About Benscoter Cemetery
Benscoter Cemetery is a cemetery near Glen Lyon, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 5.9 mi southeast of Glen Lyon. The grounds sit at about 1,122 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2800329. The nearest other listed cemetery is Marvin Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Charles L. Cease Funeral Home in Shickshinny, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 280 cemeteries we list in Luzerne County, and 86 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Glen Lyon. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.22924, -76.16303
What Benscoter 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
- Marvin CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery0.9 mi
- Bloomingdale CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Benscoter Family CemeteryGlen Lyon, PAFamily cemetery1.8 mi
- Saint Casimir's CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery2.0 mi
- Bee Tree CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery2.7 mi
- Oakdale CemeteryNanticoke, PAMethodist cemetery2.7 mi
- Broadway CemeteryBack Mountain, PACemetery2.9 mi
- Sorber CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery3.3 mi
- Harrison CemeteryGlen Lyon, PACemetery3.5 mi
- Sweet Valley CemeteryBack Mountain, PACemetery3.8 mi
Funeral homes near Benscoter Cemetery
- Charles L. Cease Funeral Home0.2 miFuneral home · Shickshinny · (570) 256-7201
- Piatt Clarke Funeral Home Inc1.6 miFuneral home · Hunlock Creek · (570) 256-3141
- Piatt Funeral and Cremation2.7 miCremation provider · Hunlock Creek · (570) 256-3141
- Clark Piatt Funeral Home2.7 miFuneral home · Glen Lyon
- Mayo Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Shickshinny · (570) 542-4214
- George A. Strish Inc. Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Glen Lyon · (570) 736-6218
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