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A visit to the Chaffin Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Chaffin Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Chaffin Cemetery (FG ID #10374)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Chaffin Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Chaffin Cemetery

Lat:   35.4623°   (35° 27' 44")

Lon:   -87.0820°   (-87° 4' 55")

The cemetery is located in Maury County<3>.

As an estimate, the Chaffin Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<2> to the northwest of Mount Pleasant.

The county seat for Maury County is located in Columbia. Columbia lies 10 miles [16.1 km] to the north northeast of the Chaffin Cemetery .

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 27 that are within 4 miles [6.4 km] of the Chaffin Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Chaffin Cemetery, with the nearest first.

  • Gilmore Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Logue Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hubbell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hubbell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hubbell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Hubbell Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hubbell Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the north of Columbia.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #13708 <1>
  • Perry - Pillow Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Perry - Pillow Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Perry - Pillow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Perry - Pillow Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Perry - Pillow Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the north of Columbia.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #17013 <1>
  • McKissick Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Chaffin Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Murphy Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murphy Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Murphy Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Murphy Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Murphy Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the northwest of Mount Pleasant.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #16123 <1>
  • Gilbreath - Morrow Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilbreath - Morrow Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gilbreath - Morrow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Gilbreath - Morrow Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gilbreath - Morrow Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the northwest of Mount Pleasant.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #12373 <1>
  • Howell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Howell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Howell Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Howell Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the northwest of Mount Pleasant.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #13701 <1>
  • Elk Ridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elk Ridge Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elk Ridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Elk Ridge Cemetery is located in Giles County
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Hope Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The New Hope Cemetery is located in Giles County
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Gooch Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gooch Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gooch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Gooch Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gooch Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the north of Columbia.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #12471 <1>
    • Hogan Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hogan Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hogan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Hogan Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hogan Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the north of Columbia.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #13465 <1>
    • Foster Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Foster Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Foster Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Foster Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Foster Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the northeast of Culleoka.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #12080 <1>
    • Richardson Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richardson Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Richardson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Richardson Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Richardson Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the northeast of Culleoka.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #17748 <1>
    • New Ramey Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Lee Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lee Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Lee Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lee Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the east of Culleoka.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #14629 <1>
    • Howard Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Reeses Chapel Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Wortham Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Murphy Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murphy Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Murphy Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Murphy Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Murphy Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the northwest of Mount Pleasant.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #16124 <1>
    • Gipsonville Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gipsonville Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gipsonville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Gipsonville Cemetery is located in Giles County
    • Akers - Brown Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Akers - Brown Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Akers - Brown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Akers - Brown Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Akers - Brown Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the northeast of Culleoka.
      • The Akers - Brown Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Wiliamson Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8523 <1>
    • Mack Family Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mack Family Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mack Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Mack Family Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mack Family Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the southeast of Culleoka.
      • The Mack Family Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Walker Cemetery
      • Walker Family Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #19843 <1>
    • Hopewell Presbyterian Church Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Perry Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Perry Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Perry Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Perry Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Perry Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the north of Columbia.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #17003 <1>

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 27 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km] of the Chaffin Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Chaffin Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Chaffin Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Maury County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Chaffin Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Chaffin Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Chaffin Cemetery:

  • Referenced GNIS Record ...
  • GNIS ID #1280193  (Chaffin Cemetery)
    • Note: GNIS record #1280193 has been archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website.
    • Class: cemetery         Map Name: Lynnville
    • County: Maury         Elev: 259
    • Location given for GNIS #1280193 (Chaffin Cemetery)
  • Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #10374

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Chaffin Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4623, Longitude: -87.0820    
<3>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Maury, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<7>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.