The Canton Cemetery Company was started as a profit-making venture. Greenwood Cemetery as it exists today was started by a group of men who called themselves the “Canton Cemetery Company.” Isaiah Stillman surveyed it on Novemand gave the cemetery location as: South West corner of a North East one/quarter of Section 34 of Township 7 North, Range 4 East of the 4th. This land was to be designated by the Fulton County Commissioner as a public burying ground. Land records show that on March 8th, 1839, Nathan Jones and his wife Matilda sold for the sum of seventy dollars a plat of land that measures 16 rods square (1.6 acres) to a group of individuals.
It was located at Northwest quarter 34, 7N. The city’s next burial ground was the start of the current Greenwood Cemetery. This ground was later developed. No record has been found of a transfer of burial remains to any other burial ground. After 1891, Union Street was renamed West Chestnut Street and First Street was renamed North Avenue B. This ground was located at the intersection of Union Street and First Street. Canton’s first burying ground was started on Septemand contained 24 lots.
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