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This is a list of cemeteries in the United States, with selected interments. The list includes both active and historic sites, and does not include pet cemeteries. At the end of the list by states, cemeteries in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam are included.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

[edit] Alabama

See also Category: Cemeteries in Alabama

[edit] Alaska

Main article: List of cemeteries in Alaska

[edit] Arizona

Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone – Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury
Greenwood Memory Lawn, Phoenix – Walter Winchell
Mesa Cemetery, Mesa – Waylon Jennings and Ernesto Miranda
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix
Paradise Memorial Gardens, Scottsdale – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Pioneer & Military Memorial Park, Phoenix – Darrell Duppa and King Woolsey
Prescott National Cemetery
Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Sierra Vista
St. Francis Catholic Cemetery
Railroad Park, Willcox – Rex Allen
Wittmann Cemetery, Wittmann

[edit] Arkansas

See also Category: Cemeteries in Arkansas

Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock – known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas

[edit] California

Main article: List of cemeteries in California

See also: List of cemeteries in San Diego

See also Category: Cemeteries in California

[edit] Colorado

See also Category: Cemeteries in Colorado

[edit] Connecticut

See also Category: Cemeteries in Connecticut

[edit] Delaware

See also Category: Cemeteries in Delaware

[edit] Florida

See also Category: Cemeteries in Florida

[edit] Georgia

See also Category: Cemeteries in Georgia (U.S. state)

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Ebenezer Cemetery, Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Rincon, founded 1733 by Lutheran refugees from Salzburg, Austria
Forest Lawn Cemetery, College Park – Whitman Mayo
Jackson Street Cemetery, Athens
Lincoln Cemetery, Atlanta – Tiger Flowers, Rev. Hosea Williams
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta – Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
Morehouse College, Atlanta – Dr. John Hope (President of Atlanta University), Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta – Maynard Jackson, Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell
Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens – Dean Rusk, Ricky Wilson
Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery-large memorial cemetery with hundreds of unmarked confederate graves from the Civil War
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon – Duane Allman, Berry Oakley
South-View Cemetery, Atlanta – Alonzo Herndon, Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King
St. James Episcopal Cemetery, Marietta – JonBenét and Patsy Ramsey
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta (largest cemetery in southeastern United States) – Asa Candler, Henry W. Grady, Joel Chandler Harris

[edit] Hawaii

See also Category: Cemeteries in Hawaii

Hawaiʻi State Veterans Cemetery, Kāneʻohe, Honolulu, official state veterans cemetery for those who served in the United States Armed Forces
Honolulu Catholic Cemetery, Honolulu – Roman Catholic bishops of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, congressional delegate Robert Wilcox, Tahitian princess Eugénie Ninito Sumner
Kuamoʻo Burials, just south of Keauhou Bay, on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi – site of the last battle between Liholiho (Kamehameha II) and Kekuaokalani in 1819
Makawao Union Church, and adjacent Maui Veteran's Cemetery
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, Honolulu, official United States Armed Forces cemetery comparable to Arlington National Cemetery – governors of Hawaiʻi, Challenger disaster victims
Oahu Cemetery, many early pioneers of Honolulu
Royal Mausoleum at Maunaʻala, Nuʻuanu, Honolulu, official resting place of the Kamehameha and Kalākaua dynasties who reigned over the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu – those killed during the attack on Honolulu on 7 December 1941
Valley of the Temples, Kāneʻohe, Honolulu, home of the Byodo-In Temple – Walter F. Dillingham, Ferdinand E. Marcos (for a brief period, until his body was returned to the Philippines)
Waiola Church, 1820s Hawaiian royalty

