About Tipsword Cemetery
Tipsword Cemetery is a cemetery near Altamont, Effingham County, Illinois. It lies about 7.8 mi south of Altamont. The grounds sit at about 584 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1725663. The nearest other listed cemetery is Memorial Gardens Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Gieseking Funeral Home in Altamont, about 7.8 mi away. It is one of 81 cemeteries we list in Effingham County, and 57 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Altamont. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.17279, -88.77793
What Tipsword 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
- Memorial Gardens CemeteryAltamont, ILMemorial park0.7 mi
- Beecher CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery0.7 mi
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery1.9 mi
- Moccasin CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery1.9 mi
- Bob Doan CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery2.7 mi
- Ransom CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Hubbartt CemeteryAltamont, ILCemetery3.1 mi
- Agney CemeteryEffingham, ILCemetery4.5 mi
- Giles CemeteryEffingham, ILCemetery4.5 mi
- Saint Paul Lutheran CemeteryAltamont, ILLutheran cemetery5.1 mi
Funeral homes near Tipsword Cemetery
- Gieseking Funeral Home7.8 miFuneral home · Altamont · (618) 483-6821
- Kull Funeral Home7.9 miFuneral home · Altamont · (618) 322-1218
- Brummerstedt Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Stewardson · (217) 682-3822
- Pagel Funeral Homes11 miFuneral home · St Elmo · (618) 829-5432
- Wallace & Carroll Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Herrick · (618) 428-5717
- Bauer Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Effingham · (217) 342-2177
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