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Old Union Methodist Episcopal Church Burial Ground

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions Ninth and Noble Streets
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19123 USA
    Coordinates: 39.95960, -75.15336
  • This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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The Union Methodist Episcopal Church began as an off-shoot of Saint George's Methodist Episcopal Church in the early part of the 19th century and was located on Fourth Street, below Arch, in the former Whitefield Chapel.


On March 24, 1825, the church purchased a lot of ground at Ninth and Noble Streets, in the Spring Garden District, for use as a burying ground. When those streets were subsequently opened only a few years later, the bodies there had to be removed.


In view of the event, the church purchased a lot of ground between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, above Washington Avenue, on January 31, 1832, for use as a cemetery. The bodies at Spring Garden were subsequently removed there, in what would become known as the M. E. Union Cemetery, and subsequently from there to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Montgomery County.

The Union Methodist Episcopal Church began as an off-shoot of Saint George's Methodist Episcopal Church in the early part of the 19th century and was located on Fourth Street, below Arch, in the former Whitefield Chapel.


On March 24, 1825, the church purchased a lot of ground at Ninth and Noble Streets, in the Spring Garden District, for use as a burying ground. When those streets were subsequently opened only a few years later, the bodies there had to be removed.


In view of the event, the church purchased a lot of ground between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, above Washington Avenue, on January 31, 1832, for use as a cemetery. The bodies at Spring Garden were subsequently removed there, in what would become known as the M. E. Union Cemetery, and subsequently from there to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Montgomery County.

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  • Added: 3 May 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2777168