please email me or my fellow researcher, Michelle Day.
Michelle is in the process of indexing all of the city owned cemeteries.
You can check out her website HERE.
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| Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland | |||||||
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| This is a HUGE cemetery located at 21400 Chagrin Blvd. south of Beachwood. There is a second entrance of State Route 8 (Northfield Road). This is the largest cemetery operated by the city of Cleveland, and the records for several other city cemeteries are kept here in the masoleum, including Alger Cemetery, Erie Street Cemetery, Harvard Grove Cemetery, Monroe Street Cemetery, Woodland Cemetery and Denison Street Cemetery. If you have questions about this cemetery, please email me or my fellow researcher, Michelle Day. Michelle is in the process of indexing all of the city owned cemeteries. You can check out her website HERE. |
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| I could not list ALL of the "residents" of Highland Park.. This is just a list of some of the names I have found in my research. | |||||||
| Some famous people: | |||||||
| BURTON, Harold Hitz (1888-1964) of Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Boston, Mass., June 22, 1888. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1929; mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1931-32, 1935-40; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1941-45; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1944; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1945-58. Died in Washington, D.C., October 28, 1964. | |||||||
| CROSSER, Robert (1874-1957) of Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Scotland, June 7, 1874. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1911-12; delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1913-19, 1923-55 (at-large 1913-15, 21st District 1915-19, 1923-55). | |||||||
| AYLER, Albert b. July 13, 1936. d. November 25, 1970. Jazz saxophonist and occasional bagpiper. Pioneer in the field of free jazz. Committed suicide by jumping off New York City's Statue of Liberty ferry as it neared Liberty Island; body found floating in the East River, at the foot of Congress Street Pier. Cause of Death: Suicide by drowning. | |||||||
| EASTER, Luke b. 1915. d. 1979. Baseball player who played first base in the Negro League for Homestead Gray and in the major league for Cleveland Indians from 1949-1954. Easter is one of only five players to hit a home run into the centerfield bleachers in New York's Polo Grounds. He was murdered during a bank holdup in Euclid, Ohio. Easter was a Union Rep picking up the payroll. Specific Interment Location: Section 16, Lot 29. Cause of Death: murdered. | |||||||
| GRAY, Admiral Nelson d. June 24, 1862. Co-founder of the Cleveland plan Dealer newspaper. Specific Interment Location: Section 1, Plot 526, unmarked. | |||||||
| GRAY, Joseph William d. May 29, 1862. Co-founder of the Cleveland plan Dealer newspaper. Specific Interment Location: Section 1, Plot 525, unmarked. | |||||||