[edit] Idaho

See also Category: Cemeteries in Idaho

Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum – Ernest Hemingway

[edit] Illinois

See also: List of cemeteries in Ogle County, Illinois

See also: List of cemeteries in Vermilion County, Illinois

See also: List of cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois

See also Category: Cemeteries in Illinois

Altenheim Cemetery, Forest Park
Angolian Cemetery, Lake Villa
Arlington Memorial Cemetery, Rockford
Avon Centre Cemetery, Grayslake
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago
Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery, Alsip – Ezzard Charles, Candy Jim Taylor, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters
Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island – listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994. Memorials created by significant artists, including Alexander Stirling Calder and Paul de Vigne.
Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park
East Fox Lake Cemetery, Lake Villa
Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington – Adlai E. Stevenson I, Adlai E. Stevenson II, David Davis
German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park – Including several anarchists and socialists, including the Haymarket Martyrs, Emma Goldman, and others
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago – Daniel Burnham, Marshall Field, Carter Harrison, Cyrus McCormick, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Potter Palmer, Louis Sullivan
Grass Lake Cemetery, Antioch
Grayslake Cemetery, Grayslake
Hickory Union Cemetery, Antioch
Hillside Cemetery, Antioch
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth – Richard J. Daley
Home Oaks Cemetery, Antioch
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park
Maplewood Cemetery, Rantoul
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside – several bishops and archbishops of Chicago, as well as organized crime figures such as Al Capone
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield – Abraham Lincoln and members of his family
Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago – Cap Anson, Enrico Fermi, Jesse Owens
Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside
Riverside Cemetery, Moline – John Deere
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago – Oscar Mayer, Julius Rosenwald
Sand Lake Cemetery, Lake Villa
St. Adalbert Cemetery, Niles
St. Casimir Cemetery, Chicago
Sunset Lawn Cemetery, Harrisburg
Virden Cemetery, Forest Park
Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago – Jack Ruby, Abe Saperstein
Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park
Showmen's Rest – circus performers

[edit] Indiana

See also: List of cemeteries in Warren County, Indiana

See also: List of cemeteries in Porter County, Indiana

See also Category: Cemeteries in Indiana

Beech Grove Cemetery, Orange County
Calumet Park Cemetery, Merrillville – Third largest cemetery in Indiana
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis – third largest cemetery in the United States (by area) and burial place of John Dillinger, Charles Fairbanks, Dr .Richard Jordan Gatling, President Benjamin Harrison, Vice Presidents Charles W. Fairbanks, Thomas A. Hendricks and Thomas R. Marshall, James Whitcomb Riley, eleven Indiana governors and fourteen Indianapolis mayors
Dayton Cemetery, Dayton – Shannon Hoon
Earlham Cemetery, Richmond
Heady Lane Cemetery, Fishers
Holy Family Cemetery, New Albany
Hunt Cemetery, Orange County
Lutherania Cemetery, Richmond
Park Cemetery, Fairmount – James Dean
Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Parke County

[edit] Iowa

See also Category: Cemeteries in Iowa

See also: List of cemeteries in Adair County, Iowa

Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington – Civil War general John Murray Corse, Senator James Wilson Grimes
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque – Oran Pape, the only trooper of the Iowa State Patrol to be murdered in the line of duty
Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City – cartoonist Jay Darling
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Davenport
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport – Bix Beiderbecke
Oakland Cemetery, Centerville – Governor Francis M. Drake
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City
Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport
St. Joseph Cemetery, Earling

[edit] Kansas

Main article: List of cemeteries in Kansas

See also Category: Cemeteries in Kansas

[edit] Kentucky

See also Category: Cemeteries in Kentucky

Camp Nelson National Cemetery, located about 7 miles (11 km) south of Nicholasville in southern Jessamine County
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville – Colonel Sanders
Danville National Cemetery, Danville
Lebanon National Cemetery, Lebanon
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington – John C. Breckinridge, Henry Clay, John Hunt Morgan
Mill Springs National Cemetery, Nancy, 8 miles (13 km) west of Somerset – on the list of the first National Cemeteries created.
Moffitt Cemetery, Milton – part of the film Some Came Running was shot on location here
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville – President Zachary Taylor

[edit] Louisiana

See also Category: Cemeteries in Louisiana

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Pineville
Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport
Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Minden
Hill Crest Memorial Park, Bossier City – Johnny Horton
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans – P.G.T. Beauregard, Al Hirt. Because of the high water table (parts of the city are below sea level), graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
Minden Cemetery, Minden. Earliest graves to 1840s, with Civil War interments
St. Louis Cemetery #1, #2, #3, New Orleans – Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians

