About Chelten Hills Cemetery
Chelten Hills Cemetery is a cemetery near Wyndmoor, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 1.7 mi northwest of Wyndmoor. The grounds sit at about 308 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 14 notable people buried here, including Marc Blitzstein, Charles Conrad Schneider and Morris Jastrow, Jr.. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1171622. The nearest other listed cemetery is Philadelphia National Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Walter E Sabbath Jr Funeral Service in Philadelphia, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 94 cemeteries we list in Philadelphia County, and 205 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 94 listings in Philadelphia County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Wyndmoor. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Chelten Hills Cemetery
Among them: 3 inventors and engineers, 1 football player, 1 artist, 1 business leader, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 musician, 1 physician, 1 US representative.
- Marc Blitzstein1905-1964American composer, lyricist, and librettist
- Charles Conrad Schneider1843-1916United States civil engineer
- Morris Jastrow, Jr.1861-1921American orientalist and librarian
- Comfort A. Adams1868-1958American electrical engineer
- Milton Rosenau1869-1946American physician
- Fred C. Gartner1896-1972American politician
- Edward Robert Armstrong1877-1955American engineer, inventor
- Louise Birt Baynes1876-1958Photographer
- Samuel Simeon Fels1860-1950American businessman
- Will Wynn1949-2013American football player
- William R. D. Blackwood1838-1922Medal of Honor recipient
- Austin Montgomery Purves1854-1915American financier and art collector
Show all 14 notable burials
- Elizabeth C. Adams1874-1953? - 1953
- Louis W. Flaccus1878-1953
People whose Wikidata entry gives Chelten Hills 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
40.06514, -75.16412
What Chelten Hills 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
- Philadelphia National CemeteryElkins Park, PANational cemetery0.7 mi
- Northwood CemeteryElkins Park, PACemetery1.1 mi
- Ivy Hill CemeteryWyndmoor, PACemetery1.1 mi
- St. Michael's Evanelical Lutheran CemeteryWyndmoor, PALutheran cemetery1.4 mi
- Germantown Church of the Brethren CemeteryWyndmoor, PAChristian cemetery1.4 mi
- Korean United Church CemeteryElkins Park, PAChristian cemetery1.5 mi
- Shoemaker CemeteryElkins Park, PAQuaker cemetery1.6 mi
- Upper Burying Ground of GermantownWyndmoor, PACemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Paul's Episcopal ChurchyardElkins Park, PAEpiscopal cemetery1.7 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryWyndmoor, PACatholic cemetery1.8 mi
Funeral homes near Chelten Hills Cemetery
- Walter E Sabbath Jr Funeral Service0.5 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (855) 443-8221
- Ervina White Beauford Funeral Service0.8 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 927-4546
- Williams Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 224-4359
- Emmanuel Johnson Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 438-6747
- EWB Funeral Service Philadelphia Office1.3 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 927-4546
- Batchelor Brothers Funeral Services1.3 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 549-4700
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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