JAMES IRVIN CEMETERY

Location:  Lying in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on lands of
A. T. Hamrick (formerly John Hamrick's) about 6 miles west of Shelby,
about 400 years west of one prong of Beaver Dam Creek and about 300
yards from country road leading from John Hamrick's to Highway #74.
This cemetery has wild cherry trees and oaks around it.  Collis Jones
says:  James Irvin was J. & Irvin and John Irvin's great grandfather.
There are about 20 unmarked graves.

Owner of Cemetery:      A. T. Hamrick

Approximate number of marked graves:            5
                Before 1914:                    5
                After 1914:                     None
                        Unmarked:               20

Earliest marked grave:  John Y. Irvin, d. June 16, 1829.

General condition of cemetery:  Poorly kept.

Date of survey: Oct. 18, 1938
Name of workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:


Irvin, James
Johnson's Co.
Hammonds's S.C. Regt.
Rev. War
D.  May 15, 1845
Aged:  82 years, 2 mos.

Irvin, Martha
D.  Dec. 1840
Aged:  50 years and 11 months

Irvin, John Y.
D.  June 16, 1829
Aged:  23 years

Irvin, Isaac J.
D.  July 30, 1839
Aged:  19 years, 4 mos., 24 ds.

Irvin, Susanah
D.  May 9, 1846
Aged:  48 years, 11 mos., 23 ds.

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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