About Melson Cemetery
Melson Cemetery is a cemetery near Franklin, Heard County, Georgia. It lies about 6.2 mi southwest of Franklin. The grounds sit at about 817 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 347091. The nearest other listed cemetery is Trinity Chapel Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Tom Stutts & Son Funeral Home in Franklin, about 6.3 mi away. It is one of 129 cemeteries we list in Heard County, and 119 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Franklin. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.32102, -85.00439
What Melson 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
- Trinity Chapel CemeteryFranklin, GAChurch cemetery0.5 mi
- Wesley Chapel CemeteryFranklin, GAChurch cemetery0.5 mi
- Heard Wesley CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery0.6 mi
- Daniel-Lane CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.7 mi
- New Bethel CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Enon Grove CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Stallings CemeteryNewnan, GACemetery1.9 mi
- McWaters CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery2.8 mi
- Augustin CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery3.0 mi
- Robinson CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery3.3 mi
Funeral homes near Melson Cemetery
- Tom Stutts & Son Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Franklin · (706) 675-3393
- Sellers-Smith Funeral Home9.6 miFuneral home · Newnan · (770) 253-1607
- Thrash & Sons Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Hogansville · (706) 637-8791
- Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Hogansville · (706) 637-8623
- Sewell Mortuary12 miMortuary · Grantville · (770) 583-2155
- McKoon Funeral Home and Crematory12 miCremation provider · Newnan · (770) 253-4580
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