ELIJAH HAMRICK OLD CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
lands of Wylie Hamrick about 250 years northwest of road leading from
Beaver Dam Baptist Church to Boiling Springs, N.C. and on top of a hill.

Owner of Cemetery: Wylie Hamrick
Approximate number of graves marked: 6
  Before 1914: 6
  After 1914:  None
  Unmarked:    50

Earliest marked grave:  Elijah Hamrick, d. 1835
General Condition of cemetery: Very badly neglected
Date of survey:  27 Oct. 1938
Workers:  B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Hamrick, Elijah
B.   1774
D.   1835
(Information given by
   Collis Jones)

Hamrick, Margaret McSwain, daughter of
   David McSwain
B.  1792
D.  1872
(Information given by
   Collis Jones)

McSwain, George
D.  Aug. 4, 1862
Aged:  25 years, 10 mos., and 15 days

Hamrick, Elijah, Jr.
B.  Dec. 4, 1815
D.  Sept. 13, 1862
Age:  46 years, 8 months and 9 days
(Grandfather of Simeon and Avery
   McMurry-Data by S. C. Jones)

Hamrick, Hannah
B.  May 11, 1817
D.  Dec. 1, 1883
Aged:  66 years, 6 mos., and 19 days
(She was a daughter of David Hamrick
  and wife, Sarah McSwain. Reported
  by S. C. Jones)


(Collis Jones also reported that his brother, John Ezel Jones, is buried
here.  Mr. Jones pointed out the grave; however, there is no marker to
his grave.  Worker:  A. G. Melton)

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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 contions of that time.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm