About Rains Cemetery
Rains Cemetery is a cemetery near Franklin, Heard County, Georgia. It lies about 3.6 mi northwest of Franklin. The grounds sit at about 804 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 347127. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old Mount Olive Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Tom Stutts & Son Funeral Home in Franklin, about 4.5 mi away. It is one of 129 cemeteries we list in Heard County, and 109 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
33.24275, -85.05204
What Rains 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
- Old Mount Olive CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery0.9 mi
- Isham Daniel Family CemeteryFranklin, GAFamily cemetery1.2 mi
- Shackleford - Lane CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.3 mi
- Dowell CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.4 mi
- Carser Chapel CemeteryFranklin, GAChurch cemetery1.8 mi
- Daniels CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery1.9 mi
- Harmony Church CemeteryFranklin, GAChurch cemetery2.2 mi
- Old Harmony CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery2.3 mi
- Purgason CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery2.9 mi
- Owensby CemeteryFranklin, GACemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Rains Cemetery
- Tom Stutts & Son Funeral Home4.5 miFuneral home · Franklin · (706) 675-3393
- Thrash & Sons Funeral Home9.1 miFuneral home · Hogansville · (706) 637-8791
- Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home9.4 miFuneral home · Hogansville · (706) 637-8623
- Striffler-Hamby Mortuary13 miMortuary · LaGrange · (706) 884-8636
- Sewell Mortuary14 miMortuary · Grantville · (770) 583-2155
- Higgins Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · LaGrange · (706) 884-7117
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