A list of Cemeteries in Delaware County, with links to ones containing names

The information here was submitted by Genealogy Trails own: S. Williams

As information on each individual becomes available it will be linked to a separate page. I hope that any of you reading this will donate any information that you have to this database.

+ Headstones ordered by government, completed by Mr. Prince, Philadelphia, and placed in 1882

Newspaper articles about Cemetery

Resurrecting Old Bones
    The remainder of the bodies are being removed from the old Methodist buying ground on Edgmont Avenue, above St. Michael's Church, last week several graves were opened and the bodies removed. Yesterday six bodies were taken up and reburied at the Chester Rural Cemetery. Recently upon examining the remains in one of the coffins a large quantity of jewelry was discovered, among which was a solid gold head band that encricled(sic) the scull(sic) and a number of valuable gold rings upon the skeleton hands. The coffins were, in several instances in good and sound condition, while others fell apart while being removed from the graves. (June 30, 1877 Chester Daily Times, Chester Pennsylvania)

Chester Rural Cemetery
    This cemetery which is located in the immediate vicinity of Chester, is becoming quite a favorite resort on Sundays, and many persons who have relatives interred there, do not forget to strew their graves with flowers and evergreens, which has given that place quite an animated appearance. Especially around the lake, the scenery presented is really picturesque. We were surprised to see such a great change which a year had wrought. There are several monuments in the cemetery, and one has just been erected by Mr. J.E. Burke, of polished Kentucky marble, which is the handsomest we have seen for sometime. The graves are all in good condition, which reflect much credit on the manager, Mr. A.P. Garfield, who is willing at anytime to give whatever information persons desire. There are only four vaults in the cemetery, but from what information we can gather it will not be long before several more will be erected. The most desirable location for the erection of vaults is along the slope running parallel with the lake. Since the opening of the cemetery to December 30, 1876, 2380 persons have been interred. From December 30, 1876 to September 7, 1877, inclusive, 167 have been interred, making a total of 2547 interments. The number of interments have decreased this summer, and consequently deaths have been less prevalent in this city, which is probably owing to the mild summer through which we just passed. (September 10, 1877 Chester Daily Times, Chester Pennsylvania)

Blast Victims Are Buried
15,000 Mourn At Graveside in Chester Cemetery
Guards Hold Crowd Back
Fifty-two Unclaimed Victims of Eddystone Disastenr(sic) Laid in Great Trench as Throng Looks On.
Chester, Pa., April 14,-"Ashes to ashes-dust to dust-"
    Choking sobs contracted a thousand throats as the final, measured sentences were being said at the burial of Eddystone's unidentified dead.
Handfuls of earth thudded down on fifty-two caskets which lay in three tiers in a great trench opened in Chester Rural cemetery.
    A silk American flag covered each casket of the uppermost tier. On the flags were flowers, who fragrance rose as the falling earth bruised them.
    Eleven clergymen officiated at the memorable services. Six of them were Catholics. Other churches represented were the Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist.
    In the sorrowing throng assembled for the funeral of these unidentified of the 130 dead of Tuesday's horror at the Eddystone Ammunition corporation, occasional distressing cries of anguish went up.
    A mother, knowing that among those shattered bodies, so mercifully shielded from view, must be numbered that of an only daughter, sobbed in despair on the should of her grief-bowed husband.
    A wan-faced youth fell to his knees on the soggy turf. His girl wife lay in that raw trench, somewhere. A woman, stooping, encricled him with her arms, and herself burst into desperate weeping.
    At the cemetery were police and guards from ammunition plants in great number, to prevent confusion and possible disorder. Boy Scouts, awe obvious in their faces, slipped here and there through the crowds.
    A guard of honor was posted at the trench, the grave of these unnamed dead. The guards was composed of 175 men from the Eddystone Ammunition corporation, under Captain Hefferman, Captain Winebrenner, Captain Clearman and Lieutenant Edward Greble.
    During the night, to avoid depressing scenes on the streets, the unclaimed bodies had been taken to the cemetery and laid in the trench, which was thirty two feel long, twenty feet wide and thirty feet deep.
    Fifty of the polished oak caskets, enclosed in cedar boxes, which lay in the shadow of the country's colors, were numbered. but two were not. In these two were not bodies, but mere fragments-pitiful tokens of that terrific blast of shrapnel which accompanied Tuesday's explosion.
    Bells for miles around were tolling as Rev. Thomas Ryan, rector of the Catholic Church of St. Rose of Lima, Leiperville, opened the services, assisted by five Catholic priests. Father Ryan sprinkled holy water on the caskets, consecrating the community grave. he then said the Lord's Prayer. This ended the Catholic ceremony.
    Rev. C. Lee Gaul, pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, began the service for the Protestant clergy, reading two verses from the Scriptures. Rev. J.W. Hauser, of the Lutheran Church of Chester, read the nineteenth Psalm. Rev. Robert A. Latham, Third Presbyterian church, Chester, read the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians.
    The Apostles' Creed was recited by Rev. Francis F. Taitt, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Chester, and hundreds in the throng recited it with him. Rev. H.M.B. Dare, pastor of the North Chester Baptist church, read the committal service and pronounced the benediction. Previously he had conducted a service at the works of the Eddystone corporation.
    In all, there were thirty three clergymen at the services at the grave, which occupied twenty-five minutes, but only those named above took actual part in the ceremonies. (April 14, 1917 Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone Pennsylvania)