Columbus along with the rest of Franklinton in 1859. At one time called "the Grave Yard of the City of Columbus", a new graveyard opened on present-day Livingston Avenue in 1841. This became the South Graveyard, with the older site renamed the North Graveyard. The Catholic Cemetery opened in 1846; these two new cemeteries relieved pressure to expand the North Graveyard. An addition called the Brickell Addition was the last expansion, after pioneer John Brickell's death in 1844. Decline, closure, and burial removals By 1848, City Council authorized selling off parcels from the graveyard. Green Lawn Cemetery opened in the following year, summer 1849. In the 1850s, some residents supported the graveyard's continued maintenance and improvements, while others wanted it closed to future interments or completely abandoned. The north and west sides of the graveyard were improved with a tight board fence in 1852. In the 1850s, some residents owning lots at the graveyard decided to have their relatives' remains exhumed and reburied in Green Lawn Cemetery. These voluntary removals happened at a slow rate. In 1856, city residents petitioned the city council to prevent further interments in the graveyard. The city responded by passing a bill that year banning any graveyard burials within the city boundaries of the time and in the North Graveyard, though it was repealed about a month later. The area was annexed into the city in 1862, further increasing expectations for the graveyard's closure or removal. In 1864, the Green Lawn Cemetery Association proposed that lot owners at the North Cemetery could exchange those with Green Lawn lots, with any remains transferred; the association would eventually lease the North Graveyards spaces to provide income for the cemetery. The offer was taken up by many lot owners, and allowed the city to unanimously pass a new ordinance in 1864 prohibiting any further burials in the graveyard. In 1868, the Union Depot Company was formed. The company took over the first railroad station in Columbus, Union Depot, located across High Street from the graveyard and built in 1850. It planned for a new station, and the railroads sued the city in order to gain access to land used by the graveyard to expand their rail corridor, with claims that the land was left unmaintained and that the 1864 prohibition on burials ended lot owners' "right of easement". In 1872, a Franklin County court ordered an appointed master