American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
A Catholic cemetery of the Diocese of Youngstown, serving Canton and Massillon since 1904, on Lincoln Way East between the two cities. Where it is, who to call, the decoration rules, and what to ask before ordering a headstone from a monument company like ours.
Calvary was established in 1904, and the first burial, of the Rev. John Burkel in the priests’ section, was on October 8, 1905. The cemetery office says it began as a cemetery of the Diocese of Cleveland and joined the Diocese of Youngstown in 1949. Today it’s run by the diocese’s Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services, a church-owned non-profit, and it’s the only one of the office’s four cemeteries in Stark County.
Of about ninety acres, forty-five are developed. The entrance is shaded by oaks the cemetery describes as more than 200 years old, and one section has monuments depicting the Stations of the Cross. There are three mausoleums: the first opened in 1929, the Chapel Mausoleum was built in 1997 and is where committals and services are held, and the St. Michael/St. Joan of Arc Community Mausoleum, built in 2004, is named after two local parishes. Two columbaria followed in 2005 and 2011, and a Cremorial Garden has in-ground niches around a granite bench.
On the mausoleum’s eastern wall, the All Souls Remembrance crypt takes cremated remains at no charge, for people of any faith. Mass is said in the chapel once a month, and the Rosary on the first Wednesday of each month.
Canton, Massillon, or Perry Township? The address is Massillon, and the diocese describes the cemetery as serving Canton and Massillon. The Stark County Auditor’s parcel records put the grounds in Perry Township, between the two cities.
History, figures, and office hours are from the cemetery office’s Calvary page, the grounds hours from its decoration regulations, and the rest from the Diocese of Youngstown; the township is from the Stark County Auditor’s parcel records. All checked 2026-11-02. The cemetery office is the authority on anything current.
The diocese’s cemetery office publishes the rules. The ones that matter most:
From the cemetery office’s 2026 decoration regulations, linked from the Calvary page, checked 2026-11-02. The office says it isn’t responsible for lost or damaged decorations, and it is the authority, not this page.
The diocese’s cemetery office sells memorials itself: flush and pillow-top markers, traditional uprights, and cremation memorials and benches, designed with its family service staff. Family plots can take larger headstones.
It hasn’t published rules either way on a stone from an outside monument company: no dealer form, no permit, no ban. What it does say, in its planning guide, is that the cemetery management must certify the type of memorial chosen is acceptable. Its own literature also says several family members can have their names on one monument, space permitting, but that certain sections and mausoleums set a number of inscriptions per space.
So the first step is a phone call to the office, and we’ll make it. Before you’ve chosen anything, we’ll find out what the section permits, what the cemetery needs to see to approve the memorial, and how it wants the foundation and the setting done. We don’t publish rules we can’t source, so this page doesn’t guess at sizes or fees.
From the cemetery office’s memorials page, FAQs, and planning guide, checked 2026-11-02. The cemetery office has the final word.
We’re a monument shop in Ravenna, about twenty-five miles from Calvary, and we work in every cemetery in Stark County. Calvary is one of them. The granite is cut, lettered, and finished by hand in our own shop.
We ask the cemetery first, every time. At Calvary that means the section, what it permits, and what the cemetery needs to approve the memorial, before you’ve chosen anything. If what you have in mind isn’t allowed there, you’ll hear it from us early, while changing your mind is still free. Then we make the stone. At most cemeteries, the cemetery pours the foundation and we set the stone on it. Calvary decides who does each here, and we arrange both with the office.
You don’t have to make the drive to order. We can start from a phone call and send proofs. If you’d rather see granite in daylight than on a screen, the showroom in Ravenna is open weekdays, with evenings and weekends by appointment, and there’s no obligation attached to walking in. Our Canton page covers the other cemeteries around the city.
The traditional standing headstone, for one name or two, or a family monument carrying several, where the section takes one. Shape, granite color, carving, and etching are decided with you.
Flush and pillow markers in granite or bronze, and slants where the section allows them. Which sections take only a flush marker is a question for the office, and worth asking before you fall for an upright.
Solid granite benches, engraved. A place to sit at the grave rather than stand at it, where the cemetery allows one.
Calvary has columbaria, a Cremorial Garden, and cremation burials. Where a memorial for cremated remains can go is the first question to put to the office.
Adding a date or a name to a stone already standing is done at the grave, once the cemetery has agreed. Straightening a stone that has leaned or sunk is part of the same service.
Start with what to say rather than what to buy. Our guide to what to write on a headstone covers names, dates, epitaphs, and emblems, and granite colors explains which stone suits which kind of lettering.
3469 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, Ohio 44646, on the road between Canton and Massillon. The office is on (330) 832-1866, open Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, and the grounds are open sunrise to sunset every day.
Not inside the city. The Diocese of Youngstown runs one Calvary Cemetery in Stark County, this one on Lincoln Way East, and it describes it as serving Canton and Massillon. The address is Massillon, but the Stark County Auditor's parcel records put the grounds in Perry Township, between the two cities.
Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services of the Diocese of Youngstown, a church-owned non-profit. The cemetery office says Calvary was part of the Diocese of Cleveland until 1949. It was established in 1904, and the first burial was on October 8, 1905.
The diocese's cemetery office says its cemeteries serve the Catholic community including non-Catholic spouses, children, parents and other relatives, and that other Christians may also be buried there. It also offers, at no charge and to anyone of any faith, committal of cremated remains that are being kept at home or might otherwise be scattered.
There's no online burial search or published map, so call the office on (330) 832-1866, Monday to Friday, with the name and ask where the grave is.
Christmas tributes can be placed from November 1 through January 31. If you want to keep yours, the cemetery asks that everything is removed before March 1, and clean-up starts the first weekday after. The dates depend on the weather, so check with the office.
The diocese's cemetery office sells memorials itself: flush, pillow-top, and upright monuments, and cremation memorials and benches. It hasn't published rules either way on a stone from an outside monument company, and its planning guide says cemetery management must certify that the type of memorial chosen is acceptable. So we ask the office before you choose anything.
Space permitting, yes. The cemetery office's own literature says several family members can have their names inscribed on one monument, but that certain sections and mausoleums set a number of inscriptions per space. Adding a date or a name is done at the grave, and we ask the cemetery first.
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