CEMETERIES



Cemetery Locations - Names, addresses and GPS coordinates

Tombstone Symbols and Their Meanings

Arlington Cemetery (Partial), Drexel Hill, Delaware County, http://usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/cemeteries/arlington.txt

Baptist Burials - Chester county http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/cemetery/county_baptist_burials.htm

Beth Israel Cemetery, Wagontown - partial http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/bethisrael01.txt

Beula Bapatist Church http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/beulahbap.txt

Brownback's German Reform Church http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/brownbacks.txt

Brownback's German Reform Church - early burials http://www.brownback%20burials.htm

Coatsville Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/coatesville_twp_cemeteries.htm

Chestnut Grove Cemetery Annex - West Chester http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/cgroveannex.txt

Downingtown Borough Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/townships/downingtown_borough%20cemetery.htm

East Brandywine Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/east_brandywine_cemeteries.htm

East Nottingham Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/east_nottingham_cemeteries.htm

East Whiteland Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/east_whiteland_twp_cemeteries.htm

Elk Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/elk_twp_cemeteries.htm

Fairview Cemetry, Coatsville http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/fairview.txt

Fairview Presbyterian http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/fairviewp.txt

Fernwood Cemetery 
 6500 Baltimore Ave
Lansdowne, PA 19050-2750
"> 610-623-0333
(Just inside Delaware Co., near Philadelphia)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/cemeteries/fernwood.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/cemeteries/fernwood1.txt

Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian. Church http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/forks.txt

Franklin Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/franklin_cemeteries.htm

German Reformed Congregation of Vincent Township - early burials
http://www.pa-roots.com/church/german_reformed_congregation_of_.htm

Great Valley Baptist Cemetery - read in 1896 http://www.Great%20valley%20baptist%20cemetery_.htm

Great Valley Presbyterian Cemetery http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/greatvalley.txt

Greenmount Cemetery Association
117 Westtown Road
West Chester 19382

Grove Methodist Episcopal Cemetery http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8088/grove.html

Haym Salomon Memorial Park - Frazer http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/haymsalomon.txt

Hollingsworth Family Burial Ground - Relocation of Remains http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/cecil/cemeteries/hollingsworth.txt

Homeville Cemetery http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/homeville.txt

Honeybrook Presbyterian Cemetery(partial listing) http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/honeybrook.txt

Honeycomb Union AME - Lima http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/cemeteries/honeycombuame.txt

Hopewell United Methodist Cemetery http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/hopewellum.txt

Lewisville, Chester County, PA http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/lewisville.txt

London Britain Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/misc/london_britain_cemeteries.htm

Merion Meeting, Montgomery County http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/church/merionindx.txt

Middletown MM Burials http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/midtngrave.txt

Mt. Olivet Christian Church - 2 miles SW of Kimbleville in Franklin Township
http://www.pa-roots.com/church/mt_olivet_christian_church.htm
(church no longer standing)

New London Presbyterian Cemetery http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/newl0001.txt

New London Presbyterian Cemetery (addition) http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/newlondonp.txt

New London and Kembleville Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/new_london_and_kemblesville_ceme.htm

Old Eagle School, Tredyffrin Township - List of internments 1767-1895 http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/trdfrn.htm

Oxford Cemeteryhttp://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/oxford.txt

Parkesburg Borough Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/parkesburgh_borough_cemeteries.htm

Phoenixville Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/phoenixville_cemeteries.htm

Plainfield Lutheran Cemetery - West Pennsboro Township http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/cemeteries/plainfield-luth-tp.txt

Rolling Green Memorial Park - West Chester http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/rollinggreen.txt

Sadsbury Meeting Cemetery Burials http://www.sadsbury.html

St. Agnew - West Chester http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/stagnes.txt

St. Andrew's Burials http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/st-andrews.txt

St. Augustine's and St. Monica's Cemetery - partial reading, located on Rt. 202 on the border between Montgomery and Chester Counties
http://www.pa-roots.com/church/st%20Agustine%20and%20Monicas.htm

St. Denis' Cemetery, Havertown, partial reading only http://www.saint%20Denis'%20cemetery.htm

St. Mark's Episcopal Church - Honeybrook, transcribed by Dan Lindley http://www.stmarksepiscopal.html

St. Mary's - West Grove http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/stmaryswestgrove.txt

St. Monica's Cemetery - Berwyn, on Old Lancaster Avenue, just off Rts. 30 and 252 (a partial reading only)
http://www.pa-roots.com/church/st_monica%20cemetery.htm

St. Patrick's http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/stpatricks.txt

St. Peter's Great Valley Episcopal Church http://www.st_peter%20great%20valley%20%20Episcopal%20burials.htm

St. Peter's Lutheran Church - early burials http://www.pa-roots.com/church/St%20Peters%20%20Lutheran%20burials.htm

Schuylkill Friends Meeting Cemetery, reading by Alan Townsend http://www.schuykill_friends_meeting.htm

Shenkel United Church of Christ Cemetery, North Coventry http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/shenkelucc01.txt

Stone Graveyard Burials (1872), Lewisville, Chester County http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/lewisville.txt

Thunder Hill Cemetery, New London http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/thun0001.txt

Tredyffrin Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/tredyffrin_twp_cemeteries.htm

Upper Octoraro Presbyterian http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/uoctoraro.txt

Upper Uwchlan Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/upper_uwchlan_cemeteries.htm

Uwchlan Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/uwchlan_twp_cemeteries.htm

Wallace Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/wallace_twp_cemeteries.htm

West Brandywine Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/west_brandywine_cemeteries.htm

West Caln Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/west_caln%20cemeteries.htm

West Chester Borough Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/west_chester_borough_cemeteries.htm

West Goshen Township Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/west_goshen_twp_cemeteries.htm

West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Cemebery http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/md/cecil/nottingham.html

West Whiteland Cemeteries http://www.pa-roots.com/cemetery/west_whiteland_cemeteries.htm

WEST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP:
Grove Methodist Cemetery
490 W. Boot Road
West Chester, PA 19380
610-696-6337

note: this is in West Whiteland Township even though the post office is in West Chester.

Willistown Friends Burial Ground (Partial) - Stone Graveyard Burials 1872 http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/willistownfbg.txt

Zion Lutheran Church, Pikeland Township - some early burials http://www.pa-roots.com/church/zion_lutheran_church%20burials.htm

Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery - partial list of burials http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/zion.txt

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Gravestone photos in Northern Chester County (please email Eliz your request and she'll let you know if it's 'do-able')EHanebury@aol.com

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OTHER RESOURCES

Chester Cemetery Transcription project http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/pennsylvania/index_chester.html?sourceid=0021442955662367715p

National Cemetery and VA info http://www.cem.va.gov

Cemetery registry http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/index.html

Pennsylvania Obituary Links http://obit.obitlinkspage.com/pa.htm

Pennsylvania Obituary Search Engines http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/p-t.htm

Pennsylvania Cemetery SEARCH http://www.obitcentral.com/cemsearch/pa-cem.htm

Death Notices from the Philadelphia Public Ledger (26 Jan 1863) http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/obits/ppl01261863.txt

Death Notices from the Philadelphia Public Ledger (15 Feb 1885) http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/obits/ppl02151885.txt

Tri-county cemetery listings http://www.tchslibrary.com/local_cemeteries/index.htm

Northern Chester County Cemetery Transcripts http://www.rootsweb.com/~pachest3/



This page updated on April 15, 2009