About Gholson Cemetery
Gholson Cemetery is a cemetery near Eldorado, Hamilton County, Illinois. It lies about 7.4 mi south of Eldorado. The grounds sit at about 381 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 408979. The nearest other listed cemetery is Lanham Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Watson Funeral Home in Eldorado, about 7.5 mi away. It is one of 55 cemeteries we list in Hamilton County, and 48 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Eldorado. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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37.92014, -88.44708
What Gholson 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
- Lanham CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery0.7 mi
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryEldorado, ILCemetery1.4 mi
- Roberts CemeteryEldorado, ILCemetery3.0 mi
- Barker CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery3.0 mi
- Keasler CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery3.1 mi
- Gaines Family CemeteryNorris City, ILFamily cemetery3.1 mi
- Morris CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery3.5 mi
- Wolfe CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery3.5 mi
- Cook CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery3.8 mi
- Big Hill CemeteryNorris City, ILCemetery4.4 mi
Funeral homes near Gholson Cemetery
- Watson Funeral Home7.5 miFuneral home · Eldorado · (618) 273-7916
- Colonial Terrace Funeral Home7.5 miFuneral home · Eldorado · (618) 273-2551
- Campbell Funeral Home7.7 miFuneral home · Norris City · (618) 378-3811
- Sloan Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Galatia · (618) 268-4411
- JW Reynolds Memorials - McLeansboro13 miMonument dealer · McLeansboro · (618) 643-2825
- Turner-Eighner Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Somonauk · (815) 498-2363
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