After moving to Bellingham almost a 10-years ago, this little slice of the Pacific Northwest has become my home away from home. I now consider it my hometown, even though I was born in Utah. It has become my part of paradise and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. As a genealogist, one of the first places I went to when I arrived was the local cemetery closest to me. In fact, it was my first picture taken here.
Cemeteries are important to me. They provide information for my research and profession and are my ‘happy place’. What genealogist wouldn’t want to spend all day in a cemetery?
In Whatcom County, there are over 45 known (or former) cemeteries. I’ve been to several of them, but not nearly all. There are many that are now on privately owned land that I may never see, but below are all the cemeteries that have ever been on Whatcom County land.
- Bayview Cemetery
- Bethany Lutheran Cemetery
- Beth Israel Cemetery
- Blaine Cemetery
- Blaine Masonic
- Buchanan Cemetery (a.k.a. Woodlawn Cemetery)
- Case Cemetery
- Central Cemetery
- Enterprise Cemetery
- Glacier Cemetery
- Goshen Cemetery (a.k.a. Sulkanon Cemetery)
- Greenacres Memorial Park
- Greenwood Cemetery
- Haynie Cemetery
- Hillsdale Cemetery
- Hopewell Cemetery (a.k.a. Licking Cemetery)
- Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
- Jobe Cemetery
- Kendall Cemetery
- King Mountain Cemetery
- Lakeside Cemetery (a.k.a Clearbrook Cemetery, Pangborn Lake Cemetery, and Van Buren Cemetery)
- Lummi Island Cemetery
- Lummi Tribal Cemetery
- Lynden Cemetery
- Lynden Jim Cemetery
- Maple Falls Cemetery
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
- Mt. Hope Cemetery (a.k.a Deming Cemetery)
- Monumenta Cemetery
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Nooksack Cemetery
- Nooksack Indian Cemetery
- Nooksack Tribal Cemeteries
- Old Maple Falls Cemetery (a.k.a. Cannon Cemetery)
- Perry Cemetery
- Point Roberts Cemetery
- Saxon Cemetery
- Semiahmoo Indian Cemetery
- ST. Anne’s Cemetery
- St. Joseph’s Catholic (a.k.a Clipper Cemetery)
- St. Peter’s Catholic Cemetery (a.k.a. Columbia Valley or Deming Catholic)
- Sumas Cemetery
- Ten Mile Cemetery
- Van Zandt Cemetery (a.ka. Grange Cemetery)
- Welcome Cemetery (a.k.a Kulshan Cemetery)
- Wickersham Cemetery
- Woodlawn Cemetery (a.k.a. Paradise Cemetery)
- Zion Lutheran
In future posts, I will be going more into more detail about the history of these cemeteries and information about them. Which ones would you like to see featured first?
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Lynden! It is one of the few cities in the world whose main entrance is between two cemeteries. Plus, all those Dutch…!
Great idea!
And oh my gosh, Midkiff? One of my best friends is a Midkiff. 😀