About Friends Burying Ground
Friends Burying Ground is a quaker cemetery near Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 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 126 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.
Map
40.67990, -76.20056
What Friends Burying Ground 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
- Saint John the Baptist German Catholic CemeteryPottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.1 mi
- United Presbyterian CemeteryPottsville, PAPresbyterian cemetery0.1 mi
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery No. 2Pottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.2 mi
- Trinity Episcopal Cemetery200 South 2nd Street, Pottsville, PAEpiscopal cemetery0.4 mi
- Bethel AME CemeteryPottsville, PAMethodist cemetery0.4 mi
- Charles Baber CemeteryPottsville, PACemetery0.4 mi
- Calvary CemeteryPottsville, PACemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Patrick's Calvary CemeteryPottsville, PACatholic cemetery0.6 mi
- Saint Joseph's CemeteryPottsville, PAChristian cemetery0.7 mi
- The Young Family Cemetery on Greenwood Hill626 Ridge Avenue, Pottsville, PAFamily cemetery0.9 mi
Funeral homes near Friends Burying Ground
- James E Humphrey Funeral Home0.2 miFuneral home · Pottsville · (570) 622-1403
- Schlitzer Allen Pugh Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Pottsville · (570) 622-7888
- Lord-Bixler Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Pottsville
- Lord Ebling Haus Funeral Home & Crematory0.8 miCremation provider · Pottsville · (570) 622-0230
- Robert A. Evans, Jr. Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Port Carbon
- James H Evans Funeral Home Inc2.5 miFuneral home · St Clair · (570) 429-0663
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Frequently asked questions
Is Friends Burying Ground 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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