About Barker Cemetery
Barker Cemetery is a cemetery near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois. It lies about 5.2 mi southwest of Shelbyville. 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 1725238. The nearest other listed cemetery is Caldwell Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Howe & Yockey Funeral Home Ltd in Shelbyville, about 5.2 mi away. It is one of 131 cemeteries we list in Shelby County, and 60 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, Shelbyville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.44836, -88.70839
What Barker 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
- Caldwell CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.5 mi
- Helton CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.8 mi
- Walden CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Hudson CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Middlesworth CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Mahoney CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Bethany CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery2.2 mi
- Root CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery2.6 mi
- Claridge CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Quigley CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery2.9 mi
Funeral homes near Barker Cemetery
- Howe & Yockey Funeral Home Ltd5.2 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-3931
- Lockart Green Funeral Homes5.5 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-2195
- Lovins Lockart Funeral Home6.0 miFuneral home · Windsor · (217) 459-2254
- Reed Funeral Home Ltd11 miFuneral home · Sullivan · (217) 728-2355
- Hoffman Burial Supplies12 miFuneral home · Sullivan · (217) 728-4069
- McMullin-Young Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Sullivan · (217) 728-4309
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