Civil War Veterans Buried In Washington State - Mount Vernon Cemetery

Also known as IOOF Cemetery

Mount Vernon Cemetery offers options for burial or entombment of your loved one.  We have a mausoleum that offers both crypts for casket entombment and niches for urn entombment. In the spring of 2018, we completed our wall of beautiful glass front niches in our mausoleum. We offer single, companion, and family size niches with glass nameplates. Our cemetery offers a designated Veterans’ Section for Veterans and their spouses. We also plan to add a columbarium for urn placement in the Veterans’ section. Our Fountain Urn Garden offers an elegant location for vaulted urn burial. Our cemetery has seven sections for the public to choose from for ground burial of a casket or urn.  
 
Mount Vernon Cemetery is an endowment care cemetery. Washington State requires that privately owned cemeteries deposit a portion of the sale of each cemetery lot in a permanent endowment care fund for future care of the cemetery. While the interest on these funds may be spent on care of the cemetery, the principal amount can never be spent.

Mount Vernon Mt Vernon Cemetery in Skagit County was founded in 1896. In 1915 the cemetery was handed to the City of Mount Vernon.

The Mount Vernon Mt Vernon Cemetery’s management was under the City of Mount Vernon until 1929 when Mount Vernon Mt Vernon Cemetery Association took over after its formation. The association took over the administration until 2005 when the cemetery land was deeded again back to the City of Mount Vernon.

The Mount Vernon Mt Vernon Cemetery has incorporated several graves from the local cemeteries. One of the notable relocations of graves is one done by Mount Vernon Catholic Cemetery in 1995. After relocation, they erected a memorial with a list of names of the deceased whose graves were moved.

Mount Vernon Mt Vernon Cemetery in Mount Vernon ranks number 1^st out of the two cemeteries in Mount Vernon City in terms of popularity. Further, it ranks 7^th out of 17 cemeteries in Skagit County, 40^th out of the 238 cemeteries in Washington State, and 2672 in the United States.