About Charles Baber Cemetery
Charles Baber Cemetery is a cemetery near Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 0.8 mi northeast of Pottsville. The grounds sit at about 797 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 24 notable people buried here, including Jake Daubert, Charles N. Brumm and Christian Markle Straub. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2800550. The nearest other listed cemetery is United Presbyterian Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is James E Humphrey Funeral Home in Pottsville, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 228 cemeteries we list in Schuylkill County, and 125 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Pottsville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Charles Baber Cemetery
Among them: 5 US representatives, 2 artists, 2 baseball players, 2 business leaders, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 journalist, 1 World War I veteran.
- Jake Daubert1884-1924Major League Baseball first baseman
- Charles N. Brumm1838-1917Union Army officer
- Christian Markle Straub1804-1860American politician
- George F. Brumm1880-1934American politician
- Jack Quinn1883-1946American baseball player
- David Yuengling1808-1877American brewer
- Cyrus Maffet Palmer1887-1959American politician
- John Reber1858-1931American politician
- Francis Wade Hughes1817-1885American lawyer, politician
- Frederick Yuengling1848-1899American brewer
- Henry Pleasants1833-1880Union United States Army general
- William D. Hutchinson1932-1995United States federal judge
Show all 24 notable burials
- Charles A. Snyder1867-1931American politician
- Conrad Frederic Haeseler1875-1962American photographer
- Frank D. Yuengling1876-1963American brewer
- Richard H. Koch1852-1945American judge and railroad magnate
- Bard Wells1855-1893Mining engineer
- Elizabeth Dodson Beahm1898-1995Teacher
- Isaac Dodson Beahm1862-1934Business executive
- John Andrew Moore Passmore1836-1903American teacher, lawyer, and genealogist
- John J. Garvin1852-1937American photographer
- Louise Swartz Beahm Wells1893-1972Socialite
- Robert Barclay Beahm II1891-1932Agricultural engineer
- William Bard Wells1885-1954Mining engineer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Charles Baber 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
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What Charles Baber 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
- United Presbyterian CemeteryPottsville, PAPresbyterian cemetery0.4 mi
- Bethel AME CemeteryPottsville, PAMethodist cemetery0.4 mi
- Friends Burying GroundPottsville, PAQuaker cemetery0.4 mi
- Saint John the Baptist German Catholic CemeteryPottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.5 mi
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery No. 2Pottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.6 mi
- Saint John the Baptist CemeteryPottsville, PAChristian cemetery0.7 mi
- Trinity Episcopal Cemetery200 South 2nd Street, Pottsville, PAEpiscopal cemetery0.7 mi
- Saint Joseph's CemeteryPottsville, PAChristian cemetery0.8 mi
- Calvary CemeteryPottsville, PACemetery0.9 mi
- Saint Patrick's Calvary CemeteryPottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.9 mi
Funeral homes near Charles Baber Cemetery
- James E Humphrey Funeral Home0.2 miFuneral home · Pottsville · (570) 622-1403
- Lord-Bixler Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Pottsville
- Lord Ebling Haus Funeral Home & Crematory0.5 miCremation provider · Pottsville · (570) 622-0230
- Schlitzer Allen Pugh Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Pottsville · (570) 622-7888
- Robert A. Evans, Jr. Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Port Carbon
- James H Evans Funeral Home Inc2.6 miFuneral home · St Clair · (570) 429-0663
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
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