About Friends Cemetery
Friends Cemetery is a cemetery near Orion, Mercer County, Illinois. It lies about 7.9 mi east of Orion. The grounds sit at about 787 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 408757. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sherrard Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kirk Huggins & Esterdahl Funeral in Orion, about 7.9 mi away. It is one of 51 cemeteries we list in Mercer County, and 32 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Orion. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.31755, -90.52624
What Friends 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
- Sherrard CemeteryOrion, ILCemetery0.7 mi
- Quaker CemeteryOrion, ILQuaker cemetery0.7 mi
- German CemeteryOrion, ILCemetery1.1 mi
- Schoening Family CemeteryMilan, ILFamily cemetery1.5 mi
- Woods CemeteryMilan, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Preemption CemeteryMilan, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Cable Village CemeteryOrion, ILMunicipal cemetery2.9 mi
- Brushwood CemeteryOrion, ILCemetery4.0 mi
- Western CemeteryOrion, ILCemetery4.5 mi
- Beulah CemeteryCoal Valley, ILCemetery4.7 mi
Funeral homes near Friends Cemetery
- Kirk Huggins & Esterdahl Funeral7.9 miFuneral home · Orion · (309) 526-3325
- Trimble Funeral Home & Crematory8.8 miCremation provider · Coal Valley · (309) 799-7474
- Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory9.4 miCremation provider · Milan · (309) 756-5513
- Moline Monument Co.11 miMonument dealer · Moline · (309) 762-6014
- Esterdahl Mortuary and Crematory11 miCremation provider · Moline · (309) 736-7100
- Rafferty Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Moline · (309) 797-1900
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