Providence Friends Cemetery in Media, Pennsylvania
Also known as Providence Friends Meeting Cemetery
About Providence Friends Cemetery
Providence Friends Cemetery is a quaker cemetery near Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Graceanna Lewis. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sandy Bank Burial Ground, about 0.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Cavanagh Family Funeral Homes, Inc. & Private Crematory in Media, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Delaware County, and 158 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, Media. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Providence Friends Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist, 1 scientist, 1 writer.
- Graceanna Lewis1821-1912American ornithologist, naturalist, illustrator and abolitionist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Providence Friends 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
39.91872, -75.38075
What Providence Friends 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
- Sandy Bank Burial GroundMedia, PAQuaker cemetery0.5 mi
- Media CemeteryMedia, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Calvary CemeteryMedia, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Reformation Lutheran Church CemeteryMedia, PALutheran cemetery1.4 mi
- Unitarian Universalist Church Memory GardenMedia, PAChurch cemetery1.5 mi
- Old Union United Methodist CemeteryMedia, PAMethodist cemetery1.7 mi
- Middletown CemeteryMedia, PACemetery1.7 mi
- Springfield CemeteryMedia, PAMethodist cemetery1.7 mi
- Middletown Presbyterian Church CemeteryMedia, PAPresbyterian cemetery1.7 mi
- Elwyn CemeteryMedia, PACemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Providence Friends Cemetery
- Cavanagh Family Funeral Homes, Inc. & Private Crematory0.4 miCremation provider · Media · (610) 566-3400
- Catholic Burial Society0.4 miCremation provider · Media · (610) 890-3975
- Rigby Harting & Hagan Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral home · Media · (610) 439-9676
- Rigby J Nelson Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Media · (610) 566-4526
- Kovacs Lombardo Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Springfield · (610) 544-3222
- Minshall Shropshire-Bleyler Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Media · (610) 876-4213
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Frequently asked questions
Is Providence Friends Cemetery a Quaker cemetery?
Our records list a Quaker affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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