About Old West Cemetery
Old West Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Menard County, Illinois. The grounds sit at about 600 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 420802. The nearest other listed cemetery is Joel Hall Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mott & Henning Funeral Home in Athens, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 35 cemeteries we list in Menard County, and 35 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Athens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.95948, -89.73201
What Old West 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
- Joel Hall CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery0.4 mi
- Canterbury CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery3.0 mi
- Indian Point CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery3.1 mi
- Lebanon CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery3.7 mi
- Hornback CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery3.8 mi
- Strode CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery4.0 mi
- Hopwood CemeteryAthens, ILCemetery4.1 mi
- Hickory Grove CemeteryPetersburg, ILCemetery4.5 mi
- Brittin CemeterySherman, ILCemetery4.7 mi
- Baker Prairie Number 1 CemeteryPetersburg, ILCemetery5.0 mi
Funeral homes near Old West Cemetery
- Mott & Henning Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Athens · (217) 636-8212
- Hurley Funeral Home7.2 miFuneral home · Petersburg · (217) 632-2500
- Staab Funeral Homes8.1 miFuneral home · Sherman · (217) 993-7770
- Hurley Funeral Home8.6 miFuneral home · Greenview · (217) 968-5504
- Ellinger-Kunz & Park Funeral Home & Cremation Service11 miFuneral home · Springfield · (217) 544-5755
- Ruby Funeral Services & Chapel, Inc.12 miFuneral home · Springfield · (217) 679-6658
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