Palmer Cemetery

Lenoir County, NC

Surveyed by Glenn Fields July 2008




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Palmer Cemetery in Lenoir County, NC.

Location at the intersection of Queen St and W Railroad St. in LaGrange

African American Cemetery

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    The epitaphs are as follows:

    Page 1 Elizabeth A. Barnes Jan 10 1879 Sept 11 1962 Hardy Barnes Sept 18 1894 Aug 15 1953 Hardy Barnes PVT CO B 365 INF 92 DIV World War I Sept 18 1894 August 15 1953 Wooden marker, unreadable Broken stone, unreadable Sturney Atmore Oct 28 1872 Oct 28 1904 Williams Broken stone, unreadable Susan Atmore Apr 18 1846 (Stone broken into two parts) Apr 10 1904 Vinese Atmore May 18 1889 Apr 12 1894 (Stone broken into two parts) Prof. T. M. Simmons June 4 1850 May 28 1937 Ella Pearl Redwine Mar 20 1964 Feb 7 1967 James “Huck” Johnson Oct 25 1940 Dec 20 1998 Susan Bizzell Blount 1885 July 17 1948 Lehmond Joyner June 2 1894 Dec 14 1938 Unreadable stone Broken stone, unreadable Millie S. Outlaw Sept 12 1894 May 22 1978 James Burt Outlaw Oct 14 1891 June 27 1958 Jim Waters Mar 29 1913 Mar 6 1990 Roy Core, Jr. June 1 1937 June 22 1989 FM unreadable FM unreadable Broken stone, mostly covered by grass And unreadable Broken stone, mostly covered by grass And unreadable Leo Bonner June 10 1897 Oct 15 1972 Paul Holland Son of Jas. & Cherry Holland Mar 14 1886 Dec 11 1901 Fannie Wynn Apr 12 1890 May 12 1941 Pompey Moy Born 1856 Died Apr 30 1902 Broken stone Name unreadable Died Mar 1 1920 Patsy A. Wife of A. F. Morton Mar 23 1871 May 7 1917 Newton Kinsey, Jr. Nov 23 1918 Mar 1 1972 Newton A. Kinsey Feb 14 1888 Apr 5 1948 Bessie j. Kinsey Mar 17 1887 Oct 15 1921 Jennette Perry Jan 9 1840 Apr 12 1948 James Darden 1917 – 1984 Mitchell\s (??) Estella W. Williams Dec 24 1893 Feb 21 1969 Willia L. Brewington Martin Aug 14 1914 June 4 1957 Annie Wooten July 1 1814 July 15 1927 Jack Wooten Died Sept 24 (?) 1921 Age 94 Yrs. Stone fallen and broken Madie M. Joyner Dau of Nathan & Francis mosely Aug 18 1888 June 12 1912 Age 24 Yrs. 9 Mo. 25 Days Broken and unmarked stone Partially buried, unidentifiable stone Mary, Wife of Wm. Wooten June 10 1830 July 13 1897 Thos. Wilbur Son of Robert & Dinah Hardy June 11 1893 Aug 29 1894 William Wooten Born 1829 Died Dec 27 1901 Norman Son of Geo. & Eleanor Everette Oct 6 1894 Oct 15 1901 Samuel Parrish 1828 – 1908 Page 2 J. D. Isler Died Oct 6 1913 Age 64 Yrs Jennettie Wife of J. D. Isler July 17 1866 July 3 1896 Maude I. Shaw 1894 – 1979 J. D. Shaw 1909 – 1930 Aaron Shaw 1886 – 1969 T. A. Croom Born 1882 Died 1949 Nannie Wife ofJudge Best Born 1875 Died 1901 Annie M. Daughter of Willis & Sarah Rouse Sept 6 1904 Nov 15 1906 Unreadable FS John H. Rouse PFC ARMY AIR FORCES World War II Jan 21 1909 Feb 27 1975 Nona Rouse Daniels Jan 28 1890 Sept 2 1949 Sara Wife of Willis Rouse Aug 15 1868 May 21 1922 Father Willis l. Rouse Died Feb 27 1918 Aged 55 years Lizzie Wife of Grey Hardy Sept 15 1884 March 15 1902 Joe, Son of English & Florence Davis Dec 1 1912 Feb 16 1913 Jesse D. Davis Jan 30 1848 Nov 9 1908 Emly Wife of Jessie Davis 2 broken, partially buried stones Isabella J. Gray Aug 15 1884 