About Mount Vernon Cemetery
Mount Vernon Cemetery is a cemetery near Galesburg, Mercer County, Illinois. It lies about 10 mi southeast of Galesburg. The grounds sit at about 758 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1719875. The nearest other listed cemetery is Fuller Cemetery, about 2.9 mi to the southeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Moore Memorial Homes in Alexis, about 4.6 mi away. It is one of 51 cemeteries we list in Mercer County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Galesburg. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.07811, -90.46727
What Mount Vernon 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
- Fuller CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery2.9 mi
- Deatherage CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery4.0 mi
- Rio Baptist CemeteryGalesburg, ILBaptist cemetery4.0 mi
- Rio CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery4.3 mi
- Potter CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery4.3 mi
- Rice - Blue CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery5.1 mi
- Henderson Grove CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery5.2 mi
- Mann CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery5.5 mi
- Soperville CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery5.6 mi
- Junk CemeteryGalesburg, ILCemetery5.7 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Vernon Cemetery
- Moore Memorial Homes4.6 miCremation provider · Alexis · (309) 482-6142
- Hinchliff-Pearson-West, Inc. Funeral Directors and Cremation Services9.1 miCremation provider · Galesburg · (309) 343-2101
- Watson Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory9.2 miCremation provider · Galesburg · (309) 342-1913
- Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Oneida · (309) 483-2323
- McGuire & Davies Funeral Home and Crematory14 miCremation provider · Monmouth · (309) 734-6008
- Turnbull Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Monmouth · (309) 734-2131
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