About Prairie Home Cemetery
Prairie Home Cemetery is a cemetery near Bethany, Shelby County, Illinois. It lies about 6.1 mi east of Bethany. 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 1725310. The nearest other listed cemetery is Tolly Cemetery, about 4.6 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Bethany, about 6.1 mi away. It is one of 131 cemeteries we list in Shelby County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Shelby County dates to 1835.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Bethany. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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39.61791, -88.84786
What Prairie Home 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
- Tolly CemeteryMoweaqua, ILCemetery4.6 mi
- Walker CemeteryBethany, ILCemetery4.7 mi
- Locust Grove CemeteryMoweaqua, ILCemetery4.8 mi
- New Hope CemeteryBethany, ILCemetery4.9 mi
- Todds Point CemeteryBethany, ILCemetery5.0 mi
- Foster CemeteryBethany, ILCemetery5.5 mi
- Long Grove CemeteryMacon, ILCemetery5.6 mi
- Union CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery5.8 mi
- Little Flock CemeteryMoweaqua, ILCemetery5.8 mi
- Henderson CemeteryBethany, ILCemetery6.3 mi
Funeral homes near Prairie Home Cemetery
- McMullin-Young Funeral Home6.1 miFuneral home · Bethany · (217) 665-3221
- Seitz Funeral Homes9.1 miFuneral home · Moweaqua · (217) 768-4435
- Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Directors - Macon Chapel9.9 miFuneral home · Macon · (217) 764-5222
- Dawson and Wikoff Funeral Directors11 miFuneral home · Mt Zion · (217) 864-2412
- Hoffman Burial Supplies12 miFuneral home · Sullivan · (217) 728-4069
- Adams Memorials - Mt. Zion12 miMonument dealer · Decatur · (217) 864-2775
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