Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island
Also known as Newport Cemetery 1
About Island Cemetery
Island Cemetery is a cemetery near Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. The grounds sit at about 52 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 115 notable people buried here, including Matthew C. Perry, Richard Morris Hunt and Theodore M. Davis. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1901690. The nearest funeral home we know of is Memorial Funeral Home in Newport, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 239 cemeteries we list in Newport County, and 260 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. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Island Cemetery
Among them: 6 US representatives, 6 writers, 4 actors, 4 artists, 4 Civil War veterans, 4 governors, 3 Medal of Honor recipients, 3 Mexican-American War veterans.
- Matthew C. Perry1794-1858American naval officer
- Richard Morris Hunt1827-1895American architect
- Theodore M. Davis1838-1915American lawyer and egyptologist
- Dorothy Hale1905-1938American socialite, actress
- Isaac Stevens1818-1862Union United States Army general
- Perry Belmont1851-1947American politician
- Christopher Ellery1768-1840American politician
- George P. Wetmore1846-1921American politician
- August Belmont Jr.1853-1924American financier
- Bud Palmer1921-2013American basketball player
- William Paine Sheffield Sr.1820-1907American politician
- Charles C. Van Zandt1830-1894American politician
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- George Lockhart Rives1849-1917American lawyer and politician
- George Washington Greene1811-1883American historian
- Melville Bull1854-1909American politician
- William C. Cozzens1811-1876American politician
- George Henry Calvert1803-1889American dramatist, poet, and biographer
- Hazard Stevens1842-1918United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- William C. Gibbs1789-1871American politician
- William Paine Sheffield, Jr.1857-1919American politician
- Atherton Blight1834-1909American lawyer
- Henry Y. Cranston1789-1864American politician
- Joan Elan1928-1981English actress
- William Gardner Hale1849-1928American classical philologist
- Eleanor Robson Belmont1879-1979British actress
- Henry Gurdon Marquand1819-1902American philanthropist, financier and art collector
- Hugh Auchincloss Steers1962-1995American artist
- Margaret Frances Andrews1894-1945American show dog breeder
- Robert B. Cranston1791-1873American politician
- William Rogers Taylor1811-1889United States Navy admiral
- Duncan Pell1807-1874American politician
- Frank K. Sturgis1847-1932American banker
- Henry Ledyard1812-1880American politician
- Jane Pickens1907-1992American singer on Broadway, radio and television for 20 years and later an organizer in numerous philanthropic and society events
- Maude A. K. Wetmore1873-1951American political organizer and historical preservationist
- Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman1867-1947American heiress and socialite
- Swinburne Hale1884-1937American lawyer and poet
- Walter Hoving1897-1989American businessman
- Benjamin Hazard1774-1841American politician
- D. LeRoy Dresser1862-1915American shipbuilder
- John R. Caswell1834-1918American pharmacist
- Morgan Belmont1892-1953American banker
- Philip M. Rhinelander1869-1939Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
- Thomas Eadie1887-1974Recipient of the Medal of Honor
- William Homer Leavitt1868-1951American artist
- William Watts Sherman1842-1912American businessman
- Arthur Dudley Vinton1852-1906American writer
- Charles Howland Russell1851-1921American lawyer
- DeLancey Astor Kane1844-1915American soldier and socialite 1844-1915
- Edward Tuck French1899-1919
- George F. Brady1867-1903United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- George W. Dresser1837-1883American soldier and civil engineer
- George Washington Tew1829-1884American military officer
- Jessie Robbins Belmont1858-1935American socialite
