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The City Cemetery is located at:
Marietta City Cemetery
420 West Atlanta Road
Marietta, GA 30064
It is in Land Lot 1290, District 16. It was established in the 1830s and provides the final resting place for a broad cross section of the community's early residents, notably without the barriers between different races, religions and backgrounds common to Georgia at that time.
Marietta Marietta City Website
Formerly Citizen's Cemetery.
Marietta City Cemetery is located on Powder Springs Street in Marietta close to its intersection with the 120 Loop less than one mile from the Marietta Square. The cemetery is adjacent to Confederate Cemetery.
In 1833, the first church in Marietta was built on the land that is now Confederate Cemetery. The church would move to Church Street in Marietta in 1839. In 1848, Marietta's first mayor, John Glover, purchased the land as part of a larger tract of land.
In 1863, the land began its use as a cemetery for Confederate war dead. Although Marietta would not experience fierce fighting until 1865, she and her citizens experienced the carnage of war as Confederate injured were brought from Chickamauga and other sites to hospitals in Marietta. Those who died were buried in the Confederate Cemetery.
In 1867, Jane Glover donated the land to the Memorial Association.
The Marietta City Cemetery seems to have been established as a cemetery circa 1831. The oldest gave in the cemetery is that of William Harris. For that reason, it is considered to be the Founder's Lot.
Many of the family plots and tombstones read like a "Who's Who" of Marietta's history. Among the notable families buried in Marietta City Cemetery are the Clays, Chastains, Blackwells, Ganns, Clackums, Daniells, Dobbins, Dobbs, Dunns, Thackers, Whitlocks, Steinhauers and many others.
Some notable characters are, likewise, buried in City Cemetery. They include Mary Phagan, the young girl who was murdered in the Atlanta Pencil Factory for which Leo Frank was lynched. A historical marker from the cemetery may be found here. Her tombstone is here.
Another interesting aspect of Marietta City Cemetery is that the cemetery has a slave section. While only four of the slaves buried herein are known, it is odd that a southern cemetery would include such a section.
Because of the age of the cemetery, many of the stones have suffered due to age and exposure to the weather conditions. We have made the best efforts possible to decipher names based on the limitations of the information available. Please forgive us for misspellings or misinterpretations of partial characters.
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