In it's early history Montgomery attracted many visitors due to the ease of access. It could be reached by residents of the Delaware Valley through various railroad and trolley lines. Many prominent families of the area found this the ideal spot for the final resting place of their loved ones. Eventually this became the resting place for over four thousand five hundred people, some of them nationally known, others familiar only to their own families and still others that rest peacefully in anonymous paupers graves. You can see the names of many streets in Norristown, Conshohocken and Bridgeport in the family names inscribed here.
Tombstones here reflect the religious aspect of the times as well as the closeness of family ties.
They tell of loved ones lives as well as their deaths. As well as all of the many enlisted and Militia men of the Civil War, there are four Civil War Generals laid here to rest. There is Samuel K. Zook who was mortally wounded on the second day at Gettysburg leading his brigade into the Wheatfield. He died the following day. There is Adam Slemmer who survived the Civil War only to die while in command of the army post at Fort Laramie, Wyoming in 1867.