About Loving Cemetery
Loving Cemetery is a cemetery near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It lies about 8.0 mi south of Amherst. The grounds sit at about 797 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1485104. The nearest other listed cemetery is Beard Cemetery, about 1.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Driskill Funeral Chapel in Amherst, about 7.3 mi away. It is one of 45 cemeteries we list in Amherst County, and 36 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Amherst County dates to 1850.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Amherst. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
37.69673, -79.08886
What Loving 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
- Beard CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.2 mi
- Tucker CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.2 mi
- Carpenter CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.3 mi
- Parr CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.5 mi
- Steele CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.9 mi
- Fulcher CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery2.0 mi
- Mays CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery2.2 mi
- Cash CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery2.3 mi
- Higginbotham CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery2.9 mi
- Thompson CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Loving Cemetery
- Driskill Funeral Chapel7.3 miFuneral chapel · Amherst · (434) 946-5529
- Byrum-Parr Funeral Home Inc7.5 miFuneral home · Roseland · (434) 277-5194
- Wells/Sheffield Funeral Chapel13 miFuneral chapel · Lovingston · (434) 263-4097
- Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory15 miCremation provider · Madison Heights · (434) 929-0055
- Whitten Monelison Chapel16 miFuneral home · Madison Heights · (434) 929-5712
- Lomax Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Buena Vista · (540) 261-6585
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