About Porter - Ward Cemetery
Porter - Ward Cemetery is a cemetery near Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee. It lies about 5.9 mi north of Spring City. The grounds sit at about 705 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1298271. The nearest other listed cemetery is Smith Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Vaughn Funeral Home in Spring City, about 5.9 mi away. It is one of 104 cemeteries we list in Rhea County, and 112 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Spring City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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35.61062, -84.82966
What Porter - Ward 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
- Smith CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery0.7 mi
- Porter CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery0.8 mi
- Sims CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery1.4 mi
- Cooke CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Ewing CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Smith - Wilkey CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery1.9 mi
- Jolley CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.5 mi
- Wolf Creek CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.6 mi
- Leuty CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery2.7 mi
- Forest Grove CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Porter - Ward Cemetery
- Vaughn Funeral Home5.9 miFuneral home · Spring City · (423) 365-5221
- Decatur Funeral Home & Cremation Services6.7 miFuneral home · Decatur · (423) 334-3661
- Coulter-Garrison Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Dayton · (423) 775-2444
- Vanderwall Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Dayton · (423) 775-2662
- Vaugh Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Dayton
- M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-1473
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