About Hess Graveyard
Hess Graveyard is a cemetery near Rothsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 1.6 mi southwest of Rothsville. The grounds sit at about 328 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2801225. The nearest other listed cemetery is Millway Mennonite Church Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Stradling Funeral Home - Akron in Akron, about 1.8 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 259 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Lancaster County dates to 1873. 3 of the 608 listings in Lancaster County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Rothsville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.17014, -76.23346
What Hess Graveyard 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
- Millway Mennonite Church CemeteryRothsville, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery0.4 mi
- Erb CemeteryRothsville, PACemetery0.8 mi
- Middle Creek Brethren CemeteryRothsville, PACemetery0.9 mi
- Salem Methodist CemeteryRothsville, PAMethodist cemetery1.2 mi
- Kemper - Landis GraveyardAkron, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Meadow Valley Old Order Mennonite CemeteryEphrata, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery1.3 mi
- Rothsville United Zion CemeteryRothsville, PACemetery1.5 mi
- Akron Lutheran CemeteryAkron, PALutheran cemetery1.5 mi
- Philip Roth CemeteryRothsville, PACemetery1.6 mi
- Hauck - Fry CemeteryEphrata, PACemetery1.7 mi
Funeral homes near Hess Graveyard
- Stradling Funeral Home - Akron1.8 miFuneral home · Akron · (717) 859-1230
- Gravenor Sipler Funeral & Cremation Centre, Inc.2.9 miCremation provider · Ephrata · (717) 733-6181
- Stradling Funeral Homes Inc3.2 miFuneral home · Ephrata · (717) 733-2472
- Eitnier Memorials3.5 miMonument dealer · Ephrata · (717) 733-0808
- Spacht-Snyder Family Funeral Home and Crematory4.0 miCremation provider · Lititz · (717) 626-2317
- Richard H Heisey Funeral Home4.1 miFuneral home · Lititz · (717) 626-2464
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