Berkeley Memorial Cemetery in Newport East, Rhode Island
About Berkeley Memorial Cemetery
Berkeley Memorial Cemetery is a cemetery near Newport East, Newport County, Rhode Island. It lies about 2.4 mi west of Newport East. Wikidata records 28 notable people buried here, including John Russell Pope, Anita Stewart and Jimmy Van Alen. The nearest other listed cemetery is Clarke Taggart Burial Ground, about 0.1 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Memorial Funeral Home in Newport, about 3.3 mi away. It is one of 239 cemeteries we list in Newport County, and 234 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 225 of the 239 listings in Newport County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Newport East. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Berkeley Memorial Cemetery
Among them: 1 architect, 1 artist, 1 business leader, 1 journalist.
- John Russell Pope1874-1937American architect
- Anita Stewart1886-1977American socialite and heiress
- Jimmy Van Alen1902-1991Founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
- Alexander Hamilton Rice1875-1956American geographer and explorer
- Muriel Vanderbilt1900-1972American socialite
- Charles Mitchell Thomas1846-1908United States Navy rear admiral
- James Henry Van Alen1819-1886Union Army general
- James J. Van Alen1848-1923American socialite
- Lewis Gouverneur Morris1882-1967Banker and social figure in New York and Newport society
- Alice Munroe Burnham1880-1972American socialite
- Cornelius Hoagland Tangeman1878-1928American automobile manufacturer
- Margarita Pumpelly Smyth1873-1959American artist
Show all 28 notable burials
- Anita Strawbridge Grosvenor1902-1987
- Candace Van Alen1912-2002
- Crawford Hill1898-1960
- Elinor Winifred Dorrance1907-1977Campbell Soup Heiress
- Eliza Frances Shepard Pumpelly1840-1915
- Emeline Harriman1859-1938
- Guy Fairfax Cary1879-1950(died 1950)
- Henry Coleman Drayton1883-1942
- J. Gordon Douglas1882-1960American banker
- James Laurens Van Alen1878-1927
- Mary Lavinia Archbold1871-1951
- Matilda Bigelow1895-1972Peerage person ID=656234
- Ruth Simpson1855-1942
- Theodore Phinney Grosvenor1897-1985American businessman
- Violet Harkness1882-1929
- Willing Spencer1877-1952American lawyer and diplomat
People whose Wikidata entry gives Berkeley Memorial 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 Berkeley Memorial 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
- Clarke Taggart Burial GroundNewport East, RICemetery0.1 mi
- Major William Taggary CemeteryNewport East, RICemetery0.1 mi
- Newport Memorial Park CemeteryNewport East, RIMemorial park0.2 mi
- Reverend Obadiah Holmes LotNewport East, RICemetery0.3 mi
- Philip Smith LotNewport East, RICemetery0.5 mi
- John Peabody LotNewport East, RICemetery0.7 mi
- Gardiner-Hopkins LotNewport East, RICemetery0.7 mi
- Thomas Coggeshall LotNewport East, RICemetery1.1 mi
- Barker Burying GroundNewport East, RICemetery1.1 mi
- Darius Dennis LotNewport East, RICemetery1.2 mi
Funeral homes near Berkeley Memorial Cemetery
- Memorial Funeral Home3.3 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0698
- Hambly Funeral Home3.5 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0698
- Fern Acres Funeral Home3.9 miFuneral home · Little Compton · (401) 635-4757
- O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home4.1 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0932
- Connors Funeral Home7.4 miFuneral home · Portsmouth · (401) 683-2511
- Nardolillo Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Narragansett · (401) 942-1220
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