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Cedar Hill Cemetery

The City of Covington, VA owns and maintains Cedar Hill Cemetery located on S. Carpenter Drive.  Mr. Russell Carson is the Sexton at the cemetery and has two full-time employees.  Many servicemen are buried in Cedar Hill, veterans of the Civil War, Confederate, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Korea and Spanish American.  The remains of many prominent leaders of Covington and Alleghany County are also buried at Cedar Hill.

A listing of the Cedar Hill Cemetery Grave Interment (Excel) record can be accessed for your review, download and information.  (The information contained herein is accurate based on City of Covington opening/closing grave records but does not contain an entry for every burial at Cedar Hill and the former Cedar Grove Cemeteries.)  Names of those buried in the cemetery prior to 1950 can be identified in the Genealogical Index (pdf) ; locate your family member in the index and then contact either Tracy Persinger or Russell Carson for additional information specific to your request.

Should you desire additional information about Cedar Hill Cemetery, please contact Jane Tucker at the City of Covington jtucker@covington.va.us (540) 965-6360; or contact Russell Carson at Cedar Hill at (540) 965-6383.

Cemetery regulations for Cedar Hill can be accessed in the City Code, Chapter 7 (pdf)

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