Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
| Ivy Hill Cemetery | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1867 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Type | private, non-sectarian |
| Owned by | Ivy Hill Cemetery Company |
| Website | http://www.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), 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
References
- ^ "Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Find A Grave Cemetery". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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