About Silver Lake Cemetery
Silver Lake Cemetery is a cemetery near Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin. It lies about 1.3 mi southeast of Portage. The grounds sit at about 843 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 8 notable people buried here, including Zona Gale, Frank A. Haskell and Earl Abell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1843036. The nearest other listed cemetery is Oak Grove Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 72 cemeteries we list in Columbia County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Portage. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Silver Lake Cemetery
Among them: 2 business leaders, 2 writers, 1 football player, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Zona Gale1874-1938American author and playwright
- Frank A. Haskell1828-1864Union Army officer
- Earl Abell1892-1956American football player and coach, basketball coach
- Jabez H. Wells1853-1930American curler and Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Robert B. Wentworth1827-191419th century American politician
- William Thomas Parry1837-189619th century American politician
- William W. Corning1829-189519th century American politician
- William Llewellyn Breese1864-1954American industrialist and banker
People whose Wikidata entry gives Silver Lake 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
43.54813, -89.48612
What Silver Lake 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
- Oak Grove CemeteryPortage, WICemetery0.4 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryPortage, WICemetery1.2 mi
- Old Fort Winnebago CemeteryPortage, WICemetery3.0 mi
- Welsh Church CemeteryPortage, WIChurch cemetery4.0 mi
- Welsh CemeteryPortage, WICemetery4.0 mi
- Saint Michaels CemeteryPortage, WICemetery4.2 mi
- Pacific CemeteryPortage, WICemetery5.0 mi
- Bach CemeteryPortage, WICemetery5.0 mi
- Saint Paul Lutheran CemeteryPortage, WILutheran cemetery5.2 mi
- Spicer CemeteryPortage, WICemetery5.5 mi
Funeral homes near Silver Lake Cemetery
- Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Portage · (608) 742-2126
- Kratz Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Portage · (608) 742-5585
- Archie Monuments Inc4.1 miMonument dealer · Portage · (608) 742-3818
- Grasse Funeral Service9.0 miFuneral home · Pardeeville · (608) 429-2020
- Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Homes12 miFuneral home · Poynette · (608) 635-2763
- Redlin Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Baraboo · (608) 356-6571
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