About Shemwell Cemetery
Shemwell Cemetery is a cemetery near Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky. It lies about 6.5 mi east of Benton. The nearest other listed cemetery is Holmes Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Collier Funeral Home in Benton, about 6.3 mi away. It is one of 126 cemeteries we list in Marshall County, and 133 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Benton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.84310, -88.46621
What Shemwell 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
- Holmes CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery0.8 mi
- Vanzora Church CemeteryBenton, KYChurch cemetery1.4 mi
- Oak Level CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery1.7 mi
- New Sand Hill CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery1.9 mi
- Bondurant CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery2.0 mi
- Farmer CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery2.0 mi
- Burkhart CemeteryMayfield, KYCemetery2.6 mi
- Buckhard CemeteryMayfield, KYCemetery2.6 mi
- Washam CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery2.7 mi
- Hunt CemeteryBenton, KYCemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Shemwell Cemetery
- Collier Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Benton · (270) 527-3141
- Burns Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Mayfield
- Byrn Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Mayfield · (270) 247-3592
- Brown Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Mayfield · (270) 247-0077
- Hughes Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Paducah · (270) 415-1885
- Milner & Orr Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Paducah · (270) 534-4200
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