July 17 1948 Fallen, unreadable stone Mother Jane Shaw Died Sept 17 1946 Age 69 Yrs. Goin Shaw Died May 25 1922 Age 75 years Herman L. Shaw 1903 – 1983 James M. Shaw 1895 – 1977 John Dancey Best North Carolina PVT 2 BIL & SUP DET World War I Sept 11 1894 Aug 31 1961 Nora Shaw Best Sept 10 1899 Feb 1 1994 Emanuel Hill, Jr. North Carolina PFC CO 1 369 INFANTRY World War II Dec 7 1910 Apr 27 1952 BSM Viola H. Jordan Jan 27 1907 Apr 28 1989 ALLEN – HILL Lillian Allen Sept 26 1916 NOD Same Stone Lola Hill Oct 5 1901 Feb 26 1968 Rev. Emanuel Hill June 11 1878 Apr 6 1963 Julia Moseley Wife of Rev. E. M. Hill Apr 27 1879 Dec 4 1948 Jennie Dau of Rev. E. M. & Julia Hill May 30 1904 June 10 1922 Mittie Shaw 1880 – 1949 Charlotte O’Neiel Thompson Aug 21 1921 Mar 9 1997 Amanda Marrow July 27 1879 Apr 12 1925 Arbel Davis NOI Mable Shaw 1903 – 1974 Sidney Mewborn Nov 19 1907 Apr 24 1979 Verna Bell Croom 1915 – 1982 Christopher Husband of Margaret Suggs Apr 30 1894 Mar 7 1927 Mother Sarah L. Best Sept 17 1899 Apr 11 1966 Valean Mewborn June 2 1903 June 30 1975 McDonald Mewborn North Carolina SGT 321 LABOR BN QMC World War I Feb 5 1893 Nov 18 1953 Helen Hines Mewborn Jan 26 1898 Dec 21 1992 Albert Mewborn North Carolina CORP 346 SERV BN Jan 19 1936 NOD Litha Mewborn Bryant Oct 4 1865 July 24 1941 Nathan Bryant Jan 11 1860 June 26 1925 Mother Martha Bryant Langston Aug 12 1886 Sept 28 1963 Henry Forbes Nov 20 1907 Mar 13 1928 Claudette J. Robinson July 30 1935 Aug 29 1992 PAGE 3 Pauline Britt Aug 19 1910 Feb 7 1990 John M. Britt June 28 1900 Nov 13 1974 Lendola Wife of J. F. Hines May 25 1907 June 27 1933 J. H. Britt Aug 6 1863 Jan 17 1925 Same Stone Elizabeth Britt May 10 1867 NOD Hariet Herring Died Aug 1 1924 Age 70 Yrs. PALMER George May 7 1861 NOD Same Stone Sarah Jan 16 1877 May 12 1942 Sophia S. Hill July 4 1907 Oct 10 1992 LANIER David Nov 9 1918 Aug 16 1978 Same Stone Isabell Bludson Dec 3 1928 Apr 3 2002 Married Feb 15 1950 Mother Daisy Bell W. Waters Oct 20 1907 Nov 12 1974 Floyd Waters, Sr. Sept 30 1928 May 9 1997 Unreadable marker Augustus Gardner Dec 18 1917 Dec 7 (?) 1984 William Earl Whitfield 8 29 1937 12 16 1975 Sodora Whitfield Aug 3 1906 Dec 16 1980 Lawrence W. Moore 1914 – 1977 Herbert Davis June 13 1902 June 4 1942 Theodore Roosevelt Son of John L. & Huldia Davis Aug 22 1905 Nov 29 1927 John Lewis Davis Sept 26 1945 Ruth Payton Oct 1 1900 Dec 11 1927 Clara Payton 1912 – 1926 Louvenia W. Payton Aug 30 1883 Feb 24 1975 Roland Payton 1893 – 1981 Perlie Collier 1904 – 1925 Zuliene Collier 1904 – 1929 Eliza Davis Bryant July 26 1887 Sept 30 1981 Arthur Son of Sudie Williams Dec 19 1900 Mar 25 1928 Annie Wife of C. P. Wooten Apr 4 1902 May 5 1929 Wm. Moye 1853 – 1934 MOYE NOI Martha mills Dec 1 1891 Dec 11 1975 Eular Speight 1870 Oct 22 1942 Julian Parker North Carolina COOK 810 PIONEER INF World War I Jan 18 1897 July 13 1949 Robert Davis Aug 31 1906 Nov 4 1980 Betsey D. Wooten June 8 1886 Oct 8 1985 Unmarked FS Husband Amos Moye 1882 – 1935 THOMPSON Emma J. Jan 3 1881 Oct 10 1970 Same Stone Caleb B. Mar 12 1880 June 3 1944 Hattie Thompson Joyner May 25 1904 June 25 1948 Irene Rouse Oct 20 1922 July 1 1954 Annie mildred holmes May 11 1914 Nov 7 1984 