Proximity Cemetery in Greensboro, North Carolina

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Get directions 2000 Phillips Ave
Greensboro, North Carolina 27405 United States

Coordinates: 36.09840, -79.75230
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Proximity Cemetery used to be owned by Cone Textile Company. It offered free burial plots for the workers and their families. The oldest know headstone is from 1901. The cemetery burials were divided by the plant the person worked in. Those plants were White Oak- which is the front section of the cemetery, Proximity plant which is to the left side of the right entrance driveway and Revolution which is the back part of the cemetery. There were never any records kept of the burials, over the years this cemetery fell into disrepair, it was vandalized, headstones were broken and moved. The company changed hands, sold off assets and the cemetery suffered from neglect. Several years a new owner bought the cemetery and has cleaned it and it is now being used as a general cemetery opened to the public. Names of the deceased have been added through the work of volunteers, using obituaries, death certificates and walking the cemetery and recording names on headstones. But, unless there is a headstone or marker, there is absolutely no way to know the location of many, many people buried in this cemetery. I am sorry, but no records were kept of the burial locations. The company relied on the families to know where their loved ones are buried. All known headstones before 2012 have been photographed- any requests for early burials very rarely can be fulfilled.