About Lear Cemetery
Lear Cemetery is a cemetery near Edina, Knox County, Missouri. It lies about 14 mi northwest of Edina. The grounds sit at about 745 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2777512. The nearest other listed cemetery is Rouner-Minor Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Coder Chapel in La Belle, about 8.3 mi away. It is one of 53 cemeteries we list in Knox County, and 26 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Knox County dates to 1853.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Edina. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.01389, -91.99524
What Lear 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
- Rouner-Minor CemeteryEdina, MO · est. 1853Christian cemetery0.6 mi
- Newark CemeteryShelbyville, MOCemetery1.3 mi
- Old Newark Baptist Church CemeteryShelbyville, MOBaptist cemetery1.6 mi
- Washburn CemeteryEdina, MOCemetery2.0 mi
- Downing CemeteryShelbyville, MOCemetery2.0 mi
- Nelson CemeteryShelbyville, MOCemetery2.4 mi
- Glover CemeteryMonticello, MOCemetery2.4 mi
- Mount Salem CemeteryShelbyville, MOCemetery3.4 mi
- Snell CemeteryEdina, MOCemetery4.0 mi
- Anderson CemeteryShelbyville, MOCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Lear Cemetery
- Coder Chapel8.3 miFuneral home · La Belle · (660) 213-3225
- Hudson-Rimer Funeral Chapel14 miFuneral chapel · Edina · (660) 397-2233
- Doss Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Edina · (660) 397-3300
- Ball-Davis Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Ewing · (573) 494-3203
- Greening Eagan and Hayes Funeral23 miFuneral home · Shelbina · (573) 588-4134
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