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A visit to the West Point 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 West Point Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The West Point Cemetery (FG ID #20121)

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 West Point Cemetery ...

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

Lat:   35.7112°   (35° 42' 40")

Lon:   -87.0519°   (-87° 3' 6")

The cemetery is located in Maury County<3>.

As an estimate, the West Point Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the west of Santa Fe.

The county seat for Maury County is located in Columbia. Columbia lies just to the south of the West Point Cemetery .

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 21 that are within 3 miles [4.8 km] of the West Point Cemetery.<4>

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

  • Vestal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vestal Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vestal Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Vestal Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vestal Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the west of Santa Fe.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #19727 <1>
  • Brown Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Dodson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dodson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dodson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Dodson Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Dodson Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #11390 <1>
  • Knob Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Old Knob Creek Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Haywood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • West Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The West Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the West Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20108 <1>
  • Watson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Watson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Watson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Watson Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Watson Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #19989 <1>
  • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fitzgerald Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fitzgerald Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Fitzgerald Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fitzgerald Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the east of Spring Hill.
    • The Fitzgerald Cemetery has also been known as:
    • G.H. Fitzgerald Cemetery
    • Green Fitzgerald Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #11977 <1>
  • Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
    • The Edmund Fitzgerald Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #11980 <1>
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taylor Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taylor Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Taylor Cemetery is located in Maury County
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Taylor Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the west of Santa Fe.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #19217 <1>
  • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Jocobs Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jocobs Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jocobs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Jocobs Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jocobs Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northwest of Santa Fe.
    • Mt. Wesley Akin Nazarene Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Godwin - Chappell UMC Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • 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.<5> 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 south of Columbia.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #12083 <1>
    • Miller Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Miller Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miller Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
      • The Miller Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Miller Family Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #15667 <1>
    • Voorhies Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Voorhies Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Voorhies Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Voorhies Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Voorhies Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the south of Columbia.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #19759 <1>
    • Lasting Hope Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Polk Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Polk Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Polk Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Polk Cemetery is located in Maury County
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Polk Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the northeast of Spring Hill.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2179410 <1>
    • Gravel Hill Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)

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 West Point Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from West Point 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 West Point Cemetery. The following communities are located in Maury County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The West Point 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 helpful 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 West Point 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 West Point Cemetery:

  • Referenced GNIS Record ...
  • GNIS ID #1646576  (West Point Cemetery)
    • Note: GNIS record #1646576 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: Godwin
    • County: Maury         Elev: 291
    • Location given for GNIS #1646576 (West Point Cemetery)
  • Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #20121

The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the West Point Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7112, Longitude: -87.0519    
<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>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.
<6>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.
<7>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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