Lafayette Cemetery
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USACoordinates: 39.93375, -75.15978 - This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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The interments in this cemetery were removed to Evergreen Memorial Park, Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Opened in 1838 , 47,000 souls rested in Lafayette Cemetery when it closed in the mid 1940ies. Hundreds were Civil War and Spanish American War soldiers who died in battle or died of disease. Thousands were stillborn babies, children and young men and women who cecum to consumption, yellow fever, flu and measles. There were prominent Philadelphia citizens and one account had a Civil War soldier who had been hung for desertion. And they are all missing and their graves cannot be found.
When it closed an agreement was made with the Cemetery Association the remains would all be moved to Evergreen Memorial Park in Bensalem, in new caskets with new bronze markers but what actually happen was some remains were dumped into an open trench at Evergreen, others left where they were buried and still others buried at Rosedale Memorial Park or King David Cemetery. No records were kept it would be impossible to ever know where an ancestor was actually buried.
The interments in this cemetery were removed to Evergreen Memorial Park, Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Opened in 1838 , 47,000 souls rested in Lafayette Cemetery when it closed in the mid 1940ies. Hundreds were Civil War and Spanish American War soldiers who died in battle or died of disease. Thousands were stillborn babies, children and young men and women who cecum to consumption, yellow fever, flu and measles. There were prominent Philadelphia citizens and one account had a Civil War soldier who had been hung for desertion. And they are all missing and their graves cannot be found.
When it closed an agreement was made with the Cemetery Association the remains would all be moved to Evergreen Memorial Park in Bensalem, in new caskets with new bronze markers but what actually happen was some remains were dumped into an open trench at Evergreen, others left where they were buried and still others buried at Rosedale Memorial Park or King David Cemetery. No records were kept it would be impossible to ever know where an ancestor was actually buried.
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- Added: 16 Feb 2003
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1909817
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