Cedar Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of

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. It was established by a company incorporated on March 25, 1850. The main gatehouse was built in 1869.

Notable interments

* Alexander Crawford (1842–1886),

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recipient. * William Walker Foulkrod (1846–1910), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. * Thomas Francis Miller (1863–1939), architect * George Quintus Shoch (1859–1937), major league baseball player. * John Paul Verree (1817–1889), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.

References

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External links

Cedar Hill Cemetery
at Find A Grave
Cedar Hill Cemetery
at Interment.net
Photograph (1893) of gatehouse
at

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Cemeteries established in the 1850s Cemeteries in Philadelphia 1850 establishments in Pennsylvania History of Philadelphia Frankford, Philadelphia