The epitaphs are as follows:

Antoinette White
Daughter of
John & Audrey White
May 19 1957
May 19 1957

Double stone
FOY
Daniel
March 2 1862
Oct 23 1949
Jadie H
Feb 23 1875
Nov 15 1941

William “Bud” Foy
Aug 16 1911
Oct 29 1987

Moses A Foy
May 1 1906
Oct 23 1952

Double stone
FOY
Nancy I
Feb 9 1916
Feb 6 1995
Israel V
Sept 29 1902
June 19 1976

Varah “Lil Sis” Foy
Dec 3 1907
June 11 1995

MM
Miss Pamela Gray
Sept 14 1946
Sept 21 2007

Gwndolyn (sic) W Witherspoon
Apr 22 1963
June 9 1990

Emma B Jackson
July 16 1906
Apr 4 1990

Double stone
Patricia A Farmer
Sept 2 1973
Mar 28 1984
Kiska Wilson
Nov 21 1983
Mar 28 1984

Linwood E Farmer
Oct 31 1971
Mar 28 1984

Clarendon Rouse
1921 – 1973

Bronze VA Marker
Clarendon C Rouse
North Carolina
SGT US Army
World War II    Korea
May 11 1921
Nov 6 1973

James W Stallings
1920 – 1987

In Loving Memory of
Blanche Mewborn Dixon
June 24 1907
Jan 15 1983

Stone cross
A Coples
Jan 4 1944 – Sept 7 1979

John Coples
Dec 15 1903
Jan 13 1979

MM
Mrs Willie M Coples
Dec 10 1910
Nov 2 2007

Jerome Davis
In Memory of My Papa
Nov 23 1956
Apr 9 	1998

MM
Mr Jerome Davis
Born 4-19-1956 Dates discrepancy with previous photo
Died 4-10-1998

Unmarked graves

Mary Lee Thompson Barker
Apr 28 1918
Oct 26 1994

Dennis Flowers
July 8 1914
Mar 25 1989

Father
Paul Walters
Oct 18 1919
Nov 18 1951

Joseph Flowers
Feb 28 1902
July 1 1983

Mother
Lillie Mae Flowers
May 12 1910
Feb 4 1966

Jannie O Stallings
1927 – 1974

Redden Joyner 
Age 91
Died 1949
Oct 27

Bertha R Turnage
Aug 25 1899
Nov 15 1963

Mattie M Turnage
Sept 15 1930
Nov 14 1969

James W Turnage
1931 – 1984

Leo Turnage
Nov 2 1928
Apr 1 1992

Hazel L Nobles
Feb 3 1947
Oct 13 1974

Irene M Brown
Born June 19 1930
Died Mar 4 1962

Tessie Brown
Dec 11 1915
July 24 1979

Joseph Brown
Aug 10 1910
July 22 1987

MM
Bertram E Gray
August 25 1946
November 6 2006

Beatrice G Dawson
Aug 16 1925
Sept 17 1993

MM
Vera L Cotton Maye
Nov 11 1938
June 12 2008

Brenda Austin
1948 – 2004

MM for previous photo
Mrs Brenda Maye Austin
May 15 1948
May 4 2004     

Leo Gray Sr
1918 – 1982

Sharon D Mervilus
Sept 13 1952
Dec 18 1990
Elijah Maye Sr
July 11 1928
July 10 1997

Louise M Maye
July 20 1931
Oct 5 1987

Samuel Maye
Oct 13 1917
Jan 16 1983

Zodie M Sutton
1905 – 1985

Clevon Maye Sr
Sept 25 1930
Dec 30 2006

SHAW

Mamie Wooten Maye
Apr 16 1878
Jan 1 1945

Page 2

Double stone
Will Barker
Died Oct 29 1944
Age 64 Years
His wife 
Tennie Barker
Oct 21 1888
Mar 24 1974

Willie Barker III
May 26 1932
Jan 11 1963

Mother
Emma L Gray
Nov 8 1897
June 9 1959

Preston Jones Sr
Mar 23 1900
Dec 8 1991

Tessie Lee Jones
Nov 7 1901
Aug 14 1963

Preston Jones Jr
Sept 25 1923
July 21 1968

Bronze VA 
Preston Jones Jr
North Carolina
CPL 806 ENGR AVN BN
World War II   Korea
Sept 25 1923
July 21 1968  

