About Akins-Riggs Cemetery
Akins-Riggs Cemetery is a cemetery near Metter, Candler County, Georgia. It lies about 7.0 mi west of Metter. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Zion Church Cemetery, about 0.1 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Wood Funeral Home in Metter, about 6.4 mi away. It is one of 54 cemeteries we list in Candler County, and 65 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Candler County dates to 1935. 1 of the 54 listings in Candler County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Metter. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
32.38616, -81.94007
What Akins-Riggs 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
- Mount Zion Church CemeteryMetter, GAChurch cemetery0.1 mi
- Parrish CemeteryStatesboro, GACemetery1.5 mi
- Saint Pauls Church CemeteryStatesboro, GAChristian cemetery2.7 mi
- Saint Matthew's M. B. Church CemeteryMetter, GAChurch cemetery2.7 mi
- Hodges Family CemeteryMetter, GAFamily cemetery3.2 mi
- Buie Family CemeteryMetter, GAFamily cemetery3.3 mi
- Lakeside First Baptist Church CemeteryMetter, GABaptist cemetery3.8 mi
- Noahs Ark CemeteryStatesboro, GAChristian cemetery3.9 mi
- Bowen - Dekle CemeteryMetter, GACemetery4.0 mi
- Lake CemeteryMetter, GACemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Akins-Riggs Cemetery
- Wood Funeral Home6.4 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-2084
- Hodges Family Funeral Homes6.7 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-2400
- Whitaker Funeral Home7.2 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-5158
- Kennedy Funeral Homes7.2 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-2131
- Hooks Chapel7.2 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-2131
- Wood Funeral Home7.8 miFuneral home · Metter · (912) 685-2084
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