Palm Grove Cemetery is a
cemetery near downtown
Monrovia, the capital city of
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
. During the
Tolbert administration, the cemetery became the focus of the national Decoration Day, which continued to be observed after Tolbert was murdered in a
1980 coup d'état and his body dumped at the cemetery. Once the country's national cemetery, it was threatened during June 1982 by Monrovia municipal authorities. In a complaint to the
People's Redemption Council
The People's Redemption Council (PRC) was a governmental body that ruled Liberia during the early 1980s. It was established after the 1980 Liberian coup d'état wherein Samuel Doe seized power on 12 April 1980. The Council, with Doe as its chair ...
, the city noted that the cemetery was being used as a waste dump and was so full of graves that new burials were being conducted unsafely, even though increasing numbers of local residents were being buried in
Paynesville. The authorities requested permission to close the cemetery to new burials and to move the cemetery to a new location, away from its original Center Street site, but the cemetery remains in Monrovia to date.
[Sendolo, Joaquin. ]
Several Graves Ransacked at Palm Grove Cemetery: Many Families Saddened
. ''Daily Observer'', 2012-03-20. Accessed 2012-04-16.
Notable burials
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Martin Henry Freeman (1826–1889) – University president
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Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was educat ...
(1815-1882) – African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876) – President of Liberia
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Cemeteries in Liberia
Monrovia
National cemeteries
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