About Benjamin Smith Cemetery
Benjamin Smith Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It lies about 16 mi northwest of Athens. The nearest other listed cemetery is Brightwell Family Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Jones Funeral Chapel in Crawford, about 8.6 mi away. It is one of 286 cemeteries we list in Oglethorpe County, and 166 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Athens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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33.76912, -83.22386
What Benjamin Smith 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
- Brightwell Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery0.6 mi
- James E. Smith CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.8 mi
- Bugg CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.4 mi
- Bugg Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery1.6 mi
- Zuber CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.8 mi
- William Walker CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.0 mi
- Maxeys GraveyardLexington, GACemetery2.2 mi
- William McWhorter CemeteryLexington, GACemetery2.3 mi
- Oconee Baptist Church CemeteryLexington, GABaptist cemetery2.4 mi
- Nicholson CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Benjamin Smith Cemetery
- Jones Funeral Chapel8.6 miFuneral chapel · Crawford · (706) 743-3618
- Barrett Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel9.1 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-6177
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes9.1 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-5030
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes12 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
- Watts Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Union Point · (706) 486-4557
- Callaway Funeral Home and Georgia's Lake Country Crematory13 miCremation provider · Union Point · (706) 486-4138
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