Notable Residents

Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill’s most notable residents. To read a brief bio, click on the person’s name.

• Robert Ames – Actor
• John Moran Bailey – Politician
• Henry Barnard – Educator
• James G. Batterson – Businessman
• George Beach – Businessman
• Leverett Brainard – Businessman/Politician
• Donald Lamont Brown – Businessman
• The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Brownell – Episcopal Bishop
• Morgan Gardner Bulkeley – Businessman/Politician
• Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley – Businessman
• William Gedney Bunce – Artist
• John Burnham – Civil War Soldier
• Henry Ward Camp – Civil War Soldier
• George J. Capewell – Inventor/Businessman
• William Baxter Closson – Artist
• Emily Parmely Collins – Women’s Rights Advocate
• Elizabeth Colt – Businesswoman
• Samuel Colt – Inventor/Businessman
• Charles Custis – Businessman
• Lemuel R. Custis – Tuskegee Airman
• Katharine Seymour Day – Artist/Preservationist
• Charles B. Dillingham – Broadway Producer
• Albert Entress – Sculptor
• Edward Miner Gallaudet – Educator
• Sophia Fowler Gallaudet – Educator
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet – Educator
• Guilio “Johnny Duke” Gallucci – Boxer
• William Glackens – Artist
• Annie Warburton Goodrich – Healthcare
• Rev. Francis Goodwin – Minister
• William Gray – Inventor/Businessman
• Henry Green – Former Slave
• Charles K. Hamilton – Aviator
• Joseph Roswell Hawley – Civil War Soldier/Businessman
• Katharine Houghton Hepburn – Women’s Rights Activist
• Katharine Hepburn – Actress
• Thomas Hepburn – Healthcare
• Gilbert F. Heublein – Businessman
• Nicholas Hudson Holt – Actor
• Isabella Beecher Hooker – Women’s Rights Activist
• Mark Howard – Businessman
• Marshall Jewell – Businessman/Politician
• Walter & Henry Keney – Businessmen
• Edwin Denison Morgan – Politician
• John Pierpont Morgan – Businessman
• Benjamin Wistar Morris – Architect
• Col. Charles Harvey Northam – Businessman/Philanthropist
• Michael P. Peters – Politician/Businessman
• Albert Linder Pope – Businessman
• Francis A. Pratt – Inventor/Businessman
• Henry Roberts – Businessman/Politician
• Thomas H. Seymour – Politician
• Virginia Thrall Smith – Children’s Rights Advocate
• General Griffin A. Stedman – Civil War Soldier
• Wallace Stevens – Poet/Businessman
• Cincinnatus Taft – Healthcare
• Allen Butler Talcott – Artist
• James Terry – Businessman/Anthropologist
• Isaac Toucey – U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy – Writer
• Joseph Hopkins Twichell – Reverend
• Robert Ogden Tyler – Civil War Soldier
• Charles Dudley Warner – Writer
• Jacob Weidenmann – Landscape Architect
• Gideon Welles – U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Horace Wells – Healthcare
• Amos Whitney – Inventor/Businessman
• Yung Wing – Educator
• George Wright – Artist
• Paul Zimmerman – Artist