About Melson Cemetery
Melson Cemetery is a cemetery near Waynesboro, Wayne County, Tennessee. It lies about 12 mi northeast of Waynesboro. 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 1293560. The nearest other listed cemetery is Robbins Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Shackelford Funeral Directors in Collinwood, about 8.6 mi away. It is one of 217 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 108 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Waynesboro. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.17952, -87.89141
What Melson 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
- Robbins CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery0.4 mi
- Thompson CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery0.6 mi
- Lawson CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery2.0 mi
- Greeson Chapel CemeteryWaynesboro, TNChristian cemetery2.5 mi
- Copeland CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery2.6 mi
- Sinclair CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery2.8 mi
- Sinclair CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery3.0 mi
- Copeland CemeteryOlivet, TNCemetery3.2 mi
- Stribling CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery3.3 mi
- Horton CemeteryWaynesboro, TNCemetery3.4 mi
Funeral homes near Melson Cemetery
- Shackelford Funeral Directors8.6 miFuneral home · Collinwood · (931) 724-9132
- Bates-Love Funeral and Cremation11 miCremation provider · Waynesboro · (931) 722-6020
- Shackelford Funeral Directors12 miFuneral home · Waynesboro · (931) 722-5488
- Morrison Funeral Homes20 miFuneral home · Florence · (256) 766-2001
- Shackelford Funeral Directors20 miFuneral home · Savannah · (731) 925-4000
- Shackleford Funeral Directors20 miFuneral home · Savannah
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