Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi

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.

Among them: 2 Civil War veterans, 2 governors, 1 football player, 1 US representative, 1 US senator, 1 World War II veteran.

• Stephen D. Lee1833-1908
  Confederate general
• Jesse Speight1795-1847
  American politician
• Henry L. Whitfield1868-1927
  American politician
• William Edwin Baldwin1827-1864
  Confederate Army general
• James Whitfield1791-1875
  American politician
• Cornell Franklin1892-1959
  American lawyer
• Billy Brewer1934-2018
  American football player and coach
• Jehu Amaziah Orr1828-1921
  American politician
• Dabney Lipscomb1859-1931
  American author
• Henry Edward Warden1915-2007
  Career officer in the United States Air Force
• Edward Brett Randolph1792-1848
  Soldier
• 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.

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.

• Saint Matthews Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Sandfield Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  1.9 mi
• Union Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  2.2 mi
• Stallion Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Greenlawn Memorial Park

  Columbus, MS
  Memorial park

  2.8 mi
• Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Baptist cemetery

  3.2 mi
• Memorial Gardens of Columbus

  Columbus, MS
  Memorial park

  3.5 mi
• Living Faith Tabernacle Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  4.0 mi
• Mount Ararat Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  4.9 mi
• Plymouth Cemetery

  Columbus, MS
  Cemetery

  5.0 mi

• Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory

  Cremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-4432
  1.0 mi
• Lee-Sykes Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Columbus · (662) 328-4335
  1.4 mi
• Century Hairston Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Columbus · (662) 328-1730
  1.4 mi
• Hairston & Hairston Funeral Homes

  Funeral home · Columbus · (662) 323-5854
  1.4 mi
• Carter's Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Columbus · (662) 327-1855
  1.5 mi
• Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory

  Cremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-1808
  4.4 mi

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