About Mount Lawn Cemetery
Mount Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Sharon Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 20 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 11 notable people buried here, including Bessie Smith, Tammi Terrell and Guy Rodgers. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1199199. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Lawn Cemetery -- South Lawn, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Edney Funeral Home in Sharon Hill, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Delaware County, and 159 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, Sharon Hill. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery
Among them: 2 baseball players, 2 musicians, 2 Spanish-American War veterans, 1 basketball player, 1 physician, 1 World War I veteran.
- Bessie Smith1894-1937American blues singer
- Tammi Terrell1945-1970American singer-songwriter
- Guy Rodgers1935-2001American basketball player
- Virginia M. Alexander1899-1949American physician
- Constance Enola Morgan1935-1996American baseball player
- Richard R. Wright1855-1947President of Georgia State Industrial College for Coloured Youth
- William Thomas Amiger1870-1929American college president, minister, educator
- Wilmer Harris1924-2004African-American baseball player
- Benjamin William Arnett, Jr.1865-1942American teacher, reverend and chaplain
- Daniel Minort Baxter1872-1939American religious author
- David H. Sims1886-1965Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Lawn 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 Mount Lawn 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
- Mount Lawn Cemetery -- South LawnSharon Hill, PACemetery0.3 mi
- Darby Methodist Meeting CemeteryDarby, PAMethodist cemetery1.2 mi
- Mount Zion CemeteryCollingdale, PAChurch cemetery1.2 mi
- Eden Memorial CemeteryCollingdale, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Har Zion Cemetery1201 Macdade Boulevard, Collingdale, PAJewish cemetery1.4 mi
- Darby Friends Burial GroundDarby, PAQuaker cemetery1.4 mi
- Mount Lebanon CemeteryCollingdale, PAJewish cemetery1.5 mi
- Saint James CemeteryDarby, PAEpiscopal cemetery1.7 mi
- Mount Jacob Cemetery700 West Oak Lane, Glenolden, PAJewish cemetery1.8 mi
- Holy Cross CemeteryYeadon, PACatholic cemetery1.8 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Lawn Cemetery
- Edney Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Sharon Hill · (610) 586-8890
- Serenity Funeral Home and Crematory1.1 miCremation provider · Darby · (484) 443-1121
- Knoetgen Funeral Homes1.1 miFuneral home · Collingdale · (610) 583-4242
- Marvil Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Darby · (610) 583-2727
- All Faiths Funeral Services LLC1.3 miFuneral home · Darby · (610) 492-0104
- Willimas & Palmer Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 729-7229
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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