JESSIE HURD CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 6 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
present farm of Bynum Mauney, six miles north of Shelby on west side of
State Highway No. 18, about midway and a little south of direct line
between Poplar Springs School House and Wallace Grove Baptist Church.

Owner of Cemetery: Bynum Mauney

Approximate number of marked graves: 1
 Before 1914: 1
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 6

Earliest marked grave: "1857" (name not given.)

General condition of cemetery: Entirely eradicated.

Date of survey: Dec. 28, 1938
Worker: Anson G. Melton

Inscription:

"1857" (Name not given.)

Data by Miss Louisa Vaughn, aged 79, daughter of William Vaughn, and
granddaughter of Spencer Vaughn and wife, Leah Gardner Vaughn, and great
granddaughter of Wm. (Buck) Vaughn and wife, Miss ____ Perkins. Miss
Vaughn remembers seeing Jessie Hurd, and he resided on the Crane farm
near this graveyard; Jessie Hurd made pewter spoons and other tableware;
his wife preceded him in death; both are buried in this graveyard. The
family name "Hurd" is now extinct in Cleveland County. This was
originally a very large graveyard, and one of the oldest in said
community. Miss Vaughn says that this graveyard contained some fifty or
sixty graves, and in the last few years the