Pennsylvania, Berks County, Reading, Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory Burial Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
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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.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
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What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
Permit book
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Burial Card
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- Name of ancestor
- Approximate death date
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- Pennsylvania Guided Research
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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
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