EDMOND JONES GRAVEYARD

This small graveyard is located in No. 7 Township, Cleveland County, NC
on the lands of J. B. Lattimore about one and a half miles south of the
town of Lattimore, N.C.; also situated one quarter of a mile west of
hard surfaced road leading from Lattimore to Highway No. 74. It is on
top of a mild hill with wild cherry trees and honeysuckle vines and is
in an oval shape. Two small pines grow on the west side of the
graveyard and is about 8 miles due west of Shelby, N.C. The father and
mother of Collis Jones buried here one mile north of Highway No. 74.

Owner of Cemetery: J. B. Lattimore

Approximate number of marked graves: 4
 Before 1914: 4
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 15

Earliest marked grave: Edmond Jones, d. Aug. 29, 1857

General condition of cemetery: Neglected

Date of survey: Oct. 28, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:


Jones, Edmond
D. Aug. 29, 1857
"Joined the church at Sandy Run in
 1811." (S. C. Jones says that he was
 deacon of the Sandy Run Baptist
 Church.)

Jones, Sussanah McKinney, wife of
 Edmond Jones [per text]
D. Feb. 13, 1866
Aged: 80 years, 11 months, 13 days

Jones, J. J., Elder
(Father of historian, S. C. Jones)
B. Feb. 23, 1824
D. June 23, 1899

Jones, Nancy Hamrick, wife of
 Elder J. J. Jones
B. April 14, 1825
D. Mar. 1, 1887

(S. C. Jones reports that the following persons were all buried here:
Willis Jones and wife; Nancy Horne; David Lewis Jones and wife; and
Vandorah Durham.)

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