About Mount Moriah Cemetery
Mount Moriah Cemetery is a cemetery near Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 1.0 mi northwest of Yeadon. The grounds sit at about 30 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 73 notable people buried here, including Betsy Ross, John Russell Young and John Whitehead. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1181748. The nearest funeral home we know of is Clarence Johnson Jr. Funeral Home Inc. in Yeadon, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Delaware County, and 168 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, Yeadon. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery
Among them: 20 Medal of Honor recipients, 12 Civil War veterans, 7 baseball players, 7 writers, 5 actors, 3 artists, 3 journalists, 2 architects.
- Betsy Ross1752-1836American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
- John Russell Young1840-1899Librarian of Congress
- John Whitehead1948-2004American singer
- John McCullough1837-1885American actor
- Robert Heller1826-1878British magician
- Samuel Sloan1815-1884American architect
- William Barber1807-1879American artist
- Augustus Caesar Buell1847-1904American author
- William McCandless1834-1884Union Army officer
- Edmund Clowney1917-2005American theologian
- Edwin Adams1834-1877American actor
- Israel Wilson Durham1855-1909State Senator of Pennsylvania
Show all 73 notable burials
- John Augustus Stone1800-1834American writer
- Richard Risley Carlisle1814-1874American gymnast and acrobat
- Samuel Miles1740-1805American military officer and politician
- Thomas Kittera1789-1839American politician
- Bill Greenwood1857-1902Major League Baseball player
- Charles Baker1809-1891United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- George Connell1871-1955American politician
- George Ewell1850-1910Professional baseball player
- Henry Engard Gilroy1852-1907American baseball player
- James A. Stewart1838-1884United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Jocko Milligan1861-1923American baseball player
- John Murray Spear1804-1887American clergy
- Michael Owens1853-1890United States Marine
- Mickey Duffy1888-1931American mobster
- Pat Deasley1857-1943Canadian baseball player
- William Burns Smith1844-1917American politician
- Albert Beyer1859-1929United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- British actress
- Art Loudell1882-1961Major League Baseball pitcher
- Benjamin Loxley1720-1801Prominent Philadelphia master-builder and carpenter-architect
- Frederick Langenheim1809-1879German-American photographer and inventor
- Jesse Elliott1782-1845United States Navy officer
- John C. Grady1847-1916American lawyer and politician
- John Deasley1861-1910American baseball player
- John H. Dye1833-1906
- John Lafferty1842-1903United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Morgan John Rhys1760-1804Welsh Baptist minister
- Moses Orr1847-1897United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Samuel Broadbent, Jr.1810-1880American painter and photographer
- Sarah Elizabeth Morrison1839-1915American author
- Sylvester H. Martin1841-1927Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
- William Gustavus Fischer1835-1912American composer
- William Langenheim1807-1874German-American photographer
- William Thompson1812-1872American soldier, born 1812
- A. O. Granger1846-1914American industrialist and soldier
- Adolph W. Miller1841-1923German-American physician, pharmacist and botanist
- August P. Teytand1878-1956United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Daniel McBride Grahamborn 1817Free Will Baptist pastor, abolitionist, writer and inventor
- Francis A. Wilson1840-1888American Civil War participant
- George N. Galloway1841-1904Medal of Honor recipient
- George S. Knight1850-1892American actor
- James Haley1824-1880Medal of Honor recipient during the American Civil War
- James Martin1826-1918United States Marine Corps sergeant of the American Civil War, recipient of the Medal of Honor
- John Galloway1843-1904Medal of Honor recipient
- John Smith1826-1907Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War
- John Williams1828-1885Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War
- Joseph Killackey1879-1946United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- M. Laird Simons1843-1880American newspaper editor
- Margaret Hosmer1830-1897Novelist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1830
- Nicholas Lear1826-1902American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert E. Winslow1829-1893Union Army general
- Robert Jordan1826-1881
- Thomas H. Stockton1808-1868American methodist minister
- Thomas Lyons1838-1904United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Thompson S. Westcott1862-1933American physician
- Thompson Westcott1820-1888American journalist and historian
- William Harper Davis1877-1933American psychologist and neurologist
- William Williams1840-1893United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- James Gaston Barnwell1833-1919American librarian
- Julie de Marguerittes1814-1866
- Samuel Levis Gracey1835-1911Politician in Massachusetts, US
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Moriah 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
39.93349, -75.23817
What Mount Moriah 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 Moriah Cemetery Naval PlotYeadon, PACemetery0.1 mi
- Hebrew Mutual Burial GroundYeadon, PAJewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Owen and Palmer Burial GroundYeadon, PACemetery0.3 mi
- Graceland CemeteryYeadon, PACemetery0.6 mi
- Saint James CemeteryDarby, PAEpiscopal cemetery0.8 mi
- Fernwood CemeteryYeadon, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Holy Cross CemeteryYeadon, PACatholic cemetery1.0 mi
- Darby Friends Burial GroundDarby, PAQuaker cemetery1.6 mi
- Friends Southwestern Burial GroundMillbourne, PAQuaker cemetery1.8 mi
- Darby Methodist Meeting CemeteryDarby, PAMethodist cemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Moriah Cemetery
- Clarence Johnson Jr. Funeral Home Inc.0.7 miFuneral home · Yeadon · (610) 626-1100
- A M Williams Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 729-6300
- Stigale Memorial Homes Inc0.9 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 726-7022
- Willimas & Palmer Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 729-7229
- Francis Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 747-5200
- All Faiths Funeral Services LLC1.5 miFuneral home · Darby · (610) 492-0104
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Related guides
- How Are Cemetery Plots Organized?Sections, lots, rows and graves explained, plus how to read a cemetery map and a plot deed.
- How Deep Is a Grave?Where "six feet under" comes from, typical depths today, and what state rules actually require.
- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
- What Does a Headstone Cost?Flat markers, upright headstones and monuments, materials, engraving, installation fees and the cemetery's foundation charge.