RICHARD BRIZENDINE AND FORD CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 9 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on a
knoll in an oval shape design under the shadow of a large cedar and with
numerous oaks and shrubbery of various kinds growing in the same. It is
about one and a half miles southwest of Lawndale, N.C. and about 20
yards southeast of the Solon Ford old home place (also formerly owned by
Dr. Tom Gold), and 50 yards north of Lawndale Railway track.

Owner of Cemetery: Hall E. Schenck

Approximate number of marked graves: 10
 Before 1914: 10
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 22

Earliest marked grave: Richard Brizendine, d. May 4, 1836

General condition of cemetery: A large cedar and numerous oaks with
various kinds of other shrubbery grow on the plot occupied by the
cemetery.

Date of survey: Jan. 11, 1939
Worker: Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Ford, John
D. Oct. 19, 1849
Aged: 83 years, 1 mos., 10 ds.

Ford, Elisabeth
D. Mar. 14, 1840
Aged: 71 yrs., 2 mos., 24 ds.

Warlick, Soprana E.
D. Oct. 18, 1848
Aged: 2 yrs. 2 mos., 28 ds.

Ford, Andrew
B. April 29, 1812
D. Oct. 4, 1887

Tisdale, W. A.
D. April 3, 1862
Aged: 62 ears, 1 mo., 16 ds.

Brizendine, Ann B.
D. Aug. 17, 1847
Aged: 77 years

Brizendine, Richard
D. May 4, 1836
Aged: 73 years

Tisdale, K. J. F.
D. Feb. 3, 1843
Aged: 2 yrs., 2 mos. 4 ds.

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
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