The Woodlands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also known as Woodlands Cemetery
About The Woodlands
The Woodlands is a cemetery in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Wikidata records 188 notable people buried here, including Thomas Eakins, Rembrandt Peale and Charles Godfrey Leland. The nearest other listed cemetery is Congregation Mikveh Israel Beth El Emeth Cemetery, about 1.8 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Philadelphia Cremations in Philadelphia, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 94 cemeteries we list in Philadelphia County, and 175 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 94 listings in Philadelphia County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at The Woodlands
Among them: 26 writers, 20 artists, 14 physicians, 10 Civil War veterans, 10 scientists, 9 business leaders, 7 US representatives, 6 journalists.
- Thomas Eakins1844-1916American painter
- Rembrandt Peale1778-1860American painter
- Charles Godfrey Leland1824-1903American folklorist
- Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden1829-1887U.S geologist and surgeon
- William Christian Bullitt, Jr.1891-1967American diplomat
- Jessie Willcox Smith1863-1935American illustrator
- Anthony Joseph Drexel1826-1893American businessman
- Britton Chance1913-2010American biochemist and Olympic sailor
- Silas Weir Mitchell1829-1914American physician
- Frank R. Stockton1834-1902American writer
- James B. Longacre1794-1869American engraver
- Susan Macdowell Eakins1851-1938American photographer
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- Benjamin H. Brewster1816-1888American politician
- Edward Coles1786-18682nd governor of Illinois
- William Rush1756-1833U.S. neoclassical sculptor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Anna Claypoole Peale1791-1878Painter from the United States
- David Porter1780-1843Officer in the United States Navy
- Paul Philippe Cret1876-1945French-American architect and industrial designer
- William Williams Keen1837-1932First U.S. brain surgeon
- Craig Biddle1879-1947US tennis player and socialite
- David B. Birney1825-1864Union Army General
- Langdon Elwyn Mitchell1862-1935American playwright
- Samuel David Gross1805-1884American surgeon
- Thomas W. Evans1823-1897American dentist
- Charles Jared Ingersoll1782-1862American politician and writer
- Henry Christopher McCook1837-1911Union Army chaplain
- Horatio Curtis Wood Jr.1841-1920American physician and naturalist
- Jacob Mendes Da Costa1833-1900American physician
- John Scott1824-1896American lawyer and Republican party politician, Pennsylvania
- Amelia Smith Calvert1876-1965American botanist
- Anne Hampton Brewster1818-1892American writer
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.1874-1948American philanthropist
- Elliott Cresson1796-1854American philanthropist
- James Thompson1806-1874Politician and jurist from Pennsylvania
- John Conrad Otto1774-1844American physician
- John Joseph Abercrombie1798-1877Union Army general
- Lewis Redner1831-1908American musician, composer
- Samuel Moore1774-1861American politician
- Thomas A. Scott1823-1881American railroad executive and businessperson
- Timothy Shay Arthur1809-1885American novelist, short story writer and publisher
- Charles Stewart1778-1869Officer in the United States Navy, born 1778
- Francis Anthony Drexel1824-1885American banker
- Francis Martin Drexel1792-1863American banker and painter
- Ida Waugh1846-1919American illustrator
- John Redman Coxe1773-1864American botanist and physician
- Joseph William Drexel1833-1888American banker
- Lydia Longacre1870-1951American painter
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr.1864-1934American businessman
- Chapman Freeman1832-1904American politician
- Emily Drayton Taylor1860-1952American painter
- George Thomas Morgan1845-1925American artist
- Henry Horn1786-1862American politician
- James Hepburn Campbell1820-1895American politician
- John Marston1795-1885American Commodore
- Sydney George Fisher1856-1927American lawyer and historian
- William D. Porter1808-1864United States Navy officer
- Alan Wood, Jr.1834-1902American politician
- Eli Kirk Price1797-1884American politician
