Caring For Those Who Cared For Us

Cottage Grove Ave. walk-in entrance at East View Cemetery
Cottage Grove Ave. walk-in entrance at East View Cemetery

East View Cemetery is not just a cemetery; it is a piece of history dating back to 1885, located in the East Lake community of Atlanta, Georgia, and plays a vital and important role in the history and beautification of the East Lake community.

While many cemeteries fall victim to neglect and criminal activity, the East View Cemetery Association recognizes the importance of preventing this from happening by seeking help from its association members and community volunteers.

We greatly appreciate any assistance in the form of financial donations as well as the volunteering of your time and/or talents. Our goals are:

  • to restore and properly maintain East View Cemetery
  • to show dignity and respect to those who have passed on
  • to be a valuable asset to the East Lake community which surrounds the cemetery.

Please contact us to see how you can help!

East View Cemetery is not a perpetual care cemetery; it is maintained by unpaid volunteers, and all donated funds go toward the maintenance of the cemetery. Lot owners and/or their families are responsible for maintaining their individual lot.

Finding a Grave

Looking for someone buried in the East View Cemetery? Please refer to our Locate a Grave tool. We also have an aerial map and layout of the cemetery for additional reference.

Burials

Get information and requirements for burials, and learn how our group can assist you.

Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you

— Author Unknown