About Dismal Cemetery
Dismal Cemetery is a cemetery near Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee. It lies about 9.5 mi southeast of Smithville. The grounds sit at about 630 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2710663. The nearest other listed cemetery is Robinson Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Avant Funeral Home in Alexandria, about 5.1 mi away. It is one of 184 cemeteries we list in DeKalb County, and 145 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Smithville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.03669, -85.95527
What Dismal 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
- Robinson CemeterySmithville, TNCemetery0.6 mi
- Thomas Driver CemeteryGordonsville, TNCemetery0.7 mi
- Driver CemeteryGordonsville, TNCemetery0.8 mi
- Dowelltown CemeterySmithville, TNCemetery1.4 mi
- Gray CemeterySmithville, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Oakley CemeteryGordonsville, TNCemetery1.9 mi
- Scott CemeteryWatertown, TNCemetery2.0 mi
- Johnson CemeteryGordonsville, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Tubb CemeteryGordonsville, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Griffith CemeteryWatertown, TNCemetery2.2 mi
Funeral homes near Dismal Cemetery
- Avant Funeral Home5.1 miFuneral home · Alexandria · (615) 529-2323
- Love-Cantrell Funeral Home9.5 miFuneral home · Smithville · (615) 597-5275
- Bass Funeral Home9.5 miFuneral home · Gordonsville · (615) 683-8212
- De Kalb Funeral Chapel Llc9.9 miFuneral chapel · Smithville · (615) 597-9400
- Hunter Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Watertown · (615) 237-9318
- Bass Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Carthage
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