Newtown Friends Meeting Cemetery, Newtown

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Located in:
Newtown

Street address:
219 Court St., Newtown, PA 18940 P.O Box 224 Newtown PA 18940 for mail

GPS location:
Latitude: 40.2262238
Longitude: -74.936385

Ownership
Newtown Friends Meeting

Burial summary
Number of burials: 606
First burial: 1820
Last burial: ongoing

Contact information:
Sharon Hulihan & Wendy Kane
Burial Ground Liaisons
P.O. Box 224 Newtown Friends M
Newtown, PA 18940
Phone: 215-968-4004
Email: graveyard@newtownfriendmeeting.org

Web address:

Original burial records:
Sharon Hulihan and Wendy Kane

Other references:
The Newtown Historic Society has burial transcriptions for this cemetery.

This cemetery is on Findagrave.

The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Sundry tombstone inscriptions in Bucks County / copied and arranged by C. Arthur Smith... Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 1938. 206 p. ; 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu V. 18. Book 44

This cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (7/21/1977).


Comments
Edward Hicks was buried here in 1849. He was a Quaker Minister and America's formost folk artist. Newtown Historic Society transcription done by Sarajane Dalles. Michael Hutchinson Jenks U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1845. He also served in the PA State Legislature and as Mayor of Newtown PA.


Thanks to volunteer Phyllis Wolfson for gathering information on this cemetery



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