- Source: Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery and crematorium 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.
The gatehouse is a grand gothic archway and contains a farmhouse chapel.
One cremation unit was installed in 1985 and the number has been expanded to include six cremation units.
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.
Notable burials
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
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
External links
localcemeteries.net – Ivy Hill Cemetery
Official website
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ivy Hill Cemetery
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