Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of Miami. The cemetery consists of 86 acres with more than 20,000 burial plots currently in place, with the oldest recorded and legibly marked grave dated 1892.

Our burial records are now available online. You may upload photographs, documents, memories and much more to your loved one’s ‘Remember My Journey’ page. Staff is available to assist you in finding a designated location in the cemetery office.

It is the purpose of the G.A.R. Cemetery staff and management to provide empathetic, compassionate, and effective services for our families.

Frequently Asked Questions

Four times a year, always on the same days (see details below), the city requests the removal of all grave decorations. This allows us the time to do any necessary construction-type maintenance and to thoroughly clean the cemetery to provide the most attractive atmosphere possible.

The decoration removal days are:

  • The first Monday in February
  • The second Monday following Easter
  • The first Monday following Memorial Day, and The first Monday in October

Unfortunately, we cannot allow personal plantings upon the gravesites, however, you may contact the cemetery manager and he can work with you on an appropriate location where planting is acceptable.

The maximum amount of persons that can be interred within one grave space is two (2). Either both must be cremains, or at lease one of the interments must be cremains. At G.A.R. Cemetery, we do not allow stacked burials.

No. G.A.R. Cemetery does not allow pets to be buried on their grounds.

Yes, there are additional fees for a 10:00 a.m. Saturday service. Please refer to our G.A.R. Cemetery Rates and Fees pamphlet for details.

It is important to remember those who have passed in a permanent resting place. In a cemetery, the remains will always be protected in a sacred place and remembered with dignity and respect. Information about the deceased will be kept permanently in cemetery records. A cemetery provides a link with our past.

Both a mausoleum and a columbarium are permanent public memorials for groups of people. Mausoleums, however, are designed for entire bodies in crypts. On the other hand, columbaria are designed to hold cremation urns in a niche.

‘Remember My Journey’ is a program built into our interment data base that allows you to upload photos, documents, memories and so much more to your loved one’s profile to tell their life’s story.