Grave Houses
The Shiloh Cemetery is located at the Shiloh Independent Methodist Church in Tippah County, Mississippi
In April 2009 there were 11 graveshelters dating from the 1920s to the present.
A new shelter was under construction to be completed in May 2009. There are other southern folk cemetery characteristics such as an overhead entrance gateway, scraped & mounded graves, shell covered graves, bottle lined grave, flowers displayed the length of the grave, feet to the east internment, borders around family plots, use of cemetery plants and a annual decoration day.
GPS N34-50-010 W088-47-141
Shiloh Cemetery is continued on page 38
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