About Rakestraw Cemetery
Rakestraw Cemetery is a cemetery near Covington, Newton County, Georgia. It lies about 5.3 mi northwest of Covington. The grounds sit at about 761 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 335306. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Caldwell and Cowan Funeral Home and Dogwood Hill Crematory in Covington, about 4.9 mi away. It is one of 139 cemeteries we list in Newton County, and 154 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Covington. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.55186, -83.78584
What Rakestraw 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
- Lane Family CemeteryCovington, GAFamily cemetery0.1 mi
- Adams CemeteryCovington, GACemetery1.0 mi
- Mount Moriah CemeteryCovington, GACemetery1.3 mi
- Richmond Terrell CemeteryCovington, GACemetery1.4 mi
- George Newton Hays CemeteryCovington, GACemetery1.6 mi
- Starrsville CemeteryCovington, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Echols CemeteryCovington, GACemetery2.0 mi
- Starr Family CemeteryCovington, GAFamily cemetery2.0 mi
- Marks Family CemeteryCovington, GAFamily cemetery2.0 mi
- Dyer Family CemeteryCovington, GAFamily cemetery2.0 mi
Funeral homes near Rakestraw Cemetery
- Caldwell and Cowan Funeral Home and Dogwood Hill Crematory4.9 miCremation provider · Covington · (770) 786-7042
- JC Harwell & Son Funeral Home5.0 miFuneral home · Covington · (770) 786-2524
- Lester Lackey & Sons Funeral Home Inc.5.3 miFuneral home · Covington · (770) 786-6177
- Young-Levett Funeral Home5.6 miFuneral home · Covington · (770) 786-2944
- Caldwell & Cowan Funeral Home and Dogwood Hill Crematory7.3 miCremation provider · Covington · (770) 786-7062
- New South Cremation Services7.7 miCremation provider · Covington · (770) 786-7291
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