About Rucker Cemetery
Rucker Cemetery is a cemetery near Canton, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It lies about 11 mi southeast of Canton. The grounds sit at about 220 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 676943. The nearest other listed cemetery is Pickett Cemetery, about 1.7 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Culpepper Funeral Services in Canton, about 10 mi away. It is one of 57 cemeteries we list in Yazoo County, and 45 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Canton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
32.74016, -90.13588
What Rucker 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
- Pickett CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery1.7 mi
- Knott CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery1.8 mi
- Ellison CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery2.0 mi
- Blaylock CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery2.0 mi
- Lacy CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery2.4 mi
- Bull CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery2.9 mi
- Brown CemeteryPickens, MSCemetery3.6 mi
- Mount Zion CemeteryCanton, MSCemetery3.8 mi
- Pepper CemeteryPickens, MSCemetery4.1 mi
- Humble Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church CemeteryCanton, MSBaptist cemetery4.8 mi
Funeral homes near Rucker Cemetery
- Culpepper Funeral Services10 miFuneral home · Canton · (601) 859-2031
- Family Memorial Funeral Services10 miFuneral home · Canton · (601) 859-1507
- Breeland Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Canton · (601) 859-3661
- Sadler Granite Works15 miMonument dealer · Bentonia · (662) 755-2678
- Scott Memorial Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Yazoo City · (662) 746-0046
- Century Funeral Home of Yazoo17 miFuneral home · Yazoo City · (662) 746-1732
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