Hillcrest Cemetery

Hillcrest Cemetery is locally significant as the final resting place of men and women who made contributions to Cary’s social, economic, political, and religious growth, and development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Interred at the cemetery are fifteen former mayors, many leading local educators, and businessmen, including members of the Jones, Page, Templeton, and Guess families, and Cary High School principal Marcus Baxter Dry, Esther Ivey, Russell O. Heater, Alfred “Buck” Jones, and R. S. “Dad” Dunham.

The municipal cemetery is located south of downtown on 4.87 acres and is surrounded on all sides by wooded residential neighborhoods. The Town acquired most of the cemetery in several transactions during the 1960s and 1970s, making it the Town’s only municipal cemetery with over 2400 burial sites and 4.9 acres. It was designated as a Cary historic landmark in 2014.

A walking tour map is available online and when you first enter the cemetery. The map was produced by the Friends of the Page-Walker.