About Green Hill Cemetery
Green Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming. It lies about 0.9 mi west of Laramie. The grounds sit at about 7,214 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 23 notable people buried here, including Aven Nelson, Ken Sailors and Grace Raymond Hebard. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1589117. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Mathews Church Columbarium, about 1.0 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Montgomery-stryker Funeral Home in Laramie, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 10 cemeteries we list in Albany County, and 2 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Laramie. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Green Hill Cemetery
Among them: 3 scientists, 2 football players, 2 basketball players, 2 writers.
- Aven Nelson1859-1952U.S. botanist
- Ken Sailors1921-2016American basketball player
- Grace Raymond Hebard1861-1936American historian, suffragist, educator, economist and writer
- Thurman Arnold1891-1969American judge
- Agnes Mathilde Wergeland1857-1914American historian
- Stephen Wheeler Downey1839-1902American politician
- Wilbur C. Knight1858-1903Geologist
- John Corbett1869-1947American football player and coach of multiple sports, college athletics administrator
- Mary Godat Bellamy1861-1955American politician
- Jim Brandenburg1935-2023American basketball coach
- Justus F. Soule1862-1939American football coach, professor, and university administrator
- Melville C. Brown1838-1928American politician and judge
Show all 23 notable burials
- Dwight Smithson Jeffers1883-1980
- Emma Howell Knight1865-1928American and Canadian academic
- N. K. Boswell1836-1921American sheriff
- Otto L. Burns1868-1941American politician
- Samuel H. Knight1892-1975American geologist
- Vernon Gale1929-1989American football coach
- William H. Holliday1843-1925American politician
- Celia Alice Calhoun1860-1929Botanical collector and wife of botanist Aven Nelson
- John W. Scott1871-1956American zoologist
- Margaret Brebner1879-1960Botanical collector
- T. A. Larson1910-2001American poet
People whose Wikidata entry gives Green 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 Green 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
Funeral homes near Green Hill Cemetery
- Montgomery-stryker Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Laramie · (307) 742-2479
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