Thompson Memorial Cemetery, New Hope
Also known as:
Solebury Presbyterian Church Yard
Located in:
New Hope
Street address:
1680 Aquatong Road., New Hope, PA 18938
GPS location:
Latitude: 40.33530
Longitude: -74.94640
Longitude: -74.94640
Ownership
Thompson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Burial summary
Number of burials: 1300
First burial: 1811
Last burial: ongoing
First burial: 1811
Last burial: ongoing
Contact information:
Church Secretary
1680 Aquatong Road
New Hope, PA 18938
Phone: 215-862-2440
Email: cemetery@tmpc.org
Web address:
Original burial records:
Church office
Other references:
Burial transcriptions are ongoing at the church office by the Cemetery Committee in book form.
There is a partial gravestone transcription at usgwarchives.net.
Gravestone transcriptions are listed at pennsylvaniagravestones.org.
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. Solebury Township and New Hope cemetery records : Bucks County, Pennsylvania ... Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 2005. [73], [2], 4, 4, [3], 5, [1] p. ; 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu SOLEBURY. Book 39.
There is a partial gravestone transcription at usgwarchives.net.
Gravestone transcriptions are listed at pennsylvaniagravestones.org.
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. Solebury Township and New Hope cemetery records : Bucks County, Pennsylvania ... Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 2005. [73], [2], 4, 4, [3], 5, [1] p. ; 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu SOLEBURY. Book 39.
Comments
Donald Walker composer, arranger and orchestrator of American musical theater is buried here. He is know for orchestrating over 100 Broadway shows (the most ever) and an Academy Award nomination for "A Thousand Clowns". He is also one of the founders of the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope.
Thanks to volunteer Joan Ashmen for gathering information on this cemetery
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