• Source: Cedar Grove Cemetery (Portsmouth, Virginia)

Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic public cemetery located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1832. The cemetery contains more than 400 graves with monuments dating from the late 1700s to the present. Its memorial markers include small tablets, ledger
stones, obelisks, columnar monuments and mausoleums. They include notable examples of Greek Revival, Late Victorian, and Exotic Revival funerary art.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.




Notable burials and monuments



Charles E. Cassell (1838–1916) – Architect and a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
James Chisholm (1815–1855) – Episcopal priest who died helping the community through an epidemic of yellow fever, leaving behind a historic draft memoir
James W. Cooke (1812–1869) – Naval officer in the U.S. Navy and the Confederate Navy, overseer of the construction of the ironclad ram CSS Albemarle
Archibald C. Godwin (1831–1864) – Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army who died at the Third Battle of Winchester (monument only, buried at Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia)
George Marshall - U.S. Navy Master Gunner fought in War of 1812 and wrote Marshall's Practical Marine Gunnery
William H. Murdaugh – Passed Midshipman, acting master and first officer of the First Grinnell Expedition to investigate the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition
Charles Francis Nash (died 1942) – a Leading Aircraftman for the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II (the only Commonwealth war grave at the site).
George Pickett (1825–1875) – Major general in the Confederate States Army who led the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg (later disinterred and reburied at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia).
Grace Phillips Pollard (1873–1932) – wife of Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard
John L. Porter (1813–1893) – civilian employee of the U.S. Navy and the Confederate Navy, designer of the ironclad warship, the CSS Virginia




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External links


Media related to Cedar Grove Cemetery (Portsmouth, Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons

Cedar Grove Cemetery at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cedar Grove Cemetery

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• Cedar Grove Cemetery (Portsmouth, Virginia)
• Cedar Grove Cemetery
• Charles Nash
• John L. Porter
• Portsmouth, Virginia
• Confederate Monument (Portsmouth, Virginia)
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• Charles E. Cassell
• James W. Cooke
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