- Eliza Edmunds Hewitt1851-1920American writer
- George Boardman1828-1903American theologian
- J. William White1850-1916American surgeon
- James Robert Madison Mullany1818-1887United States Navy admiral
- Jane Piper1916-1991American painter
- John Fraser1825-1906American architect born in Scotland in 1825
- Juliet H. Lewis Campbell1823-1898American poet, novelist
- Marcus Aurelius Root1808-1888American photographer
- Peter F. Rothermel1812-1895American painter
- Sidney George Fisher1809-1871Philadelphia gentleman, lawyer, farmer, plantation owner, political essayist and occasional poet
- T. S. Sullivant1854-1926American cartoonist
- Wilson Eyre1858-1944American architect, teacher and writer
- Alice Fisher1839-1888American nurse
- Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst1876-1932American surgeon
- Bella Zilfa Spencer1840-18671840-1867
- Clement Finley1797-1879United States general
- Ellis Lewis1798-1871American judge
- Emma Churchman Hewitt1850-1921American writer, journalist
- Fred Warner1855-1886Major League Baseball player
- Frederick Fraley1804-1901American politician
- Hartman Bache1798-1872American engineer
- Henry Grier Bryant1859-1932American explorer and writer
- John Seely Hart1810-1877American writer
- Mary Townsend1814-1851American entomologist and author
- Phoebe Davis Natt1848-1899American artist
- Samuel B. Wylie1773-1852Pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia from 1802 until his death in 1852
- Sylvester Bonnaffon, Jr.1844-1922United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas Cripps1840-1906United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas Messinger Drown1842-1904American university president, analytical chemist, metallurgist
- Anna S. Rickey1827-1858American poet 1827-1858
- Carson Van Osten1946-2015American comics creator and musician, bass guitarist
- Edward Rothesay Miller1843-1915American missionary
- Edward T. Stotesbury1849-1938American banker
- Edward W. Heston1745-1824American politician
- Ezra Townsend Cresson, Jr.1876-1948American entomologist
- John B. Gest1823-1907American banker and lawyer
- John Edgar Thomson1808-1874American businessman
- John Henry Brown1818-1891American artist (b.1818)
- Mark Harvey Liddell1866-1936Indiana writer
- P. Frederick Rothermel1850-1929American lawyer
- Samuel Honeyman Kneass1806-1858American civil engineer and architect
- Samuel Jackson1787-1872American physician 1787-1872
- Samuel Morse Felton, Jr.1853-1930American railroad executive
- Samuel Morse Felton, Sr.1809-1889American railroad executive
- Thomas George Morton1835-1903American surgeon
- A. S. Valentine1871-1921American football player
- Asa Whitney1791-1874United States manufacturer, inventor, railroad executive and politician
- Charles Barstow Wright1822-1898American financier
- Charles Lombaert1790-1875American contracting engineer
- Constant Guilloû1812-1872American photographer
- David B. Birney, IV1929-2004Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho
- David Jayne1799-1866American pharmacist and businessman
- Edmund Jennings Lee1853-1922American physician and author
- Eli Kirk Price II1860-1933Philadelphia art patron
- Frederic Drew Bond1876-1951Financial and scientific writer and consultant
- Hannah Webster Baldwin1784-1866American botanist and entomologist
- Henry Carleton1785-1863American judge 1785-1863
- Horace H. F. Jayne1898-1975American art historian
- J. Madison Taylor1855-1931U.S. physician
- John McAllister1753-1830
- John McAllister Jr.1786-18771786-1877
- John Quincy Lane1831-1903
- John S. Wentz1838-1918American industrialist and surgeon
- John Wiley Faires1813-1901American educator
- Joseph A. Campbell1817-1900American businessman
- Lawrence Johnson1801-1860American typographer
- Margaret Kuhl Kelly1867-1940American writer
- Napoleon Augustus Jennings1856-1918American journalist and Texas Ranger
- Richard Peters1848-1921American civil engineer and railroad executive
- Robert Bridges1806-1882American physician, pharmacist and botanist
- Robert Eglesfeld Griffith1798-1850American physician, botanist, and educator
- Rufus Welchborn 1800American circus owner
- Stephen Winchester Dana1840-1910Clergyman
- Theodore George Wormley1826-1897American toxicologist and legal physician
- W. Barklie Henry1867-1930
