About Harris Cemetery
Harris Cemetery is a cemetery near West Lynchburg, Amherst County, Virginia. It lies about 8.4 mi southeast of West Lynchburg. The grounds sit at about 853 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1467774. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Gilead Cemetery, about 1.8 mi to the south. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Diuguid Funeral Services & Crematory in Lynchburg, about 6.7 mi away. It is one of 45 cemeteries we list in Amherst County, and 31 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, West Lynchburg. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
37.51182, -79.24822
What Harris 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
- Mount Gilead CemeteryWest Lynchburg, VACemetery1.8 mi
- Fletcher CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery2.8 mi
- Hudson CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery3.8 mi
- Corner Stone Baptist Church CemeteryWest Lynchburg, VABaptist cemetery4.0 mi
- Ivy Hill CemeteryWest Lynchburg, VACemetery4.4 mi
- Watts CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery5.1 mi
- Scott CemeteryWest Lynchburg, VACemetery5.2 mi
- Hudson CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery5.8 mi
- Hicks CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery6.7 mi
- Gatewood CemeteryBuena Vista, VACemetery6.7 mi
Funeral homes near Harris Cemetery
- Diuguid Funeral Services & Crematory6.7 miCremation provider · Lynchburg · (434) 207-6008
- Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory7.5 miCremation provider · Madison Heights · (434) 929-0055
- Whitten Monelison Chapel7.5 miFuneral home · Madison Heights · (434) 929-5712
- Davis & Turner Funeral Services7.9 miFuneral home · Lynchburg · (434) 846-9011
- Tharp Funeral Home and Crematory8.4 miCremation provider · Lynchburg · (434) 237-9424
- Community Funeral Home8.5 miFuneral home · Lynchburg · (434) 847-7775
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