About Shepard Cemetery
Shepard Cemetery is a cemetery near Mars Hill, Yancey County, North Carolina. It lies about 7.1 mi west of Mars Hill. The nearest other listed cemetery is Rathburn Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Yancey Funeral Services in Burnsville, about 7.1 mi away. It is one of 406 cemeteries we list in Yancey County, and 436 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mars Hill. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.85084, -82.42681
What Shepard 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
- Rathburn CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Victory CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.9 mi
- Maney CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Metcalf CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Austin Robinson CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Tildon Metcalf CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.4 mi
- Robertson CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.5 mi
- Brown CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.5 mi
- Brown Ray CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.5 mi
- Blankenship CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.6 mi
Funeral homes near Shepard Cemetery
- Yancey Funeral Services7.1 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 678-9962
- Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service8.2 miCremation provider · Mars Hill · (828) 680-9963
- Blue Ridge Funeral Home8.2 miFuneral home · Mars Hill
- Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 682-2310
- West Family Funeral Services13 miFuneral home · Weaverville · (828) 645-3011
- Madison Funeral Services13 miFuneral home · Marshall · (828) 649-9163
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