About Drake Cemetery
Drake Cemetery is a cemetery near Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee. It lies about 6.6 mi east of Spencer. The grounds sit at about 974 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1282774. The nearest other listed cemetery is Crain Hill Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Layne Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Spencer, about 6.9 mi away. It is one of 27 cemeteries we list in Van Buren County, and 44 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Spencer. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.72062, -85.57914
What Drake 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
- Crain Hill CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery0.7 mi
- New Rocky CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery1.3 mi
- Long CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Boyd CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery2.6 mi
- Laurel Creek CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery3.1 mi
- Mount Vernon CemeteryMcMinnville, TNCemetery3.5 mi
- Hillis CemeteryMcMinnville, TNCemetery3.7 mi
- O'Neal CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery4.1 mi
- Friendship CemeteryMcMinnville, TNCemetery4.3 mi
- White Hill CemeterySpencer, TNCemetery4.4 mi
Funeral homes near Drake Cemetery
- Layne Funeral Home & Cremation Services6.9 miFuneral home · Spencer · (931) 946-4444
- Spencer Funeral Home7.2 miFuneral home · Spencer · (931) 946-7444
- High Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · McMinnville · (931) 473-2137
- McMinnville Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · McMinnville · (931) 473-6606
- Hunter Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Sparta · (931) 836-3211
- Thurman Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Sparta · (931) 836-3194
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