Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)

Ivy Hill Cemetery
Ivy Hill Cemetery
Details
Established	1867
Location	Cedarbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°04′26″N 75°10′47″W / 40.0738°N 75.1797°W
Type	private, non-sectarian
Owned by	Ivy Hill Cemetery Company
Website	ivyhillcemetery.org
Find a Grave	Ivy Hill Cemetery

Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery located at 1201 Easton Road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Chartered in 1867, it was originally call the "Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery." ^[1]

Notable burials

William Law Anderson (1879-1910), professional golfer
Boy in the Box (unknown-1957), unidentified murder victim
George Potter Darrow (1859-1943), US 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 women 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
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), US Army general
Marion Williams (1927-1994), Gospel singer