Odd Fellows Cemetery (Philadelphia)

Odd Fellows Cemetery was a cemetery at 24th and Diamond Streets in Philadelphia, established in 1849 and destroyed in the 1950s.[1]

The gatehouse was designed by architect Stephen Decatur Button.

It included the grave of author George Lippard[1] and Charles Kochersperger, who commanded a Union Army regiment in the Civil War Battle of the Wilderness, as well as U.S. Mint assistant engraver Peter Filatreu Cross.

In 1950, the cemetery property was acquired by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for construction of a housing project. The bodies interred there were moved to two other cemeteries owned by the Odd Fellows: Mount Peace Cemetery in Philadelphia and Lawnview Memorial Park in Rockledge, Pennsylvania.[1] The Lippard grave was moved to Lawnview in 1951.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thomas H. Keels (2003), Philadelphia graveyards and cemeteries, Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1229-X, ISBN 978-0-7385-1229-7. Pages 120-121.
  2. ↑ Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205. ISBN 0-19-503186-5

Coordinates: 39°59′13″N 75°10′22″W / 39.98694°N 75.17278°W / 39.98694; -75.17278

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