Pennsylvania, Berks County, Reading, Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory Burial Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Record Description
Record Type	Cemetery Index
Collection years	1747-2007
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Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory, Reading, Pennsylvania

What is in This Collection?

Burial records from the Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory in Reading, Pennsylvania. This collection includes permit books, burial cards, and diagram cards. Burial cards and diagram cards are an index to the permit books. Burial cards list the name of the deceased, lot owner, lot number, lot section, age at death (year, month, day). (On the cards where birth and death dates are indicated - this information supplied by the funeral director. The cemetery then determined from this information the year, month and day of the age of the deceased). Diagram cards list lot number and section along with a diagram of the lot and persons interred there on. Microfilm of the original records is located in the Charles Evens Cemetery and Crematory.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Permit book

• Name
• Age at date of death
• Location and owner of lot
• Date of interment
• Time and day of internment
• Cost of interment

Burial Card

• Name
• Age at date of death
• Location and owner of lot
• Day of internment

Collection Content

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  Burial permit book 1959

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  Burial card 1916

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• Approximate death date

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Other FamilySearch Collections

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FamilySearch Catalog

• Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory. Cemetery records, 1848-1979
• Wanda Gartner, et.al., comp. Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania veterans burials to 1944.
• Schuyler C. Brossman, comp. A list of veterans buried in the western part of Berks county, Pennsylvania.
• Raymone E. Kiebach. Cemeteries of Berks County with graves of U.S. war veterans.

FamilySearch Historical Records

• Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999
• Pennsylvania Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880
• Pennsylvania Obituaries, 1977-2010
• Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994
• Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971
• Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950

FamilySearch Digital Library

• Morton L. Montgomery, compiled, Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania : embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families 2 volume, Chicago, Illinois : J.H. Beers & Co., 1909

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