[edit] Maine

See also Category: Cemeteries in Maine

Ancient Cemetery, Wiscasset^[1]
Brooklin Cemetery, North Brooklin^[1]
Buck Cemetery, Bucksport^[1]
Eastern Cemetery, Portland^[1]
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland
First Parish Cemetery, York^[1]
Forest City Cemetery, Portland
Fort Hill Cemetery, Winslow
Gray Cemetery, Gray^[1]
Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor^[1]
O'Brien Cemetery, Machias^[1]
Old Burying Yard, Kittery Point^[1]
Old Burying Yard, York^[1]
Old German Church and Cemetery, Waldoboro^[1]
Orgonon, Rangeley^[1]
Oxford Congregational Church and Cemetery
Round Pond Cemetery (Charlotte, Maine) Charlotte
State of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta^[1]
Togus National Cemetery, Chelsea^[1]
Webster Cemetery, Freeport – Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of L.L.Bean^[1]
Western Cemetery, Portland

[edit] Maryland

See also Category: Cemeteries in Maryland

[edit] Massachusetts

See also Category: Cemeteries in Massachusetts

See also: List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts

Old Ship Church Cemetery, Hingham, Massachusetts

Assonet Burying Ground, Assonet – John M. Deane, Civil War era Medal of Honor recipient
Bay Path Cemetery, Springfield^[1]
Beth Israel Cemetery, Clarksburg
Boston United Hand in Hand Cemetery, West Roxbury and Dedham. Cemetery Detail Map
Burial Hill, Plymouth^[1]
Burying Point and Witch Trial Victims Memorial, Salem^[1]
Center Cemetery, Stockbridge^[1]
Copp's Hill, Boston – 17th century
Deerfield Cemetery, Deerfield^[1]
Evergreen Cemetery, Leominster^[1]
Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, garden cemetery, founded 1848
Granary Burying Ground, Boston – 17th century
Greek Theology School of Boston – Archbishop Iakovos of America
Green River Cemetery, Greenfield^[1]
Hillside Cemetery, Shrewsbury^[1]
Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline – Joseph P. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (first resting place of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, later reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery)
Hope Cemetery, Worcester^[1]
King's Chapel, Boston – 17th century
Knights Cemetery, Pelham^[1]
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell – early garden cemetery (1840s)
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, first garden cemetery, picturesque landscaping; bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in The Thomas Crown Affair
Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River^[1]
Old Burial Hill, Marblehead^[1]
Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport^[1]
Old Ship Church Cemetery, Hingham
Quabbin Park Cemetery, Quabbin Valley^[1]
Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, founded late 17th century
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord^[1] – Henry David Thoreau^[1]
Spider Gates Cemetery / Old Quaker Cemetery, Leicester
Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott Resting place of Anthony and Lydia Pizzi
Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline
Westerly Burial Ground, West Roxbury. Established in 1683.
Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester
Worcester County Memorial Park, Paxton^[4]^[1]

[edit] Michigan

See also Category: Cemeteries in Michigan

[edit] Minnesota

See also Category: Cemeteries in Minnesota

Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis – Orville Freeman, Hubert Humphrey, Muriel Humphrey, Frank C. Mars, Karl Mueller, Floyd B. Olson, Rudy Perpich, John S. Pillsbury, Tiny Tim, Paul Wellstone
Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery – oldest cemetery in Minneapolis, and the final resting place of many of the city's first citizens; listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul – Harriet Bishop, Alexander Ramsey, Henry Sibley

[edit] Mississippi

Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Philadelphia, Mississippi

[edit] Missouri

See also Category: Cemeteries in Missouri

[edit] Montana

Main article: List of cemeteries in Montana

See also Category: Cemeteries in Montana

[edit] Nebraska

See also Category: Cemeteries in Nebraska

See also: List of Cemeteries in Omaha

[edit] Nevada

See also Category: Cemeteries in Nevada

[edit] New Hampshire

See also Category: Cemeteries in New Hampshire

Ambleside Cemetery, Barrington^[1]
Beebe Family Cemetery, Star Island, Isles of Shoals^[1]
Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord – Robert O. Blood, William E. Chandler, George G. Fogg, Jacob Harold Gallinger, Isaac Hill, Henry F. Hollis, Christa McAuliffe, Edward H. Rollins, William Smith, Robert W. Upton
Chester Village Cemetery, Chester^[1]
Eagle Pond Cemetery, Wilmot^[1]
Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua^[1]
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Wilton^[1]
Lower Warner Cemetery, Warner^[1]
Matthew Thornton Cemetery, Merrimack^[1]
Merrill Cemetery, Manchester – "Commodore" George Washington Morrison Nutt, promoted by P.T. Barnum
Old Burying Ground, Jaffrey Center^[1]
Old Burying Ground / Elm Street Cemetery, Milford^[1]
Old Burying Ground, Washington^[1]
Old North Burial Ground, Portsmouth^[1]
Old North Cemetery, Concord^[1] – U.S. President Franklin Pierce
Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester – Governor Person Colby Cheney, composer Horace Johnson
Plains Cemetery, Kingston^[1]
Valley Cemetery, Manchester

