Gray Branch Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery

Lenoir County, NC

Surveyed by Glenn Fields May 2008




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Gray Branch Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery in Lenoir County, NC.

Location On Gray Branch Church Rd between Old Pink Hill Rd and Eric Sparrow Rd.

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    The epitaphs are as follows:

    Double Stone Deaver Maggie A Sep 28 1904 Apr 4 1996 Dewey D Mar 15 1900 Jun 1 1972 Double Stone Deaver Isariah Deaver Nov 20 1877 May 15 1953 Peter Deaver Jun 15 1877 Feb 1 1966 Double Stone Stroud Fleta D Sep 3 1921 Oct 17 2007 E Vance May 25 1920 Sep 16 1996 Thurman Wiley Aug 13 1913 Apr 10 1986 Double Stone Deaver Minnie A Jul 22 1908 Jun 6 1981 Avender C Feb 12 1902 Sep 18 1990 Double Stone Hines Isaac Mar 29 1921 Sep 13 1977 Annie Belle D Jul 23 1926 Jan 1 2005 Horace Lee Infant son of Mr & Mrs Isaac Hines Born & Died Jan 12 1946 Norris Ray Infant Son of Mr & Mrs Isaac Hines Jan 4 1945 Jan 7 1945 Mamie Thigpen Gillette Apr 2 1915 Oct 1 1985 Double Stone Thompson James Thompson 1860-1942 Janie Deaver 1880-NOD Emma Y Burris 1901-1957 Double Stone King Bettie S Oct 17 1900 Feb 17 1984 Charlie S Dec 8 1895 May 8 1963 Walter King Jan 23 1920 NOD Double Stone Gray Jean W Aug 1 1931 Jan 11 1991 Donald A Oct 6 1931 NOD Sudie Thigpen Mar 3 1889 Feb 21 1972 Double Stone Deaver Alvin Vernon Jun 19 1905 Jan 12 1986 Lala Mae May 29 1915 NOD Olivia W Coombs Sep 9 1920 Oct 10 2000 Stanley Coombs Jul 22 1916 Feb 5 1986 Barbara Ann Daughter of Stanley & Olivia Coombs Apr 16 1950 Feb 22 1955 Double Stone Cauley Milton R Nov 7 1913 Nov 26 1997 Mildred H Mar 23 1921 Dec 5 2002 Cynthia Daughter of Mildred & Milton Cauley Nov 30 1954 Sep 14 1955 Double Stone Hines Ada D May 28 1917 May 23 2000 Benjamin F Oct 29 1917 Feb 11 1991 John D Thigpen US Marine Corps PFC US Army World War II Jun 12 1917 Apr 3 2006 Double Stone Thigpen Geneva B Jun 2 1927 NOD John D Jun 12 1917 Apr 3 2006 Arminta Wife of R E Collier Jul 1 1880 Nov 2 1951 Mary Dixon Hines Jun 4 1909 Aug 14 1997 J James Hines Jr Jun 25 1914 Jan 29 1970 Kathleen M Johnson Jul 10 1917 Apr 7 2000 Nellie Irene Wife of J J Hines Feb 3 1892 Nov 20 1935 Jesse J Hines Sr Oct 12 1890 Nov 28 1955 Minnie Bruce Hill Wife of J J Hines Sr Nov 8 1916 Feb 23 1969 Felton Davis Mar 28 1922 Aug 17 1956 Arthur Davis Apr 20 1917 Mar 6 1991 Double Stone Deaver Sarah Hines Apr 10 1924 NOD Arthur A Oct 25 1921 Feb 20 1991 Elizabeth Daughter of Jacob & Victoria Deaver Oct 19 1925 NOD Victoria Carter Wife of Jacob Deaver Jul 4 1889 May 27 1947 Jacob J Deaver May 13 1883 Nov 13 1964 Double Stone Deaver Adelle T Nov 3 1908 Jun 9 2003 Rodolph Apr 13 1907 Sep 6 1978 Carrie Riggs Heath Mar 6 1903 Sep 15 1978 Ashley Heath Dec 25 1900 Jun 5 1974 Elton Ray Heath Jun 14 1930 May 31 1970 Rubert Hines Feb 29 1904 Feb 18 1977 Double Stone Hines Joel Edward Sr Sep 12 1925 Jun 10 2003 Ruth Waters Dec 5 1929 NOD Joel Randall Son of J E & Ruth Hines Aug 13 1952 Aug 23 1952 Double Stone Moody Vivian E Jan 4 1947 NOD Married Oct 5 1963 Raymond L Dec 2 1938 Nov 4 2005 Double Stone Moody Janie Jan 23 1909 NOD Willie Sep 11 1909 Nov 19 1970 Double Stone Moody Kathleen Jun 1 1912 Nov 8 1980 Herman Jul 6 1912 Mar 29 1962 Mary Taylor Byrd Jul 14 1895 Jan 22 1990 Double Stone Moody Dorothy Byrd Nov 13 1921 Apr 7 2002 Kirby May 10 1919 Jan 4 2000 Double Stone Clarisa Merritt May 16 1929 NOD Durwood Merritt TEC4 US Army World War II Oct 8 1919 Oct 15 1992 Henry L Boyette Oct 16 1934 Oct 9 1972 Double Stone Boyette Clarence 1901-1957 Laura Williams 1907-1991 Rachel R Harper Jan 25 1912 Jan 17 2000 Ronel C Harper US Army World War II Aug 31 1913 Oct 21 1981 Fonnie M Stroud Harper Oct 9 1910 Apr 15 1987 MM Norman Earl Grady Mar 6 1957 Apr 14 2006 Infant daughter of R C & Fonnie M Harper Dec 17 1949 NOD MM Ronald L Harper 1 day old 1957 NOI Double Stone Coley Gertrude D Jun 2 1918 May 9 1998 Jack May 19 1913 Jun 15 1983 Mildred E Coley Thomas Nov 16 1938 Sep 1 2005 Double Stone Lambert Cammie Langston May 17 1880 Jul 1 1954 Charlie Everett Apr 11 1888 Oct 27 1965 Double Stone Deaver Alice Marie Moody Aug 30 1938 Sep 10 1998 Elwood Delmas Sep 20 1937 NOD Henry Norman Skinner May 6 1895 Sep 15 1960 Paul Collier North Carolina PFC US Army World War II Mar 17 1906 Mar 7 1971 Double Stone Deaver Peggy Smith Oct 18 1940 NOD Gurnice Earl May 30 1935 NOD

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