About Riverview Cemetery
Riverview Cemetery is a cemetery near Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia. It lies about 1.4 mi north of Richmond. The grounds sit at about 151 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 15 notable people buried here, including Susan Archer Talley Weiss, Sands Gayle and Spottswood William Robinson III. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1479435. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Calvary Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Joseph Jenkins, Junior Funeral Home in Richmond, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 18 cemeteries we list in Richmond City, and 60 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Richmond City dates to 1815. 1 of the 18 listings in Richmond City have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Richmond. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverview Cemetery
Among them: 2 artists, 2 baseball players, 2 writers, 1 football player, 1 architect, 1 scientist.
- Susan Archer Talley Weiss1822-1917Poet, b. in Hanover county, Va., 14 Feb., 1835
- Sands Gayle1870-1918American politician
- Spottswood William Robinson III1916-1998US attorney and federal judge
- Herm McFarland1870-1935American baseball player
- Lizzie Petit Cutler1831-19021831?, 16 January 1902 , writer
- Pop Tate1860-1932American baseball player
- Arthur Dawson1858-1922British photographer
- Ben Whaley1926-2001American football player, sports coach
- Henry B. Hucles III1928-1989
- Adolph B. Rice1909-1960American photographer
- Henry Thweatt Owen1831-1921American Confederate soldier
- John Mitchell Brooks1917-1980American civil rights advocate
Show all 15 notable burials
- Oscar Pendleton Wright1886-1964Virginia-based American architect
- Pierre C. Oustinoff1912-1988
- William Carroll Chewning Jr.1945-1975Ph.D. University of Virginia 1970
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverview 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
37.53390, -77.46215
What Riverview 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
- Mount Calvary CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery0.2 mi
- Hollywood CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery0.4 mi
- Civil War CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery0.6 mi
- Maury CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery2.0 mi
- Shockoe Hill CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery2.1 mi
- Franklin Street Burial GroundsRichmond, VAJewish cemetery2.1 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryRichmond, VACemetery2.1 mi
- Hebrew CemeteryRichmond, VAJewish cemetery2.2 mi
- Saint Johns CemeteryRichmond, VAEpiscopal cemetery2.3 mi
- Barton Heights CemeteryRichmond, VA · est. 1815Cemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Riverview Cemetery
- Joseph Jenkins, Junior Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Richmond
- Joseph Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 358-9177
- Mimms Funeral Service1.3 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 232-3874
- Carlton T Brooks Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 233-8027
- Wilson & Associates Funeral Services Inc2.3 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 222-1720
- Bennett Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 359-4481
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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