About Upper Essex Cemetery
Upper Essex Cemetery is a cemetery near Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. It lies about 9.1 mi southeast of Tappahannock. The grounds sit at about 157 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1739469. The nearest other listed cemetery is Antioch Church Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Marks-Bristow Funeral Home in Tappahannock, about 8.7 mi away. It is one of 39 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Tappahannock. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
37.99085, -77.00317
What Upper Essex 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
- Antioch Church CemeteryTappahannock, VAChurch cemetery1.4 mi
- Griffin Family Burying GroundTappahannock, VACemetery1.7 mi
- Hermon Methodist Church CemeteryTappahannock, VAMethodist cemetery3.1 mi
- First Union Church CemeteryTappahannock, VAChurch cemetery3.6 mi
- New Mount Zion Baptist Church CemeteryTappahannock, VABaptist cemetery3.8 mi
- Rappahannock Indian Church CemeteryTappahannock, VAChurch cemetery4.2 mi
- Bethlehem Church CemeteryTappahannock, VAChurch cemetery4.9 mi
- Zion Baptist Church CemeteryMontross, VABaptist cemetery5.0 mi
- Carmel CemeteryMontross, VACemetery6.2 mi
- Mount Olive Church CemeteryBowling Green, VAChurch cemetery6.7 mi
Funeral homes near Upper Essex Cemetery
- Marks-Bristow Funeral Home8.7 miFuneral home · Tappahannock · (804) 443-2210
- Washington Funeral Home, Inc.9.5 miFuneral home · Tappahannock · (804) 443-3127
- Welch Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Montross · (804) 493-8770
- Weldon Fisher Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Warsaw · (804) 493-8444
- B W White Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Aylett · (804) 769-3130
- Bennett-Brooks Funeral Home, Incorporated16 miFuneral home · Port Royal · (804) 742-9999
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