About Willow Mount Cemetery
Willow Mount Cemetery is a cemetery near Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee. It lies about 0.9 mi southeast of Shelbyville. The grounds sit at about 794 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 8 notable people buried here, including Edmund Cooper, Lewis Tillman and Sumner Archibald Cunningham. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1274773. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Ararat Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Gowen-Smith Chapel in Shelbyville, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 424 cemeteries we list in Bedford County, and 246 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Shelbyville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Willow Mount Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 1 football player, 1 basketball player, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 journalist, 1 writer.
- Edmund Cooper1821-1911American politician
- Lewis Tillman1816-1886American politician
- Sumner Archibald Cunningham1843-1913American Confederate veteran and editor
- Johnny Floyd1891-1965American football and basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator
- Charlie Coffey1934-2015American football coach
- Thomas H. Coldwell1822-1891Former Attorney general of Tennessee
- Helen Crawford Marsh1921-2017Genealogist
- Timothy Richard Marsh1921-2013Genealogist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Willow Mount Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
35.49045, -86.47346
What Willow Mount 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 Ararat CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery0.2 mi
- Mc Cuistion CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery0.8 mi
- Cowan CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.1 mi
- Old Shelbyville City CemeteryShelbyville, TNMunicipal cemetery1.1 mi
- Brown CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.1 mi
- Bell CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.2 mi
- Jennings CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.4 mi
- Mc Cuistion CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Talley CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Phillips CemeteryShelbyville, TNCemetery1.6 mi
Funeral homes near Willow Mount Cemetery
- Gowen-Smith Chapel0.3 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (931) 684-1372
- Doak-Howell Funeral Home and Cremation Services0.8 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (931) 684-5011
- Nelson and Sons Memorial Chapel0.8 miFuneral chapel · Shelbyville · (931) 685-4200
- All Seasons Monuments1.0 miMonument dealer · Shelbyville · (931) 684-3904
- Feldhaus Memorial Chapel2.1 miFuneral chapel · Shelbyville · (931) 684-8356
- Hillcrest Funeral Home & Cemetery3.5 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (931) 684-2265
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