Rose Burying Ground
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Rose Burying Ground

West Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions 4050 Ludlow Street
    West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104 USA
    Coordinates: 39.95642, -75.20388
  • This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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The Rose Burying Ground was established on an extensive tract of land belonging to Peter Rose, a soldier of the Revolution, who purchased the tract from Mary Thomas on June 30, 1798. After the war, Peter Rose emigrated to Ohio and bequeathed the tract to his relatives and descendants to be used as a burying ground forever.


Closed to burials in the mid-nineteenth century, by the late 1890s it had become notable not just for being the last of the private burying grounds to survive in West Philadelphia, but because it become an eyesore to the neighborhood, overgrown with shrubs and essentially falling to ruin.


In September 1899, descendants of the Rose family living in West Philadelphia decided to do away with the burying ground at a meeting called for that purpose. A year and a half later, in March, 1901, heavy rains caused the thick, rubble stone wall surrounding the ground to collapse. Finally, in July 1904, using a city claim of $180 against the property for the laying of sewer pipe as leverage, it was sold at sheriff's sale to attorney J. C. Hinckley to provide a clear title, as an estimated 10,000 persons, descendants and relatives of Peter Rose, could claim some interest in it.


The bodies were removed to other cemeteries, and today a warehouse occupies the site.

The Rose Burying Ground was established on an extensive tract of land belonging to Peter Rose, a soldier of the Revolution, who purchased the tract from Mary Thomas on June 30, 1798. After the war, Peter Rose emigrated to Ohio and bequeathed the tract to his relatives and descendants to be used as a burying ground forever.


Closed to burials in the mid-nineteenth century, by the late 1890s it had become notable not just for being the last of the private burying grounds to survive in West Philadelphia, but because it become an eyesore to the neighborhood, overgrown with shrubs and essentially falling to ruin.


In September 1899, descendants of the Rose family living in West Philadelphia decided to do away with the burying ground at a meeting called for that purpose. A year and a half later, in March, 1901, heavy rains caused the thick, rubble stone wall surrounding the ground to collapse. Finally, in July 1904, using a city claim of $180 against the property for the laying of sewer pipe as leverage, it was sold at sheriff's sale to attorney J. C. Hinckley to provide a clear title, as an estimated 10,000 persons, descendants and relatives of Peter Rose, could claim some interest in it.


The bodies were removed to other cemeteries, and today a warehouse occupies the site.

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  • Added: 16 May 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2777943