[edit] New Jersey

Main article: List of cemeteries in New Jersey

See also: List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey

See also Category: Cemeteries in New Jersey

Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson – Vice President Garret A. Hobart
Harleigh Cemetery, Camden – poet Walt Whitman
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark – governors Franklin Murphy, William Pennington and Marcus Lawrence Ward
Princeton Cemetery, Princeton – President Grover Cleveland, Vice President Aaron Burr and Declaration signer John Witherspoon
Riverview Cemetery, Trenton – General George B. McClellan
Rosedale Cemetery, Linden
Rosehill Cemetery and Crematory, Linden

[edit] New Mexico

See also Category: Cemeteries in New Mexico

[edit] New York

See also Category: Cemeteries in New York

Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands (one of the oldest and largest in New York) – President Chester A. Arthur
Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse
Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Bayside, Queens
Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle
Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens
Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale – Aaliyah, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X
Flushing Cemetery, Queens – Louis Armstrong
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo – Willis Carrier, Shirley Chisholm, William Fargo, President Millard Fillmore, Rick James, Kristen Pfaff, Red Jacket
Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne – James Cagney, Babe Ruth
Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, Stillwater
Goodleburg Cemetery, Wales
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Morse, F.A.O. Schwarz, William March "Boss" Tweed
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, New Rochelle
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester – Louise Brooks, George Mogridge
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla – Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ayn Rand
Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens
Machpelah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens – Harry Houdini
Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, Queens
Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island – several members of the Vanderbilt family
Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester – Susan B. Anthony, John Jacob Bausch, Hartwell Carver, Frederick Douglass, Frank E. Gannett, Myron Holley, Henry Lomb, Lewis Henry Morgan, George B. Selden, Hiram Sibley
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens
Mount Richmond Cemetery, Staten Island (2nd cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association – burial place of 23 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City
New York City Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls – Annie Edson Taylor, Augustus Seymour Porter, Peter Porter, Matthew Webb
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse
Oakwood Cemetery, Troy – Samuel Wilson aka Uncle Sam
Old Colonial Cemetery, Johnstown – many Revolutionary War soldiers
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, Moore's Mill
Pleasant Lawn Cemetery, Parish
Saint Anthony's Lutheran Cemetery, Sanborn
Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848.
Saint Charles Cemetery, East Farmingdale
Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn
Silver Lake Cemetery, Staten Island (1st cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow (named by Washington Irving) – Elizabeth Arden, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, Samuel Gompers, Washington Irving, William Rockefeller
Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City – Astor family members; Blair family members; Alexander Hamilton
Union Cemetery, Fort Edward
Vale Cemetery, Schenectady – Charles Steinmetz
West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne
Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson – George Gershwin
Witmer Road Cemetery, Niagara Falls
Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx – Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Joseph Pulitzer
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira – Samuel Clemens, Ernie Davis, John W. Jones, Ross Gilmore Marvin, Alexander Randall, Hal Roach, Lucius Robinson

[edit] North Carolina

See also Category: Cemeteries in North Carolina

[edit] North Dakota

See also Category: Cemeteries in North Dakota

[edit] Ohio

See also Category: Cemeteries in Ohio

Brock Cemetery, Greenville – Annie Oakley
Buck Cemetery, Evansport
Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland – Ed Delahanty, Frank Lausche, Stella Walsh and Frankie Yankovic
Enon Cemetery, Enon
Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus – William Dennison, Jim Rhodes, Eddie Rickenbacker and James Thurber
Knob Prairie Cemetery, Enon
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland – President James A. Garfield, Eliot Ness, John D. Rockefeller
Mansfield Catholic Cemetery, Mansfield
Mound Cemetery, Marietta - Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Tupper
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Columbus – Anna Marie Hahn, Graham McNamee, John Ambrose Watterson
Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown – John Alexander Logan, Jr., John D. "Bonesetter" Reese, William Aubrey Thomas, David Tod, George Dennick Wick
Oxford Cemetery, Oxford
Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool – founded 1883
Rose Hill Cemetery, Massillon – Paul Brown
Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, Cincinnati – largest non-profit private (second largest overall) cemetery in the United States (725+ acres) – Bob Braun, Salmon P. Chase, Levi Coffin
Union Cemetery, Columbus – Woody Hayes, Dave Thomas, Moses Fleetwood Walker
West Lawn Cemetery, Canton - Frank T. Bow, William R. Day, Henry Timken
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton – Erma Bombeck, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Orville and Wilbur Wright
Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo – Samuel M. Jones, Edward Drummond Libbey, Morrison Waite

