About Wates Cemetery
Wates Cemetery is a cemetery near Cherokee, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It lies about 20 mi southeast of Cherokee. The grounds sit at about 449 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 153899. The nearest other listed cemetery is Carson Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Cutshall Funeral Home in Iuka, about 13 mi away. It is one of 170 cemeteries we list in Lauderdale County, and 67 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cherokee. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
34.99600, -88.17887
What Wates Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Carson CemeteryCherokee, ALCemetery1.3 mi
- Shaw CemeteryCarson Road, Waterloo, ALChristian cemetery1.5 mi
- Johnson CemeteryIuka, MSCemetery1.5 mi
- Thomas CemeterySavannah, TNCemetery2.4 mi
- Hubbard CemeteryIuka, MSCemetery2.4 mi
- Stout CemeterySavannah, TNCemetery2.8 mi
- Wood CemeterySavannah, TNCemetery3.3 mi
- Hitchcock CemeterySavannah, TNCemetery3.4 mi
- Parker CemeteryCounty Road 105, Waterloo, ALChristian cemetery3.5 mi
- Shanghai Cemetery Number 1Savannah, TNCemetery3.7 mi
Funeral homes near Wates Cemetery
- Cutshall Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Iuka · (662) 423-5222
- Iuka Monument Company13 miMonument dealer · Iuka · (662) 423-3203
- Cutshall Funeral Home-West Chapel14 miFuneral home · Glen · (662) 427-9655
- Ludlam Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Iuka · (662) 423-5800
- Ludlum Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Iuka
- Shackelford Funeral Directors17 miFuneral home · Savannah · (731) 925-4000
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