About Mount Bethel Cemetery
Mount Bethel Cemetery is a cemetery near Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 348 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 4 notable people buried here, including Thomas Boude, Thomas Welsh and Hannah Slaymaker Evans. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1181643. The nearest other listed cemetery is Trinity Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Workman Funeral Homes in Columbia, about 0.1 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 165 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Lancaster County dates to 1873. 3 of the 608 listings in Lancaster County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Columbia. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Bethel Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 Mexican-American War veteran, 1 US representative.
- Thomas Boude1752-1822American politician
- Thomas Welsh1824-1863Union United States Army general
- Hannah Slaymaker Evans1801-1860American painter
- Robert S. Conklin1858-1942American forestry commissioner
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Bethel 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
40.03492, -76.49564
What Mount Bethel 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
- Trinity CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery0.5 mi
- Laurel Hill Memorial GardensColumbia, PAMemorial park0.6 mi
- Zion Hill CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery0.6 mi
- Moore CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Kinderhook Evangelical Congregational CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery1.1 mi
- Saint Peters Roman Catholic CemeteryColumbia, PACatholic cemetery1.1 mi
- Strickler CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Ironville Methodist Church CemeteryMountville, PAMethodist cemetery2.1 mi
- Sherk CemeteryColumbia, PACemetery2.3 mi
- Saint Joseph Convent Chapel CemeteryMountville, PAChurch cemetery2.3 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Bethel Cemetery
- Workman Funeral Homes0.1 miFuneral home · Columbia · (717) 684-6633
- Clyde W Kraft Funeral Home Inc0.2 miFuneral home · Columbia · (717) 684-2370
- Etzweiler Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Wrightsville · (717) 252-1313
- Workman Funeral Homes3.3 miFuneral home · Mountville · (717) 285-4513
- Smedley-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory3.6 miCremation provider · Marietta · (717) 426-3614
- Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc.5.2 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-5441
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