(Submitted on September 26, 2011, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.)Ģ. 9.6 miles away) Shiloh Baptist Church (approx. 9½ miles away) Office of Joel Desaker Jones (approx.
5.4 miles away) Williams’ Temple CME Church (approx.
5.4 miles away) Thomasville War Memorial (approx. 4.9 miles away) Thomasville's Early History (approx. At least 7 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Marker is in this post office area: Thomasville AL 36784, United States of America. Marker is on State Highway 5, one mile south of State Route 25, on the right when traveling south. Marker is near Thomasville, Alabama, in Clarke County. A significant historical year for this entry is 1853. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. In 2009 Hope Family Properties deeded the cemetery to the Clarke County Historical Society. Turner Charitable Trust, the Alabama Historical Commission, the Hope family, Louis M. Restoration of the shelter was completed by Charlie Bulloch of Greene County in 2002 through efforts of the Clarke County Historical Society, the Thomas L. Graves in the fenced area of the cemetery date from the 1840’s and contain family names of Hope, Houston, Murley, Gildersleeve, Easterling, Kennedy, Champion, Jones, Baugh, Steed, and Lowry. The shelter covers graves of six members of the family of John Hope, who donated the fenced area of the cemetery and the adjoining site of Airmount Church to the Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America in 1862. The unusual splayed eaves and vaulted or “compass” interior ceiling can be traced to Eastern Seaboard church yards in Delaware and Virginia, and this is believed to the only grave shelter of its type in Alabama. Constructed in 1853, it is listed on the National Register of Historical places. This Greek Revival style brick structure is known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter. , Restoration of the shelter was completed by Charlie Bulloch of Greene County in 2002 through efforts of the Clarke County Historical Society, the Thomas L. , (Continued on other side), Reverse:, (Continued from other side), Graves in the fenced area of the cemetery date from the 1840’s and contain family names of Hope, Houston, Murley, Gildersleeve, Easterling, Kennedy, Champion, Jones, Baugh, Steed, and Lowry. , Front:, This Greek Revival style brick structure is known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter.
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