About Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery near Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. It lies about 2.2 mi west of Salt Lake City. The grounds sit at about 4,603 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 46 notable people buried here, including Ina Claire, George Dern and John Smith. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1451149. The nearest other listed cemetery is Congregation Montefiore Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the north. The nearest mortuary we know of is Evans & Early Mortuary in Salt Lake City, about 1.5 mi away. It is one of 45 cemeteries we list in Salt Lake County, and 29 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Salt Lake County dates to 1877. 4 of the 45 listings in Salt Lake County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Salt Lake City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Among them: 5 business leaders, 5 US representatives, 4 writers, 3 actors, 3 governors, 3 World War I veterans, 2 inventors and engineers, 2 journalists.
- Ina Claire1893-1985American stage and film actress
- George Dern1872-1936American politician
- John Smith1931-1995American actor
- Arthur Brown1843-1906United States Senator from Utah
- Arthur Lloyd Thomas1851-1924Governor of Utah Territory from 1889-93
- Charles C. Moore1866-1958American politician, Idaho
- J. Bracken Lee1899-1996Politician and United States Army service member
- Clarence Emir Allen1852-1932United States Congressman from Utah
- Elmer O. Leatherwood1872-1929United States Congressman from Utah
- Arthur Moulton1873-1962American bishop and memoirist
- Jacob B. Blair1821-1901American politician
- Jabez G. Sutherland1825-1902American politician
Show all 46 notable burials
- Annie Adams1847-1916American stage actor
- Charles Sweeny1882-1963American soldier of fortune
- Frederick Salomon1826-1897Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War
- James B. McKean1821-1879Union Army officer and American politician
- Stephen Friel Nuckolls1825-1879American politician
- Jennie Anderson Froiseth1849-1930Founder of literary club, and anti-polygamy crusader
- John F. Tobin1880-1954American football player and coach
- Stanley B. Mulaik1902-1995American zoologist
- Abiel Leonard1848-1903Bishop of Utah
- Amanda Swenson1852-1919Swedish-American singer, teacher
- Clarence Bamberger1886-1984American mining executive and politician
- F. B. Willis1844-1914American politician, 3rd lieutenant governor of Idaho
- Frances Elliott Clark1860-1958American music academic
- George Von Elm1901-1961Professional golfer, golf course architect
- Glen Sorenson1920-1972American football player
- Robert Vincent Derrah1895-1946American architect
- Theodore Bruback1851-1904American industrialist
- William Nelson1839-191319th century American politician and newspaper publisher
- Caroline Honeyman1829-1916Wife of John Adams Poole Ten Eyck
- Caroline Ten Eyck1860-1932Wife of Samuel Vincent Derrah
- Charles Carroll Goodwin1832-1917American editor and author
- Emma McVicker1846-1916American politician
- Frank Brickey1912-1994American sports coach
- Pete Carlston1911-1992American athletics coach
- Albert Clay Dean1849-189226 Dec 1849 - 7 May 1892
- Alexander Lyon Pollock1852-1894Austro-Hungarian American businessman, journalist, and diplomat
- B. Roland Lewis1882-1959American professor of English
- Cecil W. Creel1889-1968Professor of agriculture
- Charlotte Brown Dern1875-1952- 1 Sep 1952 Chicago
- Henry S. Foote Jr.1838-1905American lawyer
- James T. Goodwin1878-1927
- Lily Munsell Ritchie1867-1943American writer
- Norman B. Ross1929-2019American television producer and director
- Samuel H. Goodwin1862-1951American Masonic Grand Master
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Olivet 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.
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What Mount Olivet 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
- Congregation Montefiore CemeterySalt Lake City, UTChurch cemetery1.3 mi
- Montefiore CemeterySalt Lake City, UTCemetery1.3 mi
- B'Nai Israel CemeterySalt Lake City, UTJewish cemetery1.4 mi
- Fort Douglas Post Cemetery405 South Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UTMilitary cemetery1.4 mi
- Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery275 North U Street, Salt Lake City, UTCatholic cemetery1.4 mi
- Salt Lake City CemeterySalt Lake City, UTMunicipal cemetery1.6 mi
- Larkin Sunset Lawn CemeteryCanyon Rim, UTCemetery1.7 mi
- Salt Lake Memorial MausoleumSalt Lake City, UTCemetery1.8 mi
- Shaare Tzedek CemeterySalt Lake City, UTCemetery1.9 mi
- Shaarey Tzedek CemeterySalt Lake City, UTCemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olivet Cemetery
- Evans & Early Mortuary1.5 miMortuary · Salt Lake City · (801) 355-5323
- Utah Simple Cremations1.7 miCremation provider · Salt Lake City · (801) 910-5317
- Neil O'donnell Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Salt Lake City · (801) 363-6641
- City View Mortuary1.8 miMortuary · Salt Lake City · (801) 363-7065
- Eternity Funerals LLC1.8 miFuneral home · Salt Lake City · (801) 449-1568
- Russon Brothers Mortuary1.9 miMortuary · Salt Lake City · (801) 328-8846
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