NOTE: Someone removed this memorial to Lawnview Cemetery without confirming his remains actually were reinterred here. Confirmation is highly recommended; Lawnview charges a fee to look up burial records.
"If you drive through Lawnview Cemetery, there is a vast field with no grave markers. This is where the burials from Monument Cemetery and Odd Fellows Cemetery are. There are no monuments, headstones, or markers of any kind because most of them were dumped into the Delaware River.... " —Ed Snyder, "The Odd End to Philadelphia's Odd Fellows Cemetery," April 28, 2016
NOTE: Someone removed this memorial to Lawnview Cemetery without confirming his remains actually were reinterred here. Confirmation is highly recommended; Lawnview charges a fee to look up burial records.
"If you drive through Lawnview Cemetery, there is a vast field with no grave markers. This is where the burials from Monument Cemetery and Odd Fellows Cemetery are. There are no monuments, headstones, or markers of any kind because most of them were dumped into the Delaware River.... " —Ed Snyder, "The Odd End to Philadelphia's Odd Fellows Cemetery," April 28, 2016
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