About Rufus Cemetery
Rufus Cemetery is a cemetery near Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It lies about 8.4 mi southeast of Lenoir. The grounds sit at about 1,257 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1015125. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mulberry Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the north. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Chapel Of Rest in Lenoir, about 6.7 mi away. It is one of 53 cemeteries we list in Caldwell County, and 35 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lenoir. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.00096, -81.64371
What Rufus 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
- Mulberry CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery1.5 mi
- Edmisten CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery2.2 mi
- Moore CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery3.3 mi
- Greene CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery3.9 mi
- Rich CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery4.0 mi
- Greene CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery4.3 mi
- Globe CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery4.7 mi
- Moore CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery4.7 mi
- Estes CemeteryOld Johns River Road, Collettsville, NCCemetery4.8 mi
- Estes CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery5.9 mi
Funeral homes near Rufus Cemetery
- Chapel Of Rest6.7 miFuneral chapel · Lenoir · (828) 758-0906
- Ebony Funeral Service8.0 miFuneral home · Lenoir · (828) 758-1859
- Pendry's Lenoir Funeral Home9.3 miFuneral home · Lenoir · (828) 754-3441
- Carolina Cremation Service9.3 miCremation provider · Lenoir · (828) 754-3441
- Greer McElveen Funeral Home and Crematory9.3 miCremation provider · Lenoir · (828) 754-4521
- Evans Funeral Service & Crematory9.7 miCremation provider · Lenoir · (828) 754-7979
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