About Puryear Cemetery
Puryear Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. It lies about 7.9 mi northwest of Athens. The grounds sit at about 689 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 329339. The nearest other listed cemetery is Morton Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes in Athens, about 4.5 mi away. It is one of 111 cemeteries we list in Clarke County, and 243 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.
Map
33.87070, -83.29264
What Puryear 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
- Morton Chapel Baptist Church CemeteryAthens, GABaptist cemetery0.4 mi
- Tuck CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.7 mi
- Kent-Bradberry CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.2 mi
- Dove CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.5 mi
- Young CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.5 mi
- Adams CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.6 mi
- Corinth CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.6 mi
- Morton CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Hanson-Sorrells-Eidson CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.8 mi
- Big Creek Hardshell CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.8 mi
Funeral homes near Puryear Cemetery
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes4.5 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
- Jones Funeral Chapel6.3 miFuneral chapel · Crawford · (706) 743-3618
- Mack & Payne Funeral Home Inc6.6 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-8213
- Gardenview Funeral Chapel7.3 miFuneral chapel · Athens · (706) 546-1125
- Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home8.1 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-3623
- Winfrey Mutual Funeral Home8.3 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 548-4246
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