The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery. It covers 275 acres (111 ha). 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jamaica Plain, more commonly known as JP, is an historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Motto: Official website: www. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery Hunnewell family obelisk Bigelow Chapel Civil War memorial Founded in 1831 as Americas first garden cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. ...

Notable persons interred at Forest Hills

• Joseph Warren, American Patriot leader killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill
• William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and reformer
• Lucy Stone, suffragist
• Anne Sexton, poet
• E.E. Cummings, poet
• Eugene O'Neill, playwright

Joseph Warren Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741–June 17, 1775) was an American doctor and soldier, remembered for playing a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston and for his death as a volunteer private soldier while also serving as chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts government. ... William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805, - May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist and reformer. ... Lucy Stone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928–October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. ... Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962) was an American poet and writer. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. ...

See also

• List of United States cemeteries

// Arkansas Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas; California Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles; Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles; Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles; Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family...

External links

• Forest Hills Cemetery official site