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Fifth Baptist Church Burial Ground

Also known as Sansom Street Baptist Church Burial Ground

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Get directions George Street (aka Sansom Street) West of 11th Street.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 United States

Coordinates: 39.94942, -75.15982
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Church organized in 1811 as Sansom Street Baptist and reorganized in 1824 as Fifth Baptist Church. Burial ground was purchased in 1825. Remains moved to Laurel Hill Cemetery in 1854 and the grounds were sold.

Public Ledger 19 April 1852 pg 2 "For sometime past, the bodies formerly interred in the burial grounds of the Sansom Street Baptist Church , George Street below Twelfth, have been in progress of removal to a vault at Laurel Hill Cemetery, prepared for their reception by the congregation. There has been much complaint of the course persuit in the removal by the friends of some of the deceased who were not notified of the intention. The grounds in question to be sold for building lots. "

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