[edit] Oklahoma

See also Category: Cemeteries in Oklahoma

Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City – Wiley Post
Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa – Susan Alamo, Sam Kinison, Carl Morton, Evelyn Roberts, Bob Wills
Ross Cemetery, Park Hill – Cherokee chief John Ross

[edit] Oregon

See also Category: Cemeteries in Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

See also Category: Cemeteries in Pennsylvania

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville neighborhood) – Stephen Foster, Josh Gibson
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Chestnut Ridge and Schellsburg Union Church and Cemetery, Bedford County
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia – Benjamin Franklin and four other signers of the Declaration of Independence
Christ Hamilton United Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Stroudsburg
East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg
Easton Cemetery, Easton – George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
Eden Cemetery, Collingdale
Erie Cemetery, Erie
Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl – Jayne Mansfield
Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, at the dedication of which in November, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address
God's Acre, Bethlehem (historic Moravian graveyard)
Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown – victims of the Johnstown Flood
Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia
Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh – August Wilson
Har Nebo Cemetery, Philadelphia
Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg
Homewood Cemetery, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, garden cemetery founded 1836
Lobb's Cemetery and Yohogania County Courthouse Site, West Elizabeth
Magnolia Cemetery, Philadelphia
Mikveh Israel Cemetery, Philadelphia, oldest Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia; founded 1738
Monongahela Cemetery, Monongahela City
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia
Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia
Odd Fellows Cemetery^[12], Philadelphia; founded 1849 and removed circa 1951; original burial site of George Lippard
National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, Bridgeville
Oakland Cemetery, Indiana
Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, Perryopolis
Resurrection Cemetery, Wescosville – cemetery for the Diocese of Allentown (Lehigh Valley)
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh – Andy Warhol
St. Paul's Union Church and Cemetery, Ringtown
Slate Hill Cemetery, Morrisville
Trinity Cemetery, Erie
Vine St. Cemetery, Hazleton – scenes from the movie Gypsy 83 were filmed here
Washington Crossing National Cemetery, Newtown
Weatherly Cemetery, Weatherly
Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport, one of the largest in the eastern United States
The Woodlands, Philadelphia, a National Historic Landmark

[edit] Rhode Island

See also Category: Cemeteries in Rhode Island

Arnold Burying Ground, Newport, Benedict Arnold (governor)
Bow-Wow Villa-Cemetery, Portsmouth^[1]
Chestnut Hill Baptist Church and Cemetery, Exeter^[1]
Common Burying Ground, Newport (adjacent to Island Cemetery), established in 1640
DeWolf Cemetery, Bristol^[1]
Island Cemetery, Newport (adjacent to Common Burying Ground)
Newport Memorial Park Cemetery, Middletown^[1]
North Burial Ground, Providence, oldest cemetery in Providence
Old Burying Ground, Little Compton^[1]
Old Friends' Burial Ground, Jamestown^[1]
Palatine Cemetery, Block Island^[1]
Platform Cemetery, Kingstown^[1]
Pocasset Hill Cemetery, Tiverton^[1]
Precious Blood Cemetery, Woonsocket^[1]
St. Mary's Churchyard, Portsmouth^[1]
Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, established in 1846
Touro Cemetery, Newport – colonial era Jewish cemetery, subject of a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[edit] South Carolina

See also Category: Cemeteries in South Carolina

[edit] South Dakota

See also Category: Cemeteries in South Dakota

Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis
De Smet Cemetery, De Smet – members of the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis
Hot Springs National Cemetery, Hot Springs
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood – Seth Bullock, Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane
Saint John Cemetery, Beresford – Senator William J. Bulow
Internet List of South Dakota Cemeteries (1000+)

