About Union Cemetery
Union Cemetery is a cemetery near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois. It lies about 8.8 mi northwest of Shelbyville. The grounds sit at about 630 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1725338. The nearest other listed cemetery is Graybill Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Brummerstedt Funeral Home in Stewardson, about 5.1 mi away. It is one of 131 cemeteries we list in Shelby County, and 53 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
39.29542, -88.71084
What Union 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
- Graybill CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.5 mi
- Rockford CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.4 mi
- Mount Zion CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.7 mi
- Fortner CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery3.9 mi
- Gallagher Chapel CemeteryShelbyville, ILChurch cemetery4.2 mi
- Howe CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery4.2 mi
- Giles CemeteryEffingham, ILCemetery4.7 mi
- Stewardson CemeteryEffingham, ILCemetery4.8 mi
- Wolf Creek CemeteryEffingham, ILCemetery4.9 mi
- Saint Paul CemeteryWindsor, ILCemetery4.9 mi
Funeral homes near Union Cemetery
- Brummerstedt Funeral Home5.1 miFuneral home · Stewardson · (217) 682-3822
- Lockart Green Funeral Homes8.9 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-2195
- Howe & Yockey Funeral Home Ltd9.1 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-3931
- Lovins Lockart Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Windsor · (217) 459-2254
- Bauer Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Effingham · (217) 342-2177
- Swengel-O'Dell Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Neoga · (217) 895-2214
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