Macie Carol Rigsby
PFC US Army
July 17 1949
Nov 9 1986

Mattie J Rigsby
July 23 1919 
July 21 2005

MM for previous photo w/death date discrepancy
Mattie Jones Rigsby
July 23 1919
July 22 2005 

Double stone
RODGERS
Rufus H
Sept 22 1870
July 22 1943
Mary D  
May 24 1879
Apr 14 1953

James W Graham
US Navy
World War II
Aug 22 1925
Nov 19 1992

William Graham Jr
PVT
US Army
World War II
1921
1989

Colin Earl Fields
Oct 11 1948
Jan 24 2002

Louis N Bell
PFC US Army
World War II
Jan 26 1914
Dec 6 1990

Phyllis T Hood
Apr 18 1900
Nov 13 1978

Rev Peter R Hood
Jan 6 1889
Sept 14 1972

Della Hood Sutton
Aug 7 1883
July 7 1953

John Henry Sutton
Oct 10 1905
Feb 4 1955

Mother
Annie S Bowden
Oct 14 1908
Feb 16 1963

MM
Odell Bowden
1945 – 1968

MM
Mr Robert Lee Sutton
1921 – 1978

Sunken VA stone
Mr Robert Lee Sutton
1921 – 1978

Tashema D McGleen
Nov 5 1975
Nov 21 1976

Fallen Stone
Unreadable

Brenda F Williams
July 11 1953
April 8 2001

Unmarked grave

MM
Unreadable

Matthew Parks Sr
“M P”
Nov 23 1917
May 23 1997

Double stone
(son)
Tyshawn D Parks
Oct 24 1987
July 24 1996
(mom)
Joyce A Parks
July 12 1954
June 30 1995

Different view of previous graves

Bernice M Hood
Jan 7 1951
May 11 1994

Trina Morgan
May 18 1966
Oct 25 1999

MM
??? Dollberry
1922 – 1984

John W Parks
Oct 6 1929
Oct 17 1963

Bertha M Reavis
Jan 8 1913
July 1 1992

Frank Reavis
1907 – 1978

Jessie Mae Waters
1917 – 1981

William Waters Sr
1914 – 1985

Daniel Lee Wade
June 4 1967
Jan 23 1994

Mary L Parks
Died Dec 10 1962
Age 83

Magnes Parks
Died Feb 28 1947
Age 75

Upright VA
Leander Myron Green
SN
US Navy
Vietnam
June 27 1952
Oct 13 1975  

Mother
Grandmother
Beulah M Green
Apr 2 1949
Oct 28 2003

Unidentified grave

Fountain Williams
Nov 4 1947
June 28 1999

MM
Patricia Ann W Raynor
Born 12 27 1966
Died July 16 2005

“SKEETER”
Linward Earl Wooten
Oct 15 1961
Feb 15 2003

Ethel Kennedy McLawhorn
June 6 1914
Oct 29 2002

Page 3

Renee M Wooten
1959 – 1985

Sarah E Wooten
June 27 1939
Apr 11 1983

Unidentified grave

Roosevelt Wooten
March 16 1933
Dec 7 1970

Sudie E Wooten
Born Aug 6 1913
Died Jan 30 1969

Simeon Hatch Downing III
SSgt 
US Air Force
Korea
Mar 2 1935
Feb 7 2006

MM
Annie Mae Hines Graham
Dec 18 1940
Sept 20 2007

MM
Mr. Charles Redmon
April 6 1956
April 23 2007

MM
Linda Bryant
August 21 1957
June 2 2006

Nina Mae Fields
Nov 3 1927
July 21 2006

James Ervin Fields
L CPL US Marine Corps
Feb 20 1951
Nov 16 2000

Jonah Holmes
May 15 1893
Jan 15 1925

William Holmes
Died June25 1918
Age 40

Unidentified grave

Irene Isler Savage
May 25 1937
Oct 14 2007

MM
NOI

MM
NOI

Sybol Ann Isler
Sept 20 1941
Sept 17 2001

Lucille Isler
Sept 17 1923
NOD
Marvin Frank Isler
US Army
Vietnam
Feb 28 1947
May 14 1985