[edit] Tennessee

See also Category: Cemeteries in Tennessee

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon
Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga
Davidson Cemetery, Fredonia
Delap Cemetery, Campbell County
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis – Kit Dalton, Shelby Foote, Jimmie Lunceford
First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville – Lefty Frizzell
Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland
Graceland, Memphis – Elvis Presley
Greenwood Cemetery, Clarksville
Harrison Cemetery, Oakwood
Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville – Johnny Cash, Sheb Wooley
Knoxville National Cemetery, Knoxville
Lone Oak Cemetery, Lewisburg – Jim Nance McCord, Buford Ellington
Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis – Shawn Lane, Sam Phillips, Charlie Rich
Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville – a significant number of politicians and country music stars
Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City
Nashville National Cemetery, Madison
Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville
Riverview Cemetery, Clarksville
Smith Austin Cemetery, Indian Mound
Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville – Roy Acuff, Hank Snow
Stones River National Cemetery, Murfreesboro
Wheat Community African Burial Ground, Oak Ridge
Wilee's Chapel Cemetery, Woodlawn
Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery, Nutbush
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville – Otis Blackwell, Johnny Paycheck, Webb Pierce

[edit] Texas

See also Category: Cemeteries in Texas

Texas State Cemetery, Austin

Baby Head Cemetery, Llano
Der Stadt Friedhof – Pioneer cemetery
Glenwood Cemetery, Houston – Roy Hofheinz, Howard Hughes, Glenn McCarthy, Gene Tierney
Jim Reeves Memorial Site, Carthage – Jim Reeves
Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas – Stevie Ray Vaughan, J. D. Tippit
Meadowlawn Memorial Park, San Antonio – ZerNona Black
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth – Lee Shepherd
Oakwood Cemetery, Waco – three Texas governors
Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870
Seaside Memorial Park, Corpus Christi – Selena
Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas – Mary Kay Ash, Greer Garson, Mickey Mantle, John Tower
Texas State Cemetery, Austin
Whittaker Memorial Cemetery, Kildare, Texas

[edit] Utah

See also Category: Cemeteries in Utah

Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City – largest city-owned cemetery in the United States

[edit] Vermont

See also Category: Cemeteries in Vermont

[edit] Virginia

See also Category: Cemeteries in Virginia

Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery, Suffolk
Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington – established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's plantation at Arlington House, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg
Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington
Dumfries Cemetery, Dumfries
Cemetery for Hebrew Confederate Soldiers, Richmond - the only Jewish military cemetery outside Israel
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond – two U.S. presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, and the only Confederate States president, Jefferson Davis
National Memorial Park / King David Memorial Gardens, Falls Church
Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex, Old Town, Alexandria
Woodland Cemetery – historically African American cemetery

[edit] Washington

See also Category: Cemeteries in Washington (state)

Calvary Cemetery, in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood of Seattle
Comet Lodge Cemetery, Beacon Hill, Seattle – abandoned; founded 1895
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle
Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Seattle, adjacent to Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle
Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent

[edit] West Virginia

See also Category: Cemeteries in West Virginia

[edit] Wisconsin

See also Category: Cemeteries in Wisconsin

[edit] Wyoming

See also Category: Cemeteries in Wyoming

Carbon Cemetery, Carbon County, in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carbon County, Wyoming
Lakeview Cemetery, Cheyenne – Amos Walker Barber, Michael John Blyzka, Joseph Maull Carey, Robert Davis Carey
Lusk Cemetery, Lusk – Frank Aloysius Barrett
Highland Cemetery, Casper – Henry H. Schwartz, Patrick Joseph Sullivan
Fort Halleck (contained a small cemetery)

[edit] Other territories

[edit] District of Columbia

See also Category: Cemeteries in Washington, D.C.

Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Holy Rood Cemetery (on the grounds of Georgetown University), Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

[edit] Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico National Cemetery

[edit] Guam

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^ St. Clements Cemetery
^ Alexander Cemetery
^ Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery
^ http://books.google.com/books?id=7Vo_AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA407&lpg=PA407&dq=thomas+eddie+triplett&source=bl&ots=0-F7uRQ_66&sig=LULgvf3BUkpejVMd9Wxku5snr4U&hl=en&ei=B_YvSqTxEY3KM52fxIEK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
^ http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN073851229X&id=rzNvCR4_-2YC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120

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Index of Jewish cemeteries in Massachusetts

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