Greenlawn Memorial Park, also known as Greenlawn Cemetery, is located at 2700 Parish Avenue,

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. Greenlawn Memorial Park is a

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located where two natural streams, Mill Dam Creek and Salters Creek, come together. The cemetery has been in continuous operation, serving the Newport News and

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, since 1888. There are approximately 20,000 burials in the cemetery. Greenlawn Memorial Park is on the

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/ref> Greenlawn Cemetery was developed by the Newport News Cemetery Company beginning February 14, 1888. The incorporators were T. H. Gordon, Louis Bremond, I. E. White, Theodore Livezey, E. Clayton, E. B. Smith, T. E. Monis and M. B. Crowell. By the terms of the charter, they were authorized to associate others with them.

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, George Benjamin West, Carter M. Braxton, W. B. Livezey, C. B. Nelms and W. J. Nelms were added as associates. At the center of the cemetery is a

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erected in 1900 marking the mass grave of 163

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. The 163 Confederate soldiers were re-interred there in 1900. These were POWs who died in the nearby Newport News POW camp between April 27, 1865 and July 5, 1865. At the foot of this monument is a granite ledger with the names, rank, state and unit of each soldier. Soldiers from 13 southern states are represented. The cemetery office building is a 1936

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Notable burials

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(1872–1950): U. S. Congressman from Virginia serving from July 2, 1918 to February 16, 1950. * Perkins, Robert Walker (1859–1919): member of

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, 1894 to 1896. *

Nathaniel Jarrett Webb Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (April 25, 1891 – July 18, 1943) was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Newport News City Council, and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Newport News and Warwick County ...

(1891–1943): member of

, 1936 to 1939. * One British Commonwealth war grave, of an

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