Christ Church Burial Ground
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush, Francis Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes, and George Ross. Two additional signers of the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson and Robert Morris, are buried at Christ Church just a few blocks away.
Benjamin Franklin's gravesite in Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia
Benjamin Rush's grave
The grave of John Taylor (right), a long-time grave digger at the cemetery.
Edwin De Haven's headstone
Deborah Read Franklin was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Portrait of Read by Benjamin Wilson
Francis Folger Franklin
Sarah [Franklin] Bache
William Franklin