About Benton Cemetery
Benton Cemetery is a cemetery near Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina. It lies about 13 mi north of Clinton. The grounds sit at about 131 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1004200. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Zion AME Zion Church Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southeast. The nearest mortuary we know of is Summerville-Boykin Mortuary in Garland, about 9.1 mi away. It is one of 102 cemeteries we list in Sampson County, and 28 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Clinton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
34.82537, -78.23914
What Benton 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
- Mount Zion AME Zion Church CemeteryClinton, NCMethodist cemetery0.5 mi
- Spearman CemeteryClinton, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Snipes CemeteryClinton, NCCemetery1.6 mi
- Merritt Memorial CemeteryClinton, NCChristian cemetery2.2 mi
- Evergreen Baptist Church CemeteryRose Hill, NCBaptist cemetery2.3 mi
- Merritt CemeteryClinton, NCCemetery3.3 mi
- Watson CemeteryRose Hill, NCCemetery3.4 mi
- Red Hill Universalist Church CemeteryClinton, NCChurch cemetery3.4 mi
- Johnson CemeteryRose Hill, NCCemetery3.6 mi
- Carter CemeteryRose Hill, NCCemetery3.7 mi
Funeral homes near Benton Cemetery
- Summerville-Boykin Mortuary9.1 miMortuary · Garland · (910) 529-1341
- Carter Funeral Home Inc9.1 miFuneral home · Garland · (910) 529-4001
- Rose Hill Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Rose Hill · (910) 289-3232
- Worley Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Clinton · (910) 592-8175
- Crumpler-Honeycutt Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Clinton · (910) 592-2066
- Royal-hall Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Clinton · (910) 592-4127
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