Pelham Cemetery

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Pelham Cemetery is a 5.25-acre historic cemetery located at the intersection of Industrial Park Drive and Bearden Road, just west of Pelham Parkway (U.S. Highway 31) in western Pelham. The oldest known graves date to the 1870s, though at least one marker memorializes a person who died in Shelby County in 1840. The cemetery is owned, maintained and operated by the City of Pelham.

In the 2010s then-Mayor Gary Waters began placing small U.S. flags at the graves of military veterans buried at Pelham Cemetery. The Matthew Blount Post 555 of the American Legion has worked with the Sons of the American Legion and Boy Scout Troop 404 to continue the practice.

The site was added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register in January 2021.

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