Location

Where is the Newport Cemetery located, what are the operating hours and how do I get there?

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Search our cemetery database for name and location of interred.

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History

The Newport Cemetery Association was organized in 1862 by thirty young men of Newport participating as stockholders.

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Welcome to Newport Cemetery

Welcome to the Newport Cemetery website. The Cemetery was organized in 1863 as a For Profit Corporation and later changed to a non-profit association on November 30, 1908. This non-profit corporation, known as the Newport Cemetery Association, continues to be managed by a nine (9) member Board of Directors, all unpaid volunteers. The earliest interments occurred at the time of the Civil War and we continue to serve the community's needs today.

The old cemetery in downtown Newport is also part of our local heritage. It contains graves dating from the early 1800’s through the latter part of the century, so both cemeteries were in use simultaneously for a while. We’ve used data from the Perry Historians to populate our database with as many of those graves as possible. Sadly, age has damaged many of the stones so the information as recorded is sometimes minimal and occasionally up for interpretation. Download the Original Source Document and Working Notes.

It is the Board's hope that this site and the database within will be a valuable resource for genealogical researchers as well as the community in general. A great deal of information has already been added to our database and more is continually being added and quality checked.

If you need any additional information, feel free to contact our Caretaker at 717-567-3429 for 'on-the-ground' questions

What’s New

New Photo Gallery

Take a look at our new Photo Gallery where you will find various photos of headstones, name plates, and landscape shots of the Newport Cemetery.

Old Cemetery

Newport Cemetery has recently been made aware that they control another older cemetery at the end of South 5th Street in Newport. The new grave data has been imported into the online grave database. Download the Original Source Document and Working Notes.

New Online Public Database

The Newport Cemetery has made their database available to the public to use for grave lookup’s and family research. Start SEARCHING today.