About Bedford Cemetery
Bedford Cemetery is a cemetery near Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 1,227 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including John Merriman Reynolds, Samuel Lyon Russell and Frank J. Washabaugh. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2776043. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Geisel-Styer Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc in Bedford, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 190 cemeteries we list in Bedford County, and 76 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Bedford. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Bedford Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 1 football player.
- John Merriman Reynolds1848-1933American politician
- Samuel Lyon Russell1816-1891American politician
- Frank J. Washabaugh1849-1902American politician
- Sol Metzger1880-1932American football player, coach of football and basketball, college athletics administrator, and sports journalist
- Isaac Heilprin1827-1900Optician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Bedford Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
40.02661, -78.50125
What Bedford Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Old Saint Thomas the Apostle CemeteryBedford, PAChristian cemetery0.7 mi
- German Reformed and Lutheran Church CemeteryBedford, PAChristian cemetery0.7 mi
- Old Presbyterian GraveyardBedford, PAChristian cemetery0.8 mi
- Saint Thomas the Apostle CemeteryBedford, PAChristian cemetery1.0 mi
- Mount Ross CemeteryBedford, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Bedford County Memorial ParkBedford, PAMemorial park2.0 mi
- Major John Cessna Burial SiteBedford, PACemetery2.9 mi
- Mount Smith CemeteryBedford, PAChristian cemetery3.1 mi
- Bedford County Home CemeteryBedford, PACemetery3.7 mi
- Saint James Lutheran CemeteryBedford, PALutheran cemetery3.9 mi
Funeral homes near Bedford Cemetery
- Geisel-Styer Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc0.5 miFuneral home · Bedford · (814) 623-5319
- Louis Geisel Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Bedford
- Timothy A Berkebile Funeral Home, Inc.0.8 miFuneral home · Bedford · (814) 623-6317
- Dalla Valle Funeral Services6.8 miFuneral home · Everett · (814) 652-2148
- Akers Funeral Home6.9 miFuneral home · Everett · (814) 652-6636
- Jack H Geisel Funeral Home Inc7.4 miFuneral home · Everett · (814) 652-9600
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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