Famous People Who Died and Now Reside in Cedar Hill Cemetery

People are dying to get in there

Julia A. Keirns
Read or Die!
Published in
3 min readJun 15, 2024

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Cedar Hill Cemetery Entrance. Photo by author.

We are currently only 17 miles south of Hartford, Connecticut. The Cedar Hill Cemetery, located in Hartford, is popular for housing several famous gravesites and I wanted to take the time to drive through it.

Hepburn family gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Photo by author.

The most famous one is of American actress Katharine Hepburn. She was born in Hartford on May 12, 1907, and lived most of her life in Connecticut. She died on June 29, 2003, of cardiac arrest in Old Saybrook.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. — Wikipedia

The Hepburn family plot is beautifully set underneath trees and is easily seen from the road. All of the monuments I photographed were right…

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Julia A. Keirns
Read or Die!

Currently living in an RV full time and traveling across North America. The goal is simply to write about it. Editor of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and ROD.