Welcome to the "Historic" Green Cemetery in Deptford, NJ

The Trustees of the Green Cemetery and Gloucester County Veterans Affairs are pleased to make this announcement

Green** Cemetery (Trust)

500 Tanyard Road

Deptford, NJ

(Note _ The Postal Service can not deliver to this address -

see Contacts Tab for mailing address and location map )

** was the name of the founder as verse an environmentally friendly "Green Burial" (sorry)

SO, What New?

JOIN the GREEN WALKERS (see link below)

Beginning in the 1880's, this cemetery was envisioned by its creator - Dr. Lewis M. Green, a local entrepreneur - as a "rustic county garden".

Dr. Green purchased the former Methodist-Episcopal Cemetery (now known as West Park A & B). He subsequently purchasing three neighboring plots of land in order to create the original 22 acre facility (as shown on Cemetery Plan Tab).

In 1887, Dr. Green formally began operating the "Green Cemetery" as a sole-proprietorship.

Dr. Green died in 1894, and the 2nd Codicil of his Will transferred the cemetery into an "Operating Trust" (because corporate law did not yet then exist in State of New Jersey) See HISTORY TABS for more details.

Today, the cemetery continues to operate under the combined jurisdiction of the: Surrogate's Court of Gloucester County, NJ and the New Jersey Cemetery Board [NJCB] (see LINKS)