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First Presbyterian Church of Phoenixville Churchyard

Also known as Phoenixville Presbyterian Church Graveyard

Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions 145 South Main Street, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania 19460, United States
    Coordinates: 40.13132, -75.51482
  • This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
  • No longer accepting burials
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The Presbyterians, having formed an organization in the Mennonite meeting house, in 1846, built a handsome church, on Main Street, south of Washington Avenue, which was dedicated September 30, 1850 as the First Presbyterian Church of Phoenixville. At that time, they laid out a graveyard around the church for the interment of their dead.

The graveyard was used through the mid-1860s, when the Phoenixville Borough Council outlawed burials within borough limits. In 1882, the church trustees gave notice "to all persons having friends or relatives buried in the First Presbyterian church-yard of Phœnixville, Pa., to have the same removed on or before the 1st day of October, 1882, as the congregation desires to erect a parsonage thereon." Families removed their dead elsewhere, with those unclaimed remains likely going to nearby Morris Cemetery.

The Presbyterians, having formed an organization in the Mennonite meeting house, in 1846, built a handsome church, on Main Street, south of Washington Avenue, which was dedicated September 30, 1850 as the First Presbyterian Church of Phoenixville. At that time, they laid out a graveyard around the church for the interment of their dead.

The graveyard was used through the mid-1860s, when the Phoenixville Borough Council outlawed burials within borough limits. In 1882, the church trustees gave notice "to all persons having friends or relatives buried in the First Presbyterian church-yard of Phœnixville, Pa., to have the same removed on or before the 1st day of October, 1882, as the congregation desires to erect a parsonage thereon." Families removed their dead elsewhere, with those unclaimed remains likely going to nearby Morris Cemetery.

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  • Added: 23 Sep 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2786462