About Rising Sun Cemetery
Rising Sun Cemetery is a cemetery near Tunica, Tunica County, Mississippi. It lies about 12 mi north of Tunica. The grounds sit at about 177 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 676673. The nearest other listed cemetery is Berea Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Brown's Home For Funerals in Helena, about 11 mi away. It is one of 44 cemeteries we list in Tunica County, and 31 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Tunica. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
34.51760, -90.39287
What Rising Sun 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
- Berea CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery1.6 mi
- Bradley CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery2.5 mi
- Dowd CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery2.8 mi
- Church of God CemeteryTunica, MSChurch cemetery2.9 mi
- Mount Sinia CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery3.8 mi
- Daygo CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery4.4 mi
- Dooley Wood CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery4.5 mi
- Walton CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery4.9 mi
- Mount Olive CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery5.5 mi
- Whites CemeteryTunica, MSCemetery5.7 mi
Funeral homes near Rising Sun Cemetery
- Brown's Home For Funerals11 miFuneral home · Helena · (870) 338-7700
- Nowell Memorial Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Tunica · (662) 363-1233
- Henderson Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Tunica · (662) 363-2531
- Woolf Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Tunica · (662) 363-2661
- J&C Grant Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Tunica · (662) 363-2058
- Roller-Citizens Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · West Helena · (870) 572-2571
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
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