About Lower Cemetery
Lower Cemetery is a cemetery near Colchester, McDonough County, Illinois. It lies about 2.3 mi northeast of Colchester. The grounds sit at about 669 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 412712. The nearest other listed cemetery is Neece Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the east. The nearest mortuary we know of is Jones Mortuary in Colchester, about 2.3 mi away. It is one of 91 cemeteries we list in McDonough County, and 56 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Colchester. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.39809, -90.81596
What Lower 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
- Neece CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery1.4 mi
- Hutchinson CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery1.7 mi
- Widow Moore CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Barber CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.3 mi
- Sacred Heart CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.5 mi
- Mount Auburn CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.7 mi
- Gibson CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery3.0 mi
- White Flock CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery3.1 mi
- Miler GraveColchester, ILCemetery3.2 mi
- Bean CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery3.5 mi
Funeral homes near Lower Cemetery
- Jones Mortuary2.3 miMortuary · Colchester · (309) 776-3122
- Dodsworth-piper-wallen Funeral8.6 miFuneral home · Macomb · (309) 833-4119
- Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Homes8.8 miFuneral home · Macomb · (309) 833-2188
- Banks & Beals Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · La Harpe · (217) 659-7751
- Martin-hollis Funeral Home20 miFuneral home · Bushnell · (309) 772-3116
- Kost Memorial Home22 miFuneral home · Vermont · (309) 784-2661
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