Chambers County AlArchives Cemeteries.....Sharp Family Cemetery (Old Tomlinson Cemetery)
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Sharp Family Cemetery (Old Tomlinson Cemetery)
White Plains, Chambers County, AL
Transcribed Sept. 21, 2004
Hank Rogers - aueagle71@hotmail.com

Directions:
Hwy. 431 North, left onto Chambers Co. Rd. 162, Right onto Chambers Co. Rd. 
160,
one block on the left (behind mobile home on hill, gravel drive.)

**Corrections by the author in parentheses**


Toombstone inscription:
"James B. Tomlinson, was born Dec 6th 1806 & Died May 14th 1872."

Mary Jane Sharp
1851-1886

Lela Sharp
1875-1890

DC Sharp (Dewitt Clinton Sharp)
1850-1936

Kayron Sharp
1930-1937

Lilla R. Sharp
July 25, 1888
July 18, 1954

Herschel Sharp (Should be Hershal)
April 28, 1882
July 22, 1963

Thomas H. Maple
Feb. 8, 1920
Apr. 17, 1996
*Footstone inscription:"Beloved father of Carol & Karen."*
*Shared Headstone*
Allene Maple
Apr. 2, 1927
(no death date given)



**Notes: The cemetery is about 50 yards off of the road in the forest.
It is surrounded by a high chain link fence with barbed wire topper.
The gate stays locked for security.  Contact Hank Rogers at 
aueagle71@hotmail.com
for tour.

There are three family plots in this cemetery: Sharp, Maple & Earls; each 
with a
granite family headstone & outlined with brick or granite.  Each plot is 
covered
with pea gravel, and a large space outside the plots paved with concrete.  
The
concrete is very old, but origional date is unknbown to the author.

There are four unmarked graves in the Maple plot, but outlined in wood 
strips
partially obscured by the gravel.

There are no burials in the Earls plot at this time.

James Bentley Tomlinson, from whom the cemetery origionated & got it's name
(the land origionally owned by Tomlinson), is buried outside the family 
plots in
the paved area with a paved concrete grave cover.  His memorial is an 
obilisk about
three feet in length with the inscription above, now laying down on top of 
his grave paver.