JAMES BRIDGES CEMETERY

The cemetery is located in No. 3 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. about
¾ mile north of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and situated on top of a hill
with a commanding view of the surrounding territory. S. Collis Jones,
aged 80 years, related to persons buried here, supplied us with
information to the effect that Frank Young owned a large plantation in
vicinity and that he had a large number of slaves buried to the rear of
this cemetery, many of whom succumbed to an epidemic of typhoid fever.
Also, he states that the mother of John Bunk Borders (prominent farmer
near Patterson Springs) was buried here, being Glenn Border's first wife
and the daughter of John L. Borders. Moreover, Mr. Jones says that this
graveyard was named for James Bridges, who came to America from England
before the Revolutionary War, married Rebecca Hamrick, daughter of
George Hamrick; settled some hundred yards or more east of the cemetery,
and had several sons in the Revolutionary War. Also, he was the first
deacon in Buffalo Baptist Church.


Owner of Cemetery: N. C. Joint Stock Land Bank of Durham, N.C.

Approximate number of marked graves: None
 Before 1914:                        None
 After 1914:                         None
 Unmarked graves:                    41

Earliest marked grave: No marked graves

General condition of cemetery: Grown up with oaks and pines, composing a sort of wilderness

Date of survey: Oct. 13, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and 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