Cemetery: Shannon Road Cemetery
Other: Cemetery on the side of the road on south end of Shannon Rd.
Sign: No
Street: approx. 4/10 mile from hwy 150 on right
City: Bessemer, Alabama
Township: Bessemer/Shannon road
County: Jefferson
State: Alabama
Nation: USA
Zip: 35020
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: Hwy 150 S. to Shannon Rd. approx 1500' to 1600' from Hwy 150 on right in hollow. There is a 
marker for the Nat'l Geodetic Survey Dept. of Commerce #1947(247,N.O.A.A) at the site.
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: No
Features: Trees, small, natural water drainage area
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: None
Established: earliest found marker 1935
Gravestones: 75
Oldest: approx. 1935
Newest: 1962
Removed: Yes
Relocated: Unsure
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: No
Association: Unsure
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Availability: 
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: Yes
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: No
Native: No
Slate: No
Others: Yes
Wood: Yes
Materials: No
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: No
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: No
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Yes
Pollution: Yes
Vandalized: Yes
Report: Yes
VA1: Gravestones-Overturned
VA2: Gravestones-Broken
VA3: Gravestones-Stolen
VA4: 
VA5: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: 
Overgrowth1: 
Overgrowth2: 
Overgrowth3: 
Overgrowth4: 
GroundCover: Yes
Moss: Yes
Vines: Yes
Drainage: Problem-Constant
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: 
Owner: Unknown
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Transportation
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: Bessemer Police Dept, who was barely aware it existed.

Surnames:

Only known to those who know it is there as Shannon Road Cemetery

Other_Information:

This Cemetary is nothing more than a wooded area alongside the road. County road work has possibly 
covered some graves with grading materials, leaving some graves covered by the roads shoulder. This area 
is also littered and graves are sunk in and probably from the colapse of coffins and caskets. There is 
evidence of what was once a standing mausoleum, but has long since fallen and decayed and is covered by 
underbrush within the middle of the drainage way. There is also one crypt that has a grave alongside that 
has collapsed approx 4' exposing the soil and the side of said crypt. This is also a resting place for WWI 
and WWII war veterans. Also possibly *Confederate soldiers, (*only through speculation from one grave 
marker that remains that suggests such).

Support:

Im open also for suggestions. Not sure where to start other that here.

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name: Scott Quihuis
Email: s_cott1268@charter.net
Date: 4/14/03