About Mount Joy Cemetery
Mount Joy Cemetery is a cemetery near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 0.8 mi south of Mount Joy. The grounds sit at about 446 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 2 notable people buried here, including Mary E. Hoffer and William F. Tyndall. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1181728. The nearest other listed cemetery is Camp Hill Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Buch Funeral Home, Inc. in Mount Joy, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 183 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, Mount Joy. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Joy Cemetery
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
- William F. Tyndall1935-2002American mathematics professor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Joy 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
40.12045, -76.50811
What Mount Joy 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
- Camp Hill CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery0.3 mi
- Eberle CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery0.9 mi
- Horst CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Mount Pleasant Brethren In Christ CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery1.2 mi
- Cross Roads CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Sherer - Eichelberger Burial GroundMount Joy, PACemetery1.5 mi
- Eby United Brethren CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery2.1 mi
- Kraybill Mennonite CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.4 mi
- Rheems Mennonite CemeteryRheems, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.6 mi
- Pleasant View CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Joy Cemetery
- Buch Funeral Home, Inc.0.7 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-4371
- Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc.0.8 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-5441
- Smedley-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory5.1 miCremation provider · Marietta · (717) 426-3614
- Clyde W. Kraft Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · East Hempfield Twp · (717) 898-2240
- Boyer Funeral Home Ltd5.5 miFuneral home · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1380
- Miller-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory5.7 miCremation provider · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1543
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