About Foster Cemetery
Foster Cemetery is a cemetery near Sweetwater, McMinn County, Tennessee. It lies about 7.9 mi east of Sweetwater. The grounds sit at about 965 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1284693. The nearest other listed cemetery is Oak Grove Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home in Athens, about 7.6 mi away. It is one of 129 cemeteries we list in McMinn County, and 88 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Sweetwater. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.58340, -84.59993
What Foster 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
- Oak Grove CemeterySweetwater, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Goddard CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.4 mi
- Pond Hill CemeteryAthens, TNChristian cemetery2.4 mi
- Beulah Chapel CemeterySweetwater, TNChurch cemetery2.6 mi
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church CemeterySweetwater, TNBaptist cemetery2.8 mi
- Union McMinn Baptist Church CemeterySweetwater, TNBaptist cemetery3.0 mi
- Lane CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.2 mi
- Fisher CemeterySweetwater, TNCemetery3.3 mi
- Small CemeterySweetwater, TNCemetery3.4 mi
- Buttram CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Foster Cemetery
- M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home7.6 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-1473
- Kyker Funeral Home7.9 miFuneral home · Sweetwater · (423) 337-5033
- Sweetwater Memory Chapel8.8 miFuneral home · Sweetwater · (423) 337-7773
- Laycock-Hobbs Funeral Home9.3 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-5361
- Good Samaritan Funeral Home9.7 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 405-5277
- Ziegler Funeral Home9.9 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-3123
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