About Maplewood Cemetery
Maplewood Cemetery is a cemetery near Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia. The grounds sit at about 472 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including John M. Jones, Charles Goodyear and Richard Thomas Walker Duke. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1479038. The nearest other listed cemetery is Daughters of Zion Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hill & Wood Funeral Service in Charlottesville, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 6 cemeteries we list in Charlottesville City, and 56 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Charlottesville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Maplewood Cemetery
Among them: 5 Civil War veterans, 3 US representatives, 2 writers, 1 baseball player.
- John M. Jones1820-1864Confederate States Army officer
- Charles Goodyear1804-1876American politician
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke1822-1898Nineteenth-century congressman and lawyer from Virginia
- Shelton Leake1812-1884American politician
- Armistead Lindsay Long1825-1891Brigadier General for the Confederate States of America, and later wrote the 1886 book Memoirs of Robert E. Lee
- Charlie Ferguson1863-1888American baseball pitcher, 1863-1888
- J. Thompson Brown1835-1864Confederate States Army officer,
- Benjamin Franklin Ficklin1827-1871American businessman
- Sally Cottrell Cole1800-1875Enslaved maid and seamstress at Monticello
- St. George Tucker1828-1863American lawyer and writer
- William Henry Stewart1838-1912American attorney, newspaper editor, historian, and lieutenant-colonel
- Edgar Woods1827-1910Born 1827; died 1910
Show all 13 notable burials
- Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph1834-1907
People whose Wikidata entry gives Maplewood 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 Maplewood 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
- Daughters of Zion CemeteryCharlottesville, VACemetery0.7 mi
- Hebrew Cemetery - CharlottesvilleCharlottesville, VAJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Jewish CemetaryCharlottesville, VAJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Oakwood CemeteryCharlottesville, VACemetery0.8 mi
- Riverview CemeteryPantops, VACemetery1.0 mi
- Monticello Memorial ParkCharlottesville, VAMemorial park1.5 mi
- Jefferson TombCharlottesville, VACemetery1.9 mi
- Monticello GraveyardCharlottesville, VACemetery2.0 mi
- University Confederate CemeteryCharlottesville, VACemetery2.2 mi
- University of Virginia Cemetery and ColumbariumCharlottesville, VACemetery2.2 mi
Funeral homes near Maplewood Cemetery
- Hill & Wood Funeral Service0.4 miFuneral home · Charlottesville · (434) 296-6148
- A Better Cremation0.5 miCremation provider · Charlottesville · (434) 484-2157
- W.A. Hartman Memorials Charlottesville0.6 miMonument dealer · Charlottesville · (434) 293-2570
- Mc Clenny Funeral Services Inc0.6 miFuneral home · Charlottesville · (434) 293-8090
- J.F. Bell Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Charlottesville · (434) 295-9169
- Teague Funeral Service2.6 miFuneral home · Charlottesville · (434) 977-0005
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