- John Jermain Slocum1914-1997American diplomat, rare book collector, and bibliographer
- Jonathan Prescott Hall1796-1862American lawyer and judge
- Mahlon Van Horne1840-1910American minister, politician, and diplomat
- Roderick Terry1849-1933American clergyman
- Roderick Terry Jr.1876-1951American lawyer and amateur golfer
- S. Nicholson Kane1846-1906American socialite
- Samuel Adlam1798-1880Baptist minister
- Sybil Kent Kane1856-1946American socialite
- Thomas Slidelldied 1864American judge
- Thomas Suffern Tailer1866-1928American banker
- William Cabell Rives1850-1938American physician and ornithologist
- U.S. Army brigadier general
- Amos Tuck French Jr.1901-1975Peerage person ID=613565
- Ann Rodman1787-1842
- August Belmont III1882-1919American banker
- Beatrice Goelet Greenough1908-1984
- Caroline Slidell Perry1829-1892
- Charles Fairchild1838-19101838-1910
- Charles Kikuchi1916-1988American writer known for The Kikuchi Diary
- Charles L. Sherman1894-1954American classical philologist
- Charlotte Augusta Warren1885-1957
- David King1839-1894Wealthy merchant of New York
- Eileen Gillespie Slocum1915-2008American socialite and philanthropist
- Elbert Jefferson Anderson1800-1888Millionaire
- Elizabeth Fairchild1845-1921Poet 1845-1924
- Elizabeth Love Allen1826-1895
- Elizabeth Ware Wales1809-1890Heiress
- Ella Louise Rives1851-1925Socialite
- Ellen Tuck French1916-1974(born 1916)
- Francis Ormond French1888-1962(born 1888)
- Francis Schroeder1814-1886Peerage person ID=301378
- Gwendolen King1876-1968
- Harriet Knowles Swinburne1853-1928
- Harriet Lyman Hazard1784-1875
- Harriet Stewart Brown1884-195322 Mar 1884 - 10 Feb 1953
- Henry Marquand1857-1921Socialite
- Irene Muriel Sherman1887-1972Peerage person ID=701642
- Isabella Bolton Perry Tiffany1834-1912
- Joanna Hone Russell1856-1933(30 Aug 1856 - 20 Mar 1933)
- John Jermain Slocum, Jr.1941-2017
- Josephine Maria De Wolf Homer1831-1896
- Lawrence Lewis Gillespie1876-1940American banker
- Leonard Treadwell Kendall1857-1911
- Leroy King Jr.1884-1962Socialite heir
- Lola Phinney1860-1949American composer
- Lucy Langdon1841-1921Heiress
- Margaret Lyman Hazard Stevens1817-1913
- Martha Marie Ellery1803-1880
- Mary Frederica Rhinelander1850-19321850
- Mary Nevins1867-1911
- Nina Greenough1847-1897
- Olive Bigelow1886-1980American artist
- Oliver DeLancey Kane1816-1874
- Peerage person ID=183757
- Robert Rogers1758-1835Librarian
- Samuel Powel1818-18851818-1885
- Sarah Swan Whiting1851-1924American socialite
- Stuyvesant LeRoy1836-189712 Nov 1836 - 21 Jun 1897
- William Henry King1818-1897American businessman
- William Shepard Keteltas Wetmore1875-19251875 - uncertain 1925
- William Tillinghast Bull1849-1909American surgeon
People whose Wikidata entry gives Island 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 Island 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
- Common Ground CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.1 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.1 mi
- Common Burial Ground CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.1 mi
- Old City CemeteryNewport, RIMunicipal cemetery0.1 mi
- Braman CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.1 mi
- North Burial CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.2 mi
- Island Annex CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.2 mi
- John Clarke Burial GroundNewport, RICemetery0.3 mi
- Coddington CemeteryNewport, RICemetery0.3 mi
- St. Joseph's Old Catholic CemeteryNewport, RICatholic cemetery0.5 mi
Funeral homes near Island Cemetery
- Memorial Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0698
- Hambly Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0698
- O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Newport · (401) 846-0932
- Nardolillo Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Narragansett · (401) 942-1220
- Patrick Quinn Funerals and Cremations (Fagan-Quinn)7.5 miFuneral home · North Kingstown · (401) 295-5603
- Fern Acres Funeral Home7.7 miFuneral home · Little Compton · (401) 635-4757
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