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Greenwood Cemetery is located in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee. The cemetery is small, containing a little over 600 graves.
"Greenwood Cemetery, although not the oldest cemetery in Maury County, is the original burial grounds in the city of Columbia. It was created on November 14, 1809 by the commissioners designated by the governor of Tennessee to lay out the county seat for Maury County.
Greenwood contains the mortal remains of many of Maury County's pioneers. Among them are the graves of Major Samuel Polk and his wife, Jane Knox Polk. These were the parents of James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States. Also we find markers in Greenwood for at least three soldiers of the American Revolution, a dozen or so for soldiers of the War of 1812, one or two for the Mexican War, and several for the Civil War. The City of Columbia, in 1886, passed an ordinance that effectively closed the cemetery for further interments. The only exception was for near relatives of persons already buried there. Only a few burials have been made in Greenwood since 1900. The Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Columbia now maintains the cemetery." - Narrative courtesy of the Maury County Historical Society website.
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