About Melwood Cemetery
Melwood Cemetery is a cemetery near Tucker, DeKalb County, Georgia. It lies about 2.3 mi north of Tucker. The grounds sit at about 1,073 feet above sea level. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Perry Wilbur Fattig. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 325999. The nearest other listed cemetery is Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Boston's Funeral & Cremation Service in Stone Mountain, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 149 cemeteries we list in DeKalb County, and 191 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 149 listings in DeKalb County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Tucker. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Melwood Cemetery
- Perry Wilbur Fattig1881-1953Entomologist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Melwood Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
33.82288, -84.20658
What Melwood 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
- Zion Baptist Church CemeteryTucker, GABaptist cemetery0.2 mi
- Norris Family CemeteryTucker, GAFamily cemetery1.3 mi
- Johnson-Maddox-Goldsmith CemeteryStone Mountain, GACemetery1.6 mi
- Old Fellowship CemeteryTucker, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Clarkston CemeteryClarkston, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church CemeteryTucker, GABaptist cemetery1.8 mi
- Dabney-Shumate CemeteryTucker, GACemetery1.9 mi
- Stone Mountain CemeteryStone Mountain, GACemetery2.1 mi
- Rehoboth CemeteryClarkston, GACemetery2.5 mi
- Henderson Family CemeteryTucker, GAFamily cemetery2.5 mi
Funeral homes near Melwood Cemetery
- Boston's Funeral & Cremation Service1.4 miCremation provider · Stone Mountain · (404) 228-1067
- Atlanta Crematory2.2 miCremation provider · Stone Mountain · (770) 469-5577
- Wages & Sons Funeral Homes and Crematories2.2 miCremation provider · Stone Mountain · (770) 469-9811
- Floral Hills Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Tucker · (770) 491-3021
- Eppinger & Lewis Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Stone Mountain · (770) 797-5378
- Lee's Funeral Home3.4 miFuneral home · Decatur · (404) 929-0063
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