VA Bronze 
Jan S Wilcox
US Army
Sept 10 1957
Nov 21 2001

Double stone
ISLER
Kirby W
May 6 1892
Oct 9 1961
Mamie P
May 18 1885
Nov 4 1955

Della M Arnold
1925 – 1986

MM
Unreadable

Hattie M Houston
Dec 25 1923
Nov 23 1990

Margaret S Parks
Feb 3 1913
Jan 6 1992

Willie Gooding
June 28 1917
May 2 1993

Robert Burrell
March 8 1913
Sept 14 1965

Frank Pope
Feb 1 1945
June 26 1992

Reatha Mewborn
May 18 1896
Jan 16 1988

Henry Becton
1899 – 1976

Ophelia Codrington
Apr 9 1901
May 25 1977

Audrey L Brown
1949 – 1987

Fannie I Guy
“Mutt”
Dec 17 1927
May 13 2002

Jesse Buster Isler
Nov 28 1940
Sept 26 2002

Kate L Simmons
Feb 6 1912
Dec 18 2003

James Mewborn
Sept 9 1919
July 29 1996

MM
Algatha M Wallace
February 6 1949
May 27 2003

Albert George Jr Fuller
Sept 3 1944
July 5 2003

MM
Roger Koonce
August 7 1925
June 13 2003

MM
Mr Moses Morris
December 19 1934
July 19 2003

MM
Elbert James 
Unreadable
July 9 2003

William Kendall Whitfield
Aug 27 1969
July 21 2003

Wooden marker
MM
Johnny Ray Williams
June 9 1964
July 18 2003

Danny “Disco” Taylor
Sept 19 1957
July 24 2003

MM
Unreadable

Mr William Koonce
January 29 1961
October 18 2003

MM
Unreadable

Theodore Howard
“Nookie”
May 10 1944
Nov 15 2003

MM
Unreadable

Page 4

MM  Same as grave in next photo
Mrs Willie Rouse Jones
March 29 1941
December 24 2003

Louise M Jones   Same as previous grave photo
Mar 29 1941
December 24 2003

Milton Leon Parks
June 8 1954
Dec 29 2004

MM
Sonny Speller
Feb 7 1947
Feb 1 2007

Our Beloved Mother
Ann M Mason
Oct 4 1936
Sept 24 2005

Unmarked Grave

Marietta J Mumford
Oct 31 1956
Nov 15 2001

Matthew D Cobb
PFC US Army
World War II
May 12 1921
May 23 2001

Eloise Muses
July 21 1935
April 8 2001

In Loving Memory of
James Arthur Mewborn Sr
Nov 18 1906
Dec 7 1996

Queenie Swinson
July 6 1903
Mar 30 1983

George F Croom
July 27 1929
Mar 6 1995

George H Reaves
Apr 29 1923
Mar 20 1975

Noah Palmer Mason 
Dec 31 1931
March 5 2002
In Loving Memory
Wife Ann
Lewis Bass
Apr 14 1949
Jan 6 1967

Unidentified grave

Fannie Mason
1893 – 1985

Lucille Wheeler
1919 – 1993

Caroline West White
1906 – 1995
Aunt of LeRoy, Christine, Edward
& Willie A West
& James Robert Isler

Rosa I Loftin
May 8 1908
Oct 4 1991

Milton Sutton   
March 18 1905
Aug 14 1967

MM
Unreadable

James Edward “Boo” Jackson
July 11 1922
Oct 28 1992

Cornelius Loftin
Dec 15 1914
Oct 30 1971

Francis Turnage
Dec 14 1929
July 28 1993

Betty Davis Murphy
Apr 28 1888
May 29 1976

Unidentified grave

Melvin Leon “Jabo” Loftin
Jan 3 1949
Nov 13 2000

Deller Mae Davis
April 16 1912
Jan 20 2001

Fannie Mae Loftin
“Gal”
July 16 1930
June 18 2006

Nancy Uzzell
1882 – 1958

David C Coward
1939 – 1970

UZZELL FAMILY

Emmaline D Cox
Born March 24 1888
Died Sept 1 1969

Unidentified grave

Sarah Chambers
1908 – 1985

Marie C Koonce
Nov 12 1932
Dec 30 1987

Willie Sutton
Dec 10 1923
Oct 16 1989

Penny Berryman
1903 – 1992

Dennis A Gardner
July 22 1948
Apr 1 1992

Alberta W Kennedy
1893 – 1987

Betty Wilkes
Jan 1 1912
May 10 1977

Family Plot
Amie Kennedy
Mar 1 1859
Mar 2 1947

MM
L F Mosley
Birth Date Oct 26 1930
Death Date November ?? ???? Unreadable

Matthew Mosley
SP4 US Army
Vietnam
Oct 7 1950
Feb 16 1999

Jimmy Lee Williams
May 6 1943
July 9 1988

Sue Carol Davis
July 23 1953
Jan 7 1985

Manuel Mosley
1939 – 1983

Dennis R Washington
1962 – 1977

Treacy Clark
Oct 7 1903
Sept 18 1973

Page 5

Smithy Clark
Born Feb 12 1889
Died Oct 31 1962

Double stone
Manuel Mosley
Age 62
Oct 14 1952
Bessie L Mosley
Age 52
Mar 9 1959

Luegenia R Arthur
1909 – 1977

Henry Washington
North Carolina
PVT
US Army
World War I
February 16 1892
November 24 1960

