Ivy_Hill_Cemetery_(Philadelphia) Knowpia

Ivy Hill Cemetery
Ivy Hill Cemetery
	Ivy Hill Cemetery gate and chapel
Details
Established	1867
Location	Cedarbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°04′32″N 75°10′51″W / 40.0754597°N 75.1807781°W
Type	private, non-sectarian
Owned by	Ivy Hill Cemetery Company
Size	80 acres
Website	ivyhillcemetery.org
Find a Grave	Ivy Hill Cemetery

Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery and crematorium^[1] located at 1201 Easton Road in the Cedarbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1867, it is 80 acres in size and was originally named the Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery. It was renamed Ivy Hill Cemetery in June 1871.^[2]

The gatehouse is a grand gothic archway and contains a farmhouse chapel.^[1]

One cremation unit was installed in 1985 and the number has been expanded to include six cremation units.^[3]

One of the notable monuments in the cemetery is of Melville H. Freas. He fought in the American Civil War as a member of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and commissioned a life-size statue of himself in his military uniform to adorn his grave.^[4]

Notable burials edit

H.W. Ambruster (1879–1961), Rutgers University football coach
William Law Anderson (1879–1910), professional golfer
Bill Byrd (1907–1991), professional baseball player
George Potter Darrow (1859–1943), U.S. congressman
Mahlon Duckett (1922–2015), professional baseball player
Charles Edgar Duryea (1861–1939), automotive engineer and inventor
"Smokin' Joe" Frazier (1944–2011), professional boxer
L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette (1827–1905), first woman ever ordained a minister in Canada
Franklin B. Gowen (1836–1889), businessman
Bill Gray (1871–1932), professional baseball player
Harold B. Hairston (1940–2016), Philadelphia fire commissioner
Ed Lafitte (1886–1971), professional baseball player
Margaret Lawrence (1889–1929), actress
Thomas McIntosh (1921–2005), Philadelphia city councilman
Harold Melvin (1939–1997), soul singer^[5]
Acel Moore (1940–2016), Philadelphia Inquirer editor
Edwin Ward Moore (1810–1865), commodore of the Texas Navy
Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954–2014), professional boxer
Francis D. Pastorius (1920–1962), Philadelphia City Treasurer
Fayette Pinkney (1948–2009), soul singer
Joni Sledge (1956–2017), pop and disco singer
William Thompson Russell Smith (1812–1896), landscape painter
Bill Tilden (1893–1953), professional tennis player
Lauretha A. Vaird (1952–1996), Philadelphia police officer
Louis Wagner (1838–1914), U.S. Army general
Marion Williams (1927–1994), gospel singer
Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953–1957), child murder victim known as the "boy in the box"

References edit

^ ^a ^b Newall, Mike. "Philadelphia cemetery struggles with coronavirus victims, a Philadelphia cemetery aims to preserve the dignity of the dead". www.inquirer.com. Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ Scharf, John Thomas; Wescott, Thompson (1884). History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884, Volume 3. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. p. 2361. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^ "Crematory". www.ivyhillcemetery.org. Ivy Hill Cemetery and Crematory. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ Keels, Thomas H. (2003). Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 073851229X. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (Third ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 509. ISBN 978-0786479924. Retrieved 5 July 2022.