Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)

Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery located at 1201 Easton Road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Chartered in 1867, it was originally call the "Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery." ^[1]

Notable burials

• William Law Anderson (1879-1910), professional golfer
• Boy in the Box (unknown-1957), unidentified murder victim
• George Potter Darrow (1859-1943), US congressman
• Mahlon Duckett (1922-2015), professional baseball player
• Charles Edgar Duryea (1861-1939), automotive engineer and inventor
• "Smokin' Joe" Frazier (1944-2011), professional boxer
• L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette (1827-1905), first women ever ordained a minister in Canada
• Franklin B. Gowen (1836-1889), businessman
• Bill Gray (1871-1932), professional baseball player
• Harold B. Hairston (1940-2016), Philadelphia fire commissioner
• Ed Lafitte (1886-1971), professional baseball player
• Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929), actress
• Thomas McIntosh (1921-2005), Philadelphia city councilman
• Harold Melvin (1939-1997), Soul singer
• Edwin Ward Moore (1810-1865), commodore of the Texas Navy
• Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954-2014), professional boxer
• Francis D. Pastorius (1920-1962), city treasurer
• Fayette Pinkney (1948-2009), Soul singer
• Joni Sledge (1956-2017), pop and Disco singer
• William Thompson Russell Smith (1812-1896), landscape painter
• Bill Tilden (1893-1953), professional tennis player
• Lauretha A. Vaird (1952-1996), Philadelphia police officer
• Louis Wagner (1838-1914), US Army general
• Marion Williams (1927-1994), Gospel singer

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