Merlin Leroy Sutton
Born Dec 2 1928
Died Jan 8 1971

“Bill”
Woodrow Newborn
Aug 6 1912
May 7 1971

Unidentified  marker

Victoria Speight
Wife of 
Anthony Waters
July 8 1894
Sept 24 1969

Fallen stone
Unreadable

Aron W Gillespie
Born Nov 2 1917
Died July 18 1967

MM
Dorothy M Gillespie
June 6 1934
February 28 2005

Grandmother 
Della Brown
Died
Feb 23 1983
73 years of age

Arlena B Jones
1894 – 1962

Rommey Bryant
North Carolina
PVT 13 CO
155 Depot Brigade
World War I
January 1 1896
September 5 1957

Mable B Chamber
Aug 11 1917
Aug 27 1994

James W Jones
1892 – 1987

Unidentified grave

Gloria L Bryan
Born Sept 13 1962
Died Aug 17 1968

Double stone
BRYANT
Adline
Mar 1 1890
Jan 3 1967
Charlie
Oct 10 1883
Aug 23 1970

Double stone
CROOM
Leola B 
Apr 7 1909
Apr 6 1973
John H
Nov 30 1908
Apr 1 1972

Charlie Bryant Jr
PVT
US Army
World War II
Feb 22 1917
Jan 12 1977

Double stone
BRYANT
Eunice L
Nov 26 1927
Oct 16 1994
Samuel
Feb 16 1922
Mar 3 1987

Eunice Bryant  Same as in previous photo 
Nov 26 1927
Oct 16 1994

Barbara A Bryant
Born Sept 11 1957
Died August 17 1968

Multiple stone
BRYANT
“Bootsey”
Glorie Lynn
Aug 25 1962
Aug 18 1968
Kenneth E
Oct 14 1954
Mar 15 1992
Barbara Ann
Sept 11 1957
Aug 18 1968

Charles W Croom
Nov 8 1930
Jan 22 2002

Wanda Hope Gillespie
Sept 7 1964
Nov 6 2005

Mother
Nannie Brown
Wife of
Jim Revies
Born
Nov 13 1882
Died
April 13 1941

Jim Revies
Dec 8 1970
June 30 1950

Jim Revies
Died:
June 30 1950

Vivian R Miles                         
Born July 30 1934
Died Nov 5 1967

Nannie B Revies
Mar 11 1911
Feb 3 1981

HENRY J SUTTON AND FAMILY

Henry J Sutton
Born Sept 12 1895
Died Oct 8 1965

Mrs Cora A Sutton
Born April 10 1897
Died May 7 1961

Mildred Sutton Davis
Sept 2 1916
Jan 15 1948

John H Sutton
North Carolina
TEC 5
178 Port Co TC
World War II
April 8 1919
July 6 1960

Mrs Eva Mae Cotton
Born Oct 10 1917
Died Sept 6 1961

Raymond Sutton
May 1 1924
Feb 12 1971

Bronze VA
Raymond Sutton
North Carolina
PFC US Army
World War II
May 1 1924
Feb 12 1971

Charles Henry Sutton
Mar 1 1942
Sept 11 1980

Walter S Sutton
May 20 1931
Jan 13 1990

Cora Sutton Davis
1922 – 1992

Kathleen S Grady
April 24 1936
May 2 2002

MM
Miss Evelyn I Sutton
Sept 16 1954
Nov 19 2007

MM
Amos Sutton
April 29 1958
February 25 2007

Rosa B Sutton
1897 – 1982

Mildred T Sutton        
Mar 2 1928
July 17 1967

Phaeda S Ford
1958 – 1987

Page 6

Arlander Sutton
Sept 15 1915
Feb 13 1988

Pennia Morris
June 10 1893
Aug 21 1978

Zella M Barrett
April 26 1926
April 3 2001

Joseph Barrett
July 25 1924
April 21 1982

E L Morris   
NOI

John DeGraffenreid
About 1850
Oct 25 1925





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