Cemeteries in Auburn, Alabama

Private Cemeteries in Auburn, Alabama often have specific restrictions, such as religious affiliation or family connections. Military Cemeteries in Auburn, Alabama are primarily for veterans and individuals who have served in the armed forces, and in some cases, their family members. Public Cemeteries in Auburn, Alabama are open to the general public without any particular restrictions.

We offer detailed information for cemeteries in Auburn, Alabama , including the names of deceased individuals, their birth and death dates, data about relatives, and cemetery locations. Additionally, you can obtain historical records and conduct searches for ancestors interred in Auburn, Alabama .

Our database contains records of burials from 5 cemeteries.

Pine Hill was established in 1837 and is the oldest cemetery in Auburn. Judge John J. Harper, Auburn's founder, donated almost 6 acres to the new town to be used as a community burying ground for white settlers and their slaves.

Alabama: Forks of Cypress The Forks of Cypress Cemetery is on the Register of National Historic Places and is believed to be the oldest established cemetery in Alabama, with one of its earliest headstones dating back to 1820 (Jane Hanna, who lived about 17 years).

The 100-acre Maple Hill Cemetery contains more than 80,000 burials –possibly as many as 100,000 – including those of five Alabama governors, U.S. senators and representatives, Confederate and Union veterans, and other prominent state and national figures.

There are a large number of luminaries buried or memorialized at Mount Auburn: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Julia Ward Howe are among the men and women of letters here.

Mount Auburn Cemetery has played an important role in conservation thinking by creating a designed landscape open to the public. The popularity of the design led to political support for local and regional parks and park systems. Mount Auburn has continued to incorporate conservation ideas over time.

Unlike earlier burial grounds in Boston, Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 by Bostonians for their use, but it was located about four miles west of the city. It was the country's first large-scale designed landscape open to the public.

Mount Auburn provides a variety of options for the earth burial of cremated remains, as well as a limited number of individual niches in the Story Chapel Columbarium. Outdoor cremation graves range from individual spaces to graves intended for three or more individuals.

Mount Auburn Cemetery was established in 1831 with a most ambitious vision. Within a forested landscape nestled between Cambridge and Watertown, our founders created an extraordinary place, one where the living mourner would come to find solace and the public would come to find inspiration.