About Friendship Cemetery
Friendship Cemetery is a cemetery near Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. It lies about 0.9 mi north of Columbus. Wikidata records 12 notable people buried here, including Stephen D. Lee, Jesse Speight and Henry L. Whitfield. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Matthews Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the west. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory in Columbus, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 39 cemeteries we list in Lowndes County, and 23 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Columbus. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Friendship Cemetery
Among them: 2 Civil War veterans, 2 governors, 1 football player, 1 US representative, 1 US senator, 1 World War II veteran.
- Stephen D. Lee1833-1908Confederate general
- Jesse Speight1795-1847American politician
- Henry L. Whitfield1868-1927American politician
- William Edwin Baldwin1827-1864Confederate Army general
- James Whitfield1791-1875American politician
- Cornell Franklin1892-1959American lawyer
- Billy Brewer1934-2018American football player and coach
- Jehu Amaziah Orr1828-1921American politician
- Dabney Lipscomb1859-1931American author
- Henry Edward Warden1915-2007Career officer in the United States Air Force
- Edward Brett Randolph1792-1848Soldier
- Regina Lily Harrison1841-1903
People whose Wikidata entry gives Friendship Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
33.48227, -88.43048
What Friendship 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
- Saint Matthews CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery1.4 mi
- Sandfield CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery1.9 mi
- Union CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery2.2 mi
- Stallion CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery2.3 mi
- Greenlawn Memorial ParkColumbus, MSMemorial park2.8 mi
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church CemeteryColumbus, MSBaptist cemetery3.2 mi
- Memorial Gardens of ColumbusColumbus, MSMemorial park3.5 mi
- Living Faith Tabernacle CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery4.0 mi
- Mount Ararat CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery4.9 mi
- Plymouth CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery5.0 mi
Funeral homes near Friendship Cemetery
- Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory1.0 miCremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-4432
- Lee-Sykes Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 328-4335
- Century Hairston Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 328-1730
- Hairston & Hairston Funeral Homes1.4 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 323-5854
- Carter's Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 327-1855
- Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory4.4 miCremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-1808
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