page_title: Chester Rural Cemetery
hierarchical_section_title: Chester Rural Cemetery
caption_attribution_description: English: Civil War Soldier, sculpture by Milmore, Martin (1844-1883). Robert Wood &amp; Company, founder. Cast 1872. Dedicated Sept. 17, 1873. IN Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pennsylvania. Appears to be a copy or variation of standard civil war statue, see e.g. File:Interior of Milmore's studio, showing design of soldier's monument for the city of Roxbury, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views crop.jpg
context_page_description: Chester Rural Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery founded in March 1863 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Some of the first burials were Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate, who died at the government hospital located at the nearby building which became the Crozer Theological Seminary.
  The cemetery is landscaped and had a large lake that was drained in the 1950s. It covers 36 acres and contains the graves of 31,000 individuals. Two monuments in the cemetery have been documented by the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: The statue "Sorrow" by Samuel Murray atop the Alfred O. Deshong memorial, and the Civil War Memorial, by Martin Milmore.
  On April 13, 1917, 55 unidentified victims of the Eddystone Explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation were buried in a mass grave at the Chester Rural Cemetery. An estimated 12,000 people attended the funeral service.
context_section_description: Chester Rural Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery founded in March 1863 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Some of the first burials were Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate, who died at the government hospital located at the nearby building which became the Crozer Theological Seminary.
  The cemetery is landscaped and had a large lake that was drained in the 1950s.  It covers 36 acres and contains the graves of 31,000 individuals.  Two monuments in the cemetery have been documented by the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: The statue "Sorrow" by Samuel Murray atop the Alfred O. Deshong memorial, and the Civil War Memorial, by Martin Milmore.
  On April 13, 1917, 55 unidentified victims of the Eddystone Explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation were buried in a mass grave at the Chester Rural Cemetery.  An estimated 12,000 people attended the funeral service.
caption: Civil War Memorial by Martin Milmore
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