A visit to the Ridgelawn Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Ridgelawn Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Ridgelawn Cemetery (FG ID #86566)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Ridgelawn Cemetery ...
The Ridgelawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Gary.
The cemetery is located in Lake County<2>.
Adjacent to the Ridgelawn Cemetery and just to the west is the Mount Mercy Cemetery. Also to the west is the Saint Mary's Russian Orthodox Church Cemetery.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Calumet Park Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Concordia Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Crown Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- The Crown Hill Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown Hill Cemetery
- Elmwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Evergreen Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Fern Oak Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- The Fern Oak Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Oak Cemetery
- Hess Memorial Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Hope Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- The Hope Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope Cemetery
- Memory Lane Memorial Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Merrillville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Oak Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Pleasant View Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Ross Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- The Ross Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Cemetery
- St. Johns Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- The St. Johns Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Johns Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- The St. Marys Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Marys Cemetery
- St. Michael Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- St. Michaels Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Tolleston Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- The Tolleston Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolleston Cemetery
- Waldheim Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- The Waldheim Cemetery is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldheim Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 26 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Ridgelawn Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Calumet City
- Duneland Village of Gary
- Duneland Village
- Duneland Village is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duneland Village
- Dyer
- East Chicago
- Gary
- Green Acres
- Griffith
- Hammond
- Hartsdale
- Hessville
- Highland
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Hobart
- Lake Station
- Lansing
- Lincoln Village
- Lincoln Village is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Village
- Liverpool
- Lottaville
- Lynwood
- Merrillville
- Munster
- New Chicago
- New Chicago is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Chicago
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,937 people
- New Elliott
- Ross
- Saint John
- Schererville
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Ridgelawn Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Lake County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Ridgelawn Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Gary
- Griffith
- Hammond
- Highland
- Hobart
- Lansing
- Merrillville
- Munster
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Ridgelawn Cemetery:
- Pages specific to Indiana:
- Pages specific to Lake County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Ridgelawn Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #86566
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #441995 (Ridgelawn Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #441995 was archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website. In the past, the GNIS record contained the following information:
- BGN Class: cemetery
- County: Lake
- Est. Elev: 193 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Highland
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Indiana's counties, including Lake, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ridgelawn Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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