Edward Wiley Duckwall1866-1916
- Elsie Hillman1925-2015American philanthropist and republican activist
- Eugene Messler1873-1950American football player
- George Oliver Challinor1876-1954American football coach and dentist
- Grant Dibert1867-1948American-football player
- Guy Williamson1890-1930American football player and coach
- J. A. Pierce1874-1956American football coach
- J. Hartwell Hillman Sr.1841-1911American businessman
- James Ross Mellon1846-1934American financer
- Jesse H. Lippincott1843-1894American businessman
- John Wilkins, Jr.1761-1816United States general
- Josh Gibson, Jr.1930-2003Negro League Baseball player
- Karl Bohren1902-1987American football player
- Kate Hammond Fogarty1871-1936American author
- Lawrence Carra1909-2006American academic and director
- Matthew T. Mellon1897-1992American literature scholar
- Robert Boyd Ward1852-1915American businessman
- Stanton Crawford1897-1966American academic administrator
- Stephen Varzaly1890-1957Orthodox priest
- William S. McEllroy1893-1981American tennis player
- Adelaide Howard Childs Frick1859-1931
- Albert Henry Childs1839-1921American businessman
- B. Richard Teare Jr.1907-1987American electrical engineering professor
- Carrie Mayer1899-1999American singer and pianist
- Chester G. Fisher1881-1965American engineer, company founder and athlete
- David Herbert Hostetter1859-1924Millionaire heir
- Ezra Morgan Wood1838-1912American clergyman
- Frederic Burton Shipp1868-1932Executive secretary of the YMCA
- Harold Reisner1941-2020Furniture restorer and the author of the "Happy kosher" cookbook
- Herbert A. May1892-1966American manufacturer executive
- Howard Agnew Noble1873-1964Art collector and benefactor; steel magnate
- Howard Covode Heinz1877-1941American businessman
- Howard Hale McClintic1867-19389 Apr 1867 - 5 Aug 1938
- Howard N. Eavenson1873-1953American mining engineer
- James Benijah Corey1832-1921
- James Childs Rea1882-1973
- Jerry Danenberg1923-2012
- Lillian Pitcairn1858-1941
- Margaret Mellon1901-1998USA heiress and art collector
- Mary Childs Rea1859-1947
- Mary Hill Taylor1873-19421873-1942
- Moses Dewitt Loomis1822-1862
- Oliver S. Hershman1859-1930American newspaper editor and publisher
- Overton Carr1811-1886American Navy officer
- Overton Carr1850-1881Carr, Overton; class of 1872
- Rachel Hughey Larimer1844-1919Peerage person ID=334693
- Robert J. McCully1923-2011American entertainer in radio and television
- Stanley Loomis1849-1915
- Thomas Doremus Messler1833-1893American railroad executive
- Trevanion Barlow Dallas1801-1841Judge
- William G. Chase1940-1983Psychologist
- William G. Nunn, Sr.1900-1969American editor and civil rights advocate
- William H. Smith1814-1885US journalist, co-founder of Pittsburgh Post
- William Henry Mercur1861-1933American physician
- William Wallace Blackburn1859-1931American businessman
People whose Wikidata entry gives Homewood 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 Homewood 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
- Smithfield East End CemeteryWilkinsburg, PACemetery0.4 mi
- Calvary Episcopal Church ColumbariumBloomfield, PAEpiscopal cemetery1.2 mi
- Turner CemeteryHomestead, PACemetery1.8 mi
- B'Nai Israel CemeteryWilkinsburg, PAJewish cemetery2.1 mi
- Woodlawn Cemetery1460 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PACemetery2.2 mi
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery and MausoleumHomestead, PACatholic cemetery2.2 mi
- Saint Peter's Cemetery6933 Lemington Avenue, Pittsburgh, PAChristian cemetery2.3 mi
- Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery7601 Mount Carmel Road, Verona, PACatholic cemetery2.3 mi
- Agudath Achim / Sons of Israel CemeteryForest Hills, PAJewish cemetery2.6 mi
- Sons of Israel CemeteryForest Hills, PAJewish cemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Homewood Cemetery
- White Memorial Chapel0.7 miFuneral chapel · Pittsburgh · (412) 241-7998
- Spriggs-Watson Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 243-8080
- Lawrence T Miller Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 761-2441
- Coston Funeral Homes & Cremation Services1.3 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 661-5916
- Douglas George W Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 371-8800
- White Memorial Chapel1.3 miFuneral chapel · Pittsburgh · (412) 241-7998
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