Cemetery Information
Cemetery Fees
No burials on Sunday or township holidays.
All burial services must be completed within two hours.
Cemetery Plots:
Present Resident or Former 20 year resident: $800
Non-Residents: $1400
Deed transfers: $75
Columbarium Niches:
Center Row: $2000
Second & Fourth Rows: $1850
Top/Bottom Rows: $1650
Fees include bronze memorial plaque and engraving, free use of chapel for final service. Up to two sets of cremains are allowed for each niche.
Opening and Closing Fees:
NATURAL BURIALS ONLY – Add $1000 to the “opening and closing” fees listed below:
TRADITIONAL ADULT BURIAL
Monday – Friday 8-4 PM: $800
Saturday: $1050
YOUTH SIZE CASKETED REMAINS (72″ OR > CONT)
Monday – Friday 8 – 4 PM: $500
Saturday: $700
CREMATED REMAINS (Grave Plot or Columbarium)
Monday – Friday 8 – 4 PM: $500
Youth (age 17 and under): $375
Saturday: $700
At Township schedule: $400
DISINTERMENT
Base charge for full disinterment: $800
Base charge for cremation disinterment: $400
Per hour charge >4 hrs: $150
FOUNDATIONS (PER RUNNING INCH)
Per square inch, 32″ in depth: $.90
Minimum Charge: $150
CHAPEL FEES
For Columbarium Interments – No extra Charge
Granville Township Trustees require the use of an outer burial container for the burial of casketed remains and the use of a recoverable container for the burial of cremated remains.
Township Holidays
New Year Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day and following day and Christmas Day
Cemetery History
Maple Grove Cemetery
Maple Grove Cemetery was opened because the Old Colony Burying Ground located on the east side of south Main Street had reached capacity. There are about 2000 plots in Old Colony. Many of Maple Grove’s early monuments came from the DeBow Brother’s Marble Works. The first automobile funeral was in July 1913. The first power mowers were used in 1920.
The cemetery is open during daylight hours each day of the year.
Old Colony Burying Ground – “A Union Cemetery maintained by the Village of Granville and Granville Township”
The settlers of Granville marked the Burying Ground on the town plat before they left New England in 1805. Ground was broken for the first burial in the Spring of 1806, and by the mid-19th century there had been more than 2000 interments. Veterans of five different wars are buried in Old Colony.
In 1886, Granville historian Charles Webster Bryant copied all of the legible tombstone inscriptions, recording 928 epitaphs, and noted that many graves lacked monuments or were marked by simple field stones. New burials had largely ceased after Maple Grove Cemetery was opened.
Restoration of the Old Colony Burying Ground was initiated by the Granville Historical Society. Work began in the summer of 1992 under the supervision of the Old Colony Burying Ground Union Cemetery Board. Initial funds for restoration of the gravestones were granted by the Board of Granville Township Trustees from its Opera House settlement fund. The Village of Granville provides maintenance of the grounds. The Granville Rotary Club constructed the storage building. The Granville Kiwanis Club provided work tools. The Granville Foundation provided funding for landscaping of the Grounds. Felumlee Monument Company has provided equipment and expertise. Restoration work is being performed by volunteers with guidance from professional cemetery restorationists and continues to this day.
Philipps Cemetery
Philipps Cemetery is a 2-acre cemetery located in the Welsh Hills in the northeast quadrant of Granville Township on the west side of Philipps Road. The land for this cemetery was given by Samuel J. Philipps and the first burial was the child of Simon James. Approximately 130 internments have taken place in Philipps Cemetery. The Cemetery is no longer taking new burials.
Welsh Hills Cemetery
Welsh Hills Cemetery is operated by a private cemetery association. It is located in Granville Township along Welsh Hills Road.
Burial Information
Visit the Granville Historical Society’s website about burial information for Granville Township cemeteries. Access the Book of Known Burials here.