BUFFALO BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in Cleveland County, N.C. in No. 5 Township,
800 yards south of Highway No. 150 between Shelby and Cherryville; about
five miles northeast of Shelby.

Owner of Cemetery: Buffalo Baptist Church

Approximate number of marked graves: 12
 Unmarked graves: 67

Earliest marked grave: Margaret Irrenia Ross, d. Oct. 17, 1915

General condition of cemetery: in foul shape
Date of survey: Aug. 14, 1939
Workers:  Forest Williams and Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Porter, T. G.
B. Oct. 1, 1866
D. June 22, 1922
Aged: 56 years

Porter, Susan
B. Dec. 25, 1886
D. April 10, 1925

Hord, Emmer Pearl, wife of
 G. C. Hord
B. July 15, 1893
D. Jan. 21, 1926

Porter, John V.
B. Sept. 22, 1895
D. Dec. 23, 1923

Fowler, Tom L.
B. Aug. 10, 1882
D. Feb. 6, 1932

Fowler, Prese
B. April 15, 1883
D. Sept. 16, 1919

Fowler, Sarah Delia, daughter of
 Tom & E. P. Fowler
B. April 27, 1911
D. Mar. 8, 1918

Fowler, Everett J., son of
 Tom & F. P. Fowler
B. May 7, 1903
D. June 29, 1919

Forbes, W. S.
B. July 4, 1850
D. June 10, 1918

Russ, Nettie Louise Owens, wife of
 W. A. Russ
B. Feb. 8, 1904
D. Oct. 12, 1936

Russ, Margaret Irenia
D. Oct. 17, 1915
Aged: 78 yrs., 7 mos., 17 ds.

Griffith, L. J., wife of
 J. S. Griffith
B. June 17, 1877
D. Feb. 3, 1919

Spake, Julius P.
B. July 15, 1861
D. June 30, 1919

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
copyrighted 2008, by Ann K. Propst and Derick S. Hartshorn.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey CD, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm