About Eden Memorial Cemetery
Eden Memorial Cemetery is a cemetery near Collingdale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 79 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 46 notable people buried here, including Marian Anderson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Hank Mobley. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1173992. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Zion Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Marvil Funeral Home in Darby, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Delaware County, and 169 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 110 listings in Delaware County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Collingdale. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Eden Memorial Cemetery
Among them: 7 writers, 6 musicians, 5 journalists, 4 artists, 4 business leaders, 3 baseball players, 2 Medal of Honor recipients, 2 physicians.
- Marian Anderson1897-1993African-American contralto
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825-1911American writer
- Hank Mobley1930-1986American saxophonist
- John Taylor1882-1908Track and field athlete, first African American to win an Olympic gold medal
- Jessie Redmon Fauset1882-1961American novelist
- James DePreist1936-2013American conductor
- Laura Wheeler Waring1887-1948African American painter
- Caroline Still Anderson1848-1919American physician, educator, and activist
- Sarah Mapps Douglass1806-1882American activist and artist
- William Still1821-1902American activist, abolitionist, historian, and businessman
- Charles Albert Tindley1851-1933American Methodist minister and gospel music composer
- Julian Abele1881-1950American architect
Show all 46 notable burials
- Elizabeth Greenfield1817-1876American singer
- George Henry White1852-1918American attorney and politician, North Carolina
- James Forten1766-1842American activist, businessman and abolitionist
- Octavius Catto1839-1871American activist
- Timothy Thomas Fortune1856-1928American writer, activist
- David Bustill Bowser1820-1900American artist
- Charles L. Blockson1933-2023Historian of African-American culture
- Elizabeth Stumm1848-1910American teacher, journalist
- George Tunnell1912-1975American singer
- Robert Penn1872-1912United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Aaron Anderson1811-1886United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Frank Coleman1912-2008American educator
- Harry McGilberry1950-2006American musician
- Nathaniel W. Depee1812-1868African American activist, abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad and co-founded the Colored American National Society
- Raphael Morgan1866-1922American missionary
- Richard R. Wright Jr.1878-1967American sociologist, social worker and minister
- William Whipper1804-1876African-American businessman and abolitionist
- Charlotte Vandine Forten1785-1884African-American abolitionist
- Christopher J. Perry1854-1921American newspaper editor
- Dan McClellan1878-1931American baseball player
- Ed Bolden1881-1950American baseball executive
- George Lincoln Blackwell1861-1926Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Hannah Archer Till1721-1826Personal cook for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War
- Joan Imogen Howard1851-1937American educator
- Vivian Burey Marshall1911-1955American civil rights activist
- William Abraham Creditt1864-1921American minister, educator, school founder
- Chris Roulhac Jr.1917-1997American sports coach, athletics administrator
- Georgianna Rumbley1852-1894American physician
- Marion Turner Stubbs1910-1994African American pianist and founder of Jack and Jill
- Stanlislaus Kostka Govern1854-1924American actor
- Tom Finley1903-1933American baseball player
- William Henry Dorsey1837-1920Historian, artist, bibliophile, scrapbooker, and collector of 19th-century African Americana
- J. J. Clinton1823-1881AME bishop
- William Carl Bolivar1844-1914Bibliophile, journalist, scrapbooker, and community historian
People whose Wikidata entry gives Eden Memorial 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.
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What Eden Memorial 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
- Mount Zion CemeteryCollingdale, PAChurch cemetery0.2 mi
- Darby Methodist Meeting CemeteryDarby, PAMethodist cemetery0.3 mi
- Darby Friends Burial GroundDarby, PAQuaker cemetery0.7 mi
- Mount Lebanon CemeteryCollingdale, PAJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Har Zion Cemetery1201 Macdade Boulevard, Collingdale, PAJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Mount Jacob Cemetery700 West Oak Lane, Glenolden, PAJewish cemetery1.0 mi
- Holy Cross CemeteryYeadon, PACatholic cemetery1.2 mi
- Saint Charles Borromeo CemeteryClifton Heights, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Mount Lawn CemeterySharon Hill, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Mount Lawn Cemetery -- South LawnSharon Hill, PACemetery1.7 mi
Funeral homes near Eden Memorial Cemetery
- Marvil Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Darby · (610) 583-2727
- Knoetgen Funeral Homes0.6 miFuneral home · Collingdale · (610) 583-4242
- All Faiths Funeral Services LLC0.8 miFuneral home · Darby · (610) 492-0104
- Serenity Funeral Home and Crematory0.9 miCremation provider · Darby · (484) 443-1121
- Edney Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Sharon Hill · (610) 586-8890
- Timestone Monument1.3 miMonument dealer · Clifton Heights · (215) 410-2352
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