Shorter Cemetery

The Shorter Cemetery in Eufaula, Alabama is a Civil War era cemetery where Governor John Gill Shorter, his family (including his father, the General Reuben Clark Shorter), and his family's slaves are buried. The cemetery is located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in the middle of downtown Eufaula, on a bluff overlooking Lake Eufaula near the Shorter home, which burned in 1885. In 2010, the cemetery was listed as one of Alabama's most endangered sites by the Alabama Historical Commission and Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation due to vandalism and natural deterioration of the tombstones, statues, walls, and fencing.