About Watkins Cemetery
Watkins Cemetery is a cemetery near Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It lies about 5.8 mi southwest of Lexington. The grounds sit at about 699 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 335802. The nearest other listed cemetery is Tiller Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Barrett Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel in Crawford, about 7.1 mi away. It is one of 286 cemeteries we list in Oglethorpe County, and 201 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lexington. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.92483, -83.03459
What Watkins 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
- Tiller CemeteryLexington, GACemetery0.5 mi
- Matthews CemeteryLexington, GACemetery0.7 mi
- James L. Bridges CemeteryLexington, GACemetery0.9 mi
- T. O. Noell CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.0 mi
- Kent-Gunter CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.0 mi
- Noell CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.3 mi
- Thaddeus Watkins CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.4 mi
- Smith-Mathews CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.5 mi
- McCannon CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.5 mi
- James Paul CemeteryLexington, GACemetery1.7 mi
Funeral homes near Watkins Cemetery
- Barrett Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel7.1 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-6177
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes7.1 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-5030
- Jones Funeral Chapel9.0 miFuneral chapel · Crawford · (706) 743-3618
- Berry Funeral Home Crematory16 miCremation provider · Elberton · (706) 283-5142
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes16 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
- Granite City Mausoleums & Monuments16 miMonument dealer · Elberton · (706) 318-8831
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