- Washington Lemuel Atlee1808-1878American gynecologist
- Wharton Sinkler1845-1910American neurologist
- William Bucknell1811-1890American businessman
- William G. Moorhead1811-1895American private banker and industrialist
- William H. Macomb1818-1872United States Navy officer
- William Tilldied 1766American judge
- Adoniram Judson Rowland1840-1920American clergyman
- Agnes Young McAllister1817-1879
- Alan Wood1800-1881Iron manufacturer
- Anne Dilke Riddle1839-1901Wife of American railroad executive Thomas A. Scott
- Arthur Joseph Stansbury1781-1865American artist, 1781-1865
- B. B. Comegys1819-1900American banker
- Caroline Drexel1837-1911
- Charles M. Cresson1828-1893American chemist and photographer
- Cordelia Rundell Bradley1873-1947
- Edith Bucknell1880-1944
- Edward C. Knight1813-1892American merchant
- Edwin Augustus Atlee1776-1852
- Eliza Melville Young1790-1853
- Eliza Young McAllister1845-1932
- Elizabeth Matthews Jayne1864-1955
- Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Jr.1900-1929
- Frances Drexel Munn1917-2012(14 Feb 1917 - 29 Apr 2012)
- Frances Wardale1746-1814
- George Burnham1817-1912American engineer
- George E. Edkins1883-1966
- Hannah Fort Jayne1827-1904Millionaire heiress
- Harry S. Henry1856-1909American art collector and businessman
- Henry Hale Graham Sharpless1823-1870
- Henry Kuhl Kelly, Sr.1835-192624 Mar 1835 - 8 Mar 1926
- Henry LaBarre Jayne1857-1920
- Henry Martyn Dechert1832-1918American lawyer
- Howard Bucknell1874-1962
- J. Forsyth Meigs1818-1882Physician
- James Patterson Scott1848-1914
- John Ashhurst III1865-1932
- John Ely1816-1869American Civil War general
- John G. Watmough1837-1913
- John King Findlay1803-1885Findlay, John King; class of 1824
- John Wheeler Ashhurst1810-1892(1809‑1892)
- Lizzie De Armond1847-1936American writer
- Marion Sharpless1860-1934
- Mary Ann Ridings1837-1909
- Mary Howard Sturgis1872-1941
- Mary Johanna Drexel1821-1873
- Mary Miller Jackson Henry1789-1876Wife of Bernard Henry
- Max de Schauensee1899-1982American music critic
- Robert Glendinning1838-1893Millionaire
- Robert Sturgis1859-1900American lawyer (1859-1900), Millionaire
- Samuel Etting1796-1862
- Sarah Allister McAllister Grant1819-1870
- Sarah Cox Coxe1779-1843
- Thomas Kittera Van Dykedied 1918Lawyer in Harrisburg, Pa.
- Thomas Potter1819-1878Millionaire
- Walter Jackson Freeman1860-1920American physician
People whose Wikidata entry gives The Woodlands 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
39.94716, -75.20253
What The Woodlands 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
- Congregation Mikveh Israel Beth El Emeth CemeteryMillbourne, PAJewish cemetery1.8 mi
- Old Cathedral CemeteryMillbourne, PACatholic cemetery1.9 mi
- Mount Moriah Cemetery Naval PlotYeadon, PACemetery2.1 mi
- Mount Moriah CemeteryYeadon, PACemetery2.1 mi
- Owen and Palmer Burial GroundYeadon, PACemetery2.1 mi
- Trinity Lutheran CemeteryPhiladelphia, PALutheran cemetery2.2 mi
- Trinity CemeteryPhiladelphia, PACemetery2.2 mi
- Mikveh Israel Federal Street CemeteryPhiladelphia, PAJewish cemetery2.3 mi
- Hebrew Mutual Burial GroundYeadon, PAJewish cemetery2.3 mi
- Graceland CemeteryYeadon, PACemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near The Woodlands
- Philadelphia Cremations1.0 miCremation provider · Philadelphia · (215) 986-2184
- Logan Funeral Home, Inc.1.0 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 545-4574
- James L Morse Funeral Home Inc1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 382-4322
- May Funeral Home Philadephia1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (856) 335-1461
- Terry Funeral Home, Inc.1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 222-2828
- Ferry Funeral Home, Inc1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia
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Frequently asked questions
Where is The Woodlands located?
The Woodlands is at 4000 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104 in Philadelphia County. GPS coordinates: 39.94716, -75.20253.
What are the visiting hours of The Woodlands?
The recorded hours are: sunrise-sunset. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery.
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