Cedar Hill Cemetery, also known as Green Hill Cemetery, is a historic cemetery and national historic district located at Suffolk, Virginia. The district encompasses four contributing structures, one contributing site, and three contributing objects in a city-owned, 25-acre, public cemetery dating to 1802. Grave markers within the cemetery date from the early 19th century to the present day. This cemetery is a representative example of public cemetery planning and funerary artwork found in southeast Virginia and Suffolk. The contributing structures include the Darden (1938), Hosier, Hill (1933) and Brewer-Godwin mausoleums and the contributing objects include the Confederate Monument (1889) and World War I Monument. and Accompanying four photos
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
Notable burials Thomas H. Barnes (1831–1913), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia Senate Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820–1862), Civil War Confederate Brigadier General William Henry Haywood Jr. (1801–1852), US Senator Richard Hines (1792–1851), US Congressman Charles Manly (1795–1871), North Carolina Governor Sion Hart Rogers (1825–1874), US Congressman Absalom Tatom (1742–1802), US Congressman Laurence S. Baker (1830-1907), Civil War Confederate Brigadier General
References
External links
City of Suffolk Cemetery Brochure