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Cedar Grove Cemetery, Burial Records
City of Norfolk, Virginia

GPS: 36.859222, -76.282731

238 E Princess Anne Rd
Norfolk, VA 23510

Published: March 7, 2020
Total records: 5,086

Cedar Grove Cemetery is owned by the City of Norfolk.

Cemetery History

While graves date back to 1806, Cedar Grove Cemetery was established as Norfolk’s first municipal cemetery in 1825 following the closure of St. Paul's churchyard and the enactment of an ordinance restricting the creation and/or use of private burial grounds within city limits.

Cedar Grove was designed in the Victorian park fashion with several large family vaults, popular from 1830-1870. These vaults are half above ground and half below ground and are usually an arched structure of masonry or concrete containing either shelves or enclosed spaces inside upon/in which to place coffins. Family vaults could hold up to 20 family members. Cedar Grove also has some unusual honeycomb tombs wherein a rectangular chamber is enclosed by an arc of outer walling so that the graves multiply outwards from the original single cell at the center.

Cedar Grove is also one of three known sites containing mass burials of Yellow Fever victims. Yellow Fever struck Norfolk in 1795, 1802, 1821 and 1855. At the height of the 1821 and 1855 epidemics, nearly 100 Norfolk citizens died on a daily basis. The bodies were loaded onto a wagon and brought to Cedar Grove Cemetery to be buried in their family lot or a mass grave.

Notable burials in Cedar Grove include many Civil War soldiers and Norfolk founding families. Tours are offered during warmer months (April-October) highlighting these features and a sampling of the notable burials.

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City of Norfolk Records

Records linked below were acquired from the City of Norfolk on March 4, 2020. These records come directly from the City's cemetery records database. We made no attempt to correct incorrect information. Our goal is to illustrate exactly what the source shows.

Dates of death in these records range from 1800 to 2020.

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Downloadable Files

• Cedar Grove Cemetery Plot Map, (327 KB)
• Cedar Grove Cemetery Aerial Photo, (168 KB)