The City of Greenville owns and maintains four cemeteries: Brown Hill & Cooper Field, Cherry Hill, Greenwood, and Homestead Memorial Gardens.

General cemetery services offered are the sale of grave spaces, crypts and niches; grave openings/closings; maintenance of the cemetery properties; issuance of cemetery permits for installation of markers, monuments, and other memorials; and maintenance and preservation of burial records. For more information, please call 252-329-4524. For cemetery ordinance, click here.

Citizens should contact local monument companies and funeral homes for the purchase or installation of memorials, vaults, and other products and services associated with burials. All cemetery fees and charges must be paid before use of interment spaces.

Locations of Cemeteries and Availability of Interment Spaces

Cemeteries are open from 8:00 a.m. until sunset. Due to unmarked and unrecorded graves throughout the cemeteries, burial records prior to October 1984 are not available. Section, lot, space alphabets and numbers used for locating gravesites are to be found on the curbing at the Brown Hill and Cooper Field and Greenwood cemeteries. In Homestead, the lot and space numbers are found on hubs.

Homestead Memorial Gardens

Homestead Memorial Gardens Cemetery has 30 acres of land for current use and future expansion. The cemetery was acquired by the City of Greenville on June 19, 2003.

Homestead Memorial Gardens is the only City-owned cemetery with spaces remaining for sale. Numerous single grave spaces are available for sale as well as niches, inside and outside crypts housed in the Main Mausoleum. The Hillside West Mausoleum has available outside crypts. Sixteen or less single grave spaces per lot are sectioned in nine gardens: Cross, Fountain, Gethsemane, Hillside West, Honor, Peace, St. Peters, Grace, and Trinity.  All grave spaces are sold as single graves. 

4251 E. 10th Street Extension
(N.C. Highway 33, Near Portertown Road, across from Pinewood Cemetery)

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Brown Hill & Cooper Field Cemetery

The City of Greenville acquired 19.09 acres for a cemetery “situated in the Greene Place, sometimes called Cooper Field” on October 10, 1939. Cooper Field is the oldest section of Brown Hill. There are no interment spaces available for sale at Brown Hill & Cooper Field Cemetery. 811 Howell Street (Across from South Greenville Recreation Center)

Cherry Hill Cemetery

Cherry Hill is the oldest of the city-owned cemeteries. The City acquired this five-acre cemetery in 1872. It is known for its many spires and tall columns. There are no interment spaces available for sale at Cherry Hill Cemetery. 401 West 2nd Street (Off of Pitt Street)

Greenwood Cemetery

The City acquired Greenwood Cemetery on November 8, 1924. One hundred and one acres were purchased at that time for a cemetery. There are no interment spaces available for sale at Greenwood Cemetery. 2801 East Fifth Street (Adjacent to St. Peter’s Catholic Church)

Required Forms

A plot purchase form is required to purchase a grave lot in a City of Greenville Cemetery. This form must be filled out by the purchaser and submitted to the City of Greenville Public Works Department at 1500 Beatty Street.

Two (2) forms are required to process an opening and closing in a City of Greenville Cemetery.  The cemetery service request form must be completed and submitted by the funeral home representative. The funeral home representative is also responsible to submit the Interment Directions completed by the person authorizing the use of a burial plot. Both forms need to be submitted to the City of Greenville Public Works Department at 1500 Beatty Street. 

Other rules and regulations may apply. Please call 252-329-4524 for questions or concerns.