Mount Hope Cemetery records indicate that fifteen of the burials in this new section were re-burials from the old Urbana cemetery. After all were moved to Mount Hope, the old Urbana cemetery was closed. With approximately 50 graves, the oldest stone dates from about 1881. Many bear the surname Livingston. Cemetery burials are all indexed.
None have funeral director.
The earliest known Jewish community in town dates possibly from 1860 and the cemetery from the late 1800's. Sig Livingston, one of the founders of the ADL, is buried there. The cemetery is active for the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist community. The suburban locale of the site is flat land and isolated. The cemetery is reached by turning directly off a public road.