C. C. CANIPE CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 6 Township, Cleveland County, NC and is
situated on an old dirt road 100 yards west of present Highway No.18
leading between Mull's Chapel and home of the late Jim Wright of Shelby,
Fallston Highway.

Owner of Cemetery: Forrest Williams

Approximate number of marked graves: None
 Unmarked graves: None

Date of survey: March 13, 1939
Worker: Anson G. Melton

"Canipe, C.C., and four mules were killed, were killed her by
lightining, Aug. 1, 1917." (This is the literal reading on the stone.)

(The stone is about two feet high, eight inches wide, and two inches thick.
Mr. Canipe was driving a four-horse tem for Stamey Bros. in Fallston.
All instantly killed by same stroke about two or three o'clock one afternoon.)

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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.
All listings and cemeteries listings were made prior to 1940 and represent the conditions of that time.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey CD, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm