Persons of note buried here are Pip Koehler, a baseball player, and Dorothy Olsen, who was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots which was established in World War II and LaVerne H. Bates, namesake of Bates Technical College.

Chaplin was an American writer, artist , and labor activist.

Chaplin became active in the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, or "Wobblies") and may be best known as the author of the labor anthem, “Solidarity Forever”.

The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force officer of World War II.

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