Even though I live in Seattle, I would like to help start a “Friends of Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA” if one does not exist. I am a man of modest means, but am willing to donate $1,000 seed money to help get it started once I know the money will be wisely monitored and used by some structure set up. I would like to use Laurel Hill’s group as a model of how to do it. I have a cousin helping me from Arizona, but we need a local volunteer representative to be our person on the ground. Any volunteers out there? Feel free to contact me directly by the email address above. Because of time differences, I would like to have most exchanges by email. For the genealogists out there, my cousin and I are Nieweg descendants. The two headstones were for Nieweg and Kornbau. Dick Gates, b. 1937

My great-great-grandparents were buried at the German Lutheran Cemetery at approximately 31st and Lehigh, the last family member interred in 1905. I discovered from the records at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania that the family at one time had purchased and installed tombstones. Their graves were moved to Philadelphia Memorial Park, I believe in the 1920s. The family’s remains, 7 individuals, are buried at Philadelphia Memorial Park, Frazier, PA, in one grave designated by an approximately 6″ x 6″ numbered cement marker. Their tombstones apparently were discarded. Most probably a newspaper notice requested interested family members to remove bodies to another location and the notice missed.

I feel sad that their desire to secure a spot where their loved ones could rest close to one another in death was disregarded.

Leslie

Mount Vernon Cemetery
Ridge and Lehigh Avenue
Philadelphia
Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania USA
Postal Code: 19132
Phone: 215-229-6038

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Cemetery notes and/or description:
Arch Street Presbyterian Churchyard was closed in 1867 and over 2500 burials were removed to Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Unfortunately, the owner may not allow anyone in (see note below) despite the fact that it is a beautiful cemetery with many burials. Ivy McAllister was allowed in several years ago and created this album http://community.livejournal.com/victorian_grief/11195.html
She has not been allowed in since.

Mt. Vernon requires that you make an appointment at least 24 hours in advance in order to visit there. The phone number to call is 215-229-6038. They get back to you within 24 hours of your call, within business hours.