American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
Chartered by the Ohio legislature in 1846 and still owned by its own nonprofit association. Where it is, who to call, who’s buried there, and what to ask before ordering a headstone from a monument company like ours.
The Massillon Cemetery Association was incorporated by an act of the Ohio legislature on February 16, 1846, and the Ohio Secretary of State still lists it as an active nonprofit. It isn’t a city cemetery, though some listings call it Massillon City Cemetery. The Stark County Auditor’s records put the grounds inside the City of Massillon, with most of the land in the association’s name.
The stone building at the entrance went up in 1879. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places as the Massillon Cemetery Building. The local historian Margy Vogt writes that it was built of local stone as the superintendent’s house and served for a century as both the sexton’s home and the cemetery office. She wrote in 2021 that it’s now only the office.
Two state historical markers on the grounds record Medal of Honor recipients buried here. Robert Pinn died in 1911 and is buried in the cemetery. Private William R. Richardson of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, honored for the Battle of Sailor’s Creek in 1865, is buried with his comrades by the Civil War Soldiers Monument.
Across the road: St. Joseph Cemetery, on the other side of Erie Street, is a separate Catholic cemetery. If you’re looking for a Catholic grave on Erie Street, it may be there rather than here.
The association is from the Ohio Secretary of State’s business records (entity 980597); the grounds from the Stark County Auditor’s parcel records; the building from the National Park Service; the burials from the Ohio History Connection markers for Robert Pinn and William R. Richardson; the building’s use from Margy Vogt for Visit Canton. All checked 2026-11-02.
The cemetery has no website, so there’s no online burial search and no published office hours. The way to find a grave is to call (330) 833-3214 with the name. That’s the number on the cemetery’s Google listing. Find a Grave has volunteer listings under the name Massillon City Cemetery, which can help, but they aren’t the cemetery’s own records.
Decorations. The cemetery hasn’t published decoration rules or clean-up dates. Before you leave a wreath for the winter, or anything you’d be sorry to lose, call and ask when things are cleared.
Checked 2026-11-02. The cemetery office is the authority, not this page.
We’re a monument shop in Ravenna, about twenty-eight miles from Massillon Cemetery, and we work in every cemetery in Stark County. Massillon Cemetery is one of them. The granite is cut, lettered, and finished by hand in our own shop.
We don’t publish what Massillon Cemetery allows, because the cemetery hasn’t published its rules. What we do instead is ask, before you’ve chosen anything: whether an upright is permitted where they’re buried, what the base has to be, how the foundation is to be poured and by whom. If the memorial 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. Massillon Cemetery 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 in Stark County.
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.
Slant, bevel, and flat markers in granite, and bronze. Whether a section takes an upright is a question for the office, and worth asking before you fall for one.
Solid granite benches, engraved. A place to sit at the grave rather than stand at it, where the cemetery allows one.
Urn-ready stones and memorials for cremated remains, single or companion, for families who chose cremation and still want somewhere to go.
Adding a date to a stone already standing, straightening one that has leaned or sunk, and cleaning older granite and marble properly. In a cemetery this old, read how to clean a headstone before you try it yourself, because old marble is easy to ruin.
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.
1827 Erie St. S., Massillon, Ohio 44646, inside the City of Massillon. The number on the cemetery's Google listing is (330) 833-3214. The cemetery doesn't have a website.
No, although it's sometimes listed as Massillon City Cemetery. It's owned by the Massillon Cemetery Association, a nonprofit that the Ohio legislature incorporated in 1846 and that the Ohio Secretary of State still lists as active.
The Massillon Cemetery Association was incorporated by an act of the Ohio legislature on February 16, 1846. The stone office building at the entrance dates from 1879 and is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Massillon Cemetery Building.
Ohio History Connection markers on the grounds record two Medal of Honor recipients: Robert Pinn, who died in 1911, and Private William R. Richardson of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, who is buried with his comrades by the Civil War Soldiers Monument.
The cemetery has no website or online burial search, so call (330) 833-3214 with the name. Find a Grave has volunteer listings for the cemetery, under the name Massillon City Cemetery, but they aren't the cemetery's own records.
No. St. Joseph is a separate Catholic cemetery across Erie Street, on land the Stark County Auditor's records list under the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown. If you're looking for a Catholic grave on Erie Street, it may be there.
The cemetery hasn't published its rules, so the answer has to come from the office rather than from a website. Tell us the section and we'll ask on your behalf before you choose anything.
If the cemetery agrees, yes. Adding a date or a name to a stone already standing is ordinary work for us, and it's done at the grave, not by taking the stone away. We ask the office first.
When you’re ready, our family is here to help yours, with patience, care, and no obligation.
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