Cemeteries in Mount Auburn, Indiana

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

We offer detailed information for cemeteries in Mount Auburn, Indiana , 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 Mount Auburn, Indiana .

Our database contains records of burials from 4 cemeteries.

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.

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.

More than 100,000 individuals are buried and commemorated at Mount Auburn. Among them are writers, educators, reformers, artists, scientists, and inventors whose influence can still be seen throughout Boston, the New England region, nationally, and even internationally.

The Vincennes City Cemetery is made up of three sections of land named “Greenlawn,” “Fairview,” and “Memorial Park.” Greenlawn, dating all the way back to 1788, is recognized as being the oldest public cemetery in the state of Indiana.

The cemetery is the final resting place for many prominent Hoosiers, including President Benjamin Harrison, poet James Whitcomb Riley, and notorious gangster John Dillinger. Today, Crown Hill Cemetery covers more than 550 acres, making it one of the largest private cemeteries in the country.

Mount Auburn Cemetery was designed largely by Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn with assistance from Jacob Bigelow and Alexander Wadsworth. Bigelow came up with the idea for Mount Auburn as early as 1825, though a site was not acquired until five years later.