Kate Perry Holmes May 28 1884 Sept 15 1968 Dorothy Marie Holmes Robinson Sept 31 1925 Feb 16 1965 John H. Holmes, Sr. May 28 1884 Aug 3 1948 Rev. John C. Best Feb 14 1874 Aug 30 1948 Linwood A. Johnson North Carolina PFC 4207 QM SERV CO World War II Feb 22 1922 May 20 1947 Broken, unreadable stone Unreadable stone Fallen stone, unreadable Broken stone, unreadable Stone, missing center Page 4 Wuconda L. White Feb 12 1971 Beb 9 1972 James Graddy, Jr. 1924 – 1979 Essex Shaw 1850 Mar 28 1939 Mr. Faison Shaw Sept 29 1895 Feb 9 1968 Mrs. Annie Lee Shaw Aug 27 1902 Apr 1946 Lena Rouse Wife of Felix Gardner Mar 31 1913 Nov 10 1937 W. D. Dawson Aug 1 1879 Oct 31 1947 Walker Hood NO 512 I. B. P. O. E. Of W. Aug 31 1892 Apr 17 1947 Rev. G. L. Hood Mar 24 1853 Oct 30 1910 J. B. Johnson Apr 22 1914 June 21 1924 Rev. W. O. Rogers July 15 1854 Dec 7 1905 Viola Harpre Sept 1 1888 Jan 22 1906 Elmira Wife of Freeman Smith Died Feb 10 1921 Age 38 Yrs. Unreadable Stone and Broken Stone with “Daws” Jessie Lee Staten Nov 3 1920 Aug 15 1991 Effie Dowson Wooten Feb 6 1900 June 8 1946 Curtis Wooten PFC US AMMY World War I 1893 – 1981 Susan Wife of Jerry Thompson Feb 8 1841 Sept 20 1907 Caroline Faison Wife of Essic Shaw Died May 6 1905 Broken stone ___nie Daughter of ___tilda Sutton Born Dec 15 1895 Died Aug 7 1914 Blank Upright Annie Wife of Pompie Moye Born Mar 6 1804 Died Oct 16 1917 Joseph Joyner Born July 3 (&) Died Dec 9 1935 J B Warters 1888 – 1943 H B Taylor Born 1886 Died Sept 13 1939 Moses L Hardy Nov 2 1937 Apr 6 1987 Polly Mosely Mar 11 1882 Dec 22 1950 Lizzie Joyner Dec 20 1875 May 4 1949 Clyde C Bryant 1916 – 1979 VA Bronze Clyde M Bryant (Same as in previous photo with different MI) PFC US Army World War II 1916 - 1879 Broken stone Parke?? Jennie Wife of William Tabron Born Aug 8 1857 Died June 19 1903 My Husband John H Poole July 14 1898 Oct 16 1946 John H Poole (Same as in previous photo) North Carolina PVT 535 ENGR SERVICE BN QMC World War I July 14 1898 Oct 16 1946 Eva Wife of George Williams July 6 1891 March 31 1916 Sherman Son of Simon & Hattie Hardy Born Dec 5 1899 Died Nov NOD 1907 Eugene Jim Shaw 1880 – 1956 Harriet Suggs Apr 10 1880 Aug 31 1925 Lena Hood Holloway (See next photo for death date) Wife of Ambert Hood Lena Hood Holloway Wife of Ambert Hood Died Mar 20 1943 Ambert Hood Aug 19 1803 Aug 28 1924 George Palmer Born Feb 2 1861 Died Jan 6 1959 Jessie Moore Jan 1 1919 June 13 1989 Clarence Davis Nov 5 1906 Aug 20 1936 Clara Payton Died May 13th 1939 Clara Payton (Same person as in previous photo) Died Sarah Wife of Sam Gray Mar 25 1867 Apr 14 1929 Nannie H Uzzell Born Sept 10 1870 Died July 12 1945 John H Holmes Jr Sept 8 1916 Sept 13 1931 Mary E Carr 1928 – 1921 Multiple stone DAWSON FAMILY Sigmund Dawson Feb 28 1875 Oct 26 1945 Hattie Dawson Dec 25 1882 NOD Roger S Dawson June 26 1903 July 12 1937 Melva C Dawson Sept 26 1913 Aug 10 1935 Melba C Dawson (Same as Melva on previous stone with date discrepancy) Sept 21 1913 Aug 10 1935 Rev Robert Harper Born Dec 14 1833 Died Oct 10 1926 Lydia A Beloved wife of Rev R H Harper April 7 1852 Jan 1 1913 Pattie Harper Shaw June 26 1917 Sept 10 1943

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