About this site
Greenlawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Groves, Jefferson County. It is one of 40 cemeteries documented in Jefferson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 166 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.9344, -93.9273 near Groves. The nearest cataloged historic site is Johnson (cemetery), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Janis Lyn Joplin, The Hughen School, and Harry Henry Choates.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7245000505. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Greenlawn Memorial Park in Groves traces its origins to 1898, when Charles E. Smith and the Gifford family, operators of the Crowell-Gifford furniture and casket business in Port Arthur, developed the grounds on former farmland. Under Nick Gifford and later his son-in-law Mack Alden Pond, the cemetery installed underground drainage and paved roads by 1948, making it one of the first modern perpetual-care cemeteries in the state. The roughly 90-acre park is among the largest cemeteries in southern Jefferson County, with more than 31,000 interments, and joined the Dignity Memorial network in 1998.
Sources: dignitymemorial.comhistoric.one
