Mentor Cemetery is the city of Mentor, Ohio

Mentor Cemetery dates back to 1854. Today it covers about 60 acres, half of which is now developed.

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Mentor Cemetery's updated system of records now allows the public to search our cemetery records online. You can search by location or by name.

The cemetery dates back to 1854

In a 1954 interview with the Painesville Telegraph, longtime resident Jeannette Munson recalled her father telling her that when many of Mentor's first residents returned to visit their former New England homes, they noticed that the burial plots in the churchyard were somewhat neglected and overgrown with brush. Since the forward-thinking settlers did not want the same situation to occur in Mentor, they began to think about creating a cemetery that could be cared for.

And so, in 1854, the Cemetery Association was formed and purchased for four hundred dollars ten acres of land located on Jackson's section and lying on the road from Amasa Cobb's corner to David Hopkins' corner. Amasa Cobb, who died March 16, 1855, was the first to be buried there.

Prior to 1854, the burial ground was located on the lot given to the schools at Mentor Avenue and Center Street. In 1858 and 1859, William S. Kerr, treasurer of the village school board, was instructed to pay the residents for the plots they owned on this property. Plans were made to move the burials to the new Mentor Cemetery, allowing the school board to build a two-story brick school building on the site of the former burials.

Mentor Municipal Cemetery is located at 6881 Hopkins Road, Mentor, OH 44060.