About Ivy Hill Cemetery
Ivy Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Alexandria, Alexandria City, Virginia. It lies about 1.7 mi southeast of Alexandria. The grounds sit at about 105 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 38 notable people buried here, including Wernher von Braun, Fairfax Harrison and Constance Cary Harrison. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1478822. The nearest other listed cemetery is Shuters Hill Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Everly Wheatley Funeral Home in Alexandria, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 13 cemeteries we list in Alexandria City, and 161 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 13 listings in Alexandria City have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Alexandria. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery
Among them: 3 Civil War veterans, 3 writers, 2 business leaders, 2 US representatives, 2 World War II veterans, 1 football player, 1 artist, 1 inventor or engineer.
- Wernher von Braun1912-1977German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect
- Fairfax Harrison1869-1938American railroad president and writer
- Constance Cary Harrison1843-1920American writer
- Charles Creighton Carlin1866-1938American politician
- Nicholas Trist1800-1874American diplomat
- Anne Mills Archbold1873-1968American philanthropist, benefactor, and botanical collector
- Lucy Randolph Mason1882-1959American activist
- John Critcher1820-1901American politician
- Albert Vickers Bryan1899-1984United States federal judge
- Archie Hoxton1875-1951American football player and coach, educator
- Beverley Randolph Mason1834-1910Confederate Army officer
- Burton Harrison1838-1904American lawyer and politician
Show all 38 notable burials
- Charles B. Crawford1884-1951American football coach
- David Funsten1819-1866American politician
- Ellen Coolidge Burke1901-1975American librarian
- Harry H. Vaughan1893-1981Senior U.S. Army Reserve officer, aide to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953
- Hugo Black, Jr.1922-2013American attorney and legal author
- Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow1840-1913Confederate spy
- Clarence Cary1845-1911American lawyer and sportsman
- Frank Hume1843-1906American politician
- John Dominique LaMothe1868-1928Episcopal bishop of Hawaii
- Chalmers Marquis1926-2018American public television and radio advocate
- Lancelot Minor Blackford1837-1914American educator
- Philip H. Patchin1884-1954American journalist and businessman
- Richard Bales1915-1998American composer and conductor
- Anne S. Frobel1816-1907Civil War diarist
- Archibald Cary1815-1854
- Eliza Chew Ambler Blackford1856-1935
- Emily Maverick1803-1850American engraver
- F. Gunther Eyckdied 2009
- Henry Randolph Burke1864-1947Great-great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson
- Hore Browse Trist1832-1896American physician
- Margaret L. Vaughan1894-1976American writer
- Martha Jefferson Trist Burke1826-1915Great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson
- Virginia Graeme Baker1994-2002Namesake for the VGBA
- Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist1801-1881Grandchild of Thomas Jefferson
- Virginia Mason Cooper Dawson1843-1913
People whose Wikidata entry gives Ivy Hill 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 Ivy Hill 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
- Shuters Hill CemeteryHuntington, VACemetery0.8 mi
- 19th century African American CemeteryAlexandria, VACemetery1.3 mi
- Alexandria National Cemetery1450 Wilkes Street, Alexandria, VANational cemetery1.4 mi
- Trinity United Methodist Church CemeteryAlexandria, VAChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Christ Church Episcopal CemeteryAlexandria, VAChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Methodist Protestant CemeteryAlexandria, VAChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Douglass Memorial CemeteryAlexandria, VACemetery1.4 mi
- First Presbyterian Church CemeteryAlexandria, VAChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Bethel CemeteryAlexandria, VACemetery1.5 mi
- Saint Paul's CemeteryAlexandria, VAChristian cemetery1.5 mi
Funeral homes near Ivy Hill Cemetery
- Everly Wheatley Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Alexandria · (703) 998-9200
- Reese Funeral Professionals1.4 miFuneral home · Alexandria · (703) 646-9320
- Northern Virginia Burial & Cremation Society - Alexandria1.5 miCremation provider · Alexandria · (703) 560-0552
- Cunningham Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Alexandria
- Cunningham Turch Funeral Home & Crematory1.5 miCremation provider · Alexandria · (703) 549-1800
- Greene Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Alexandria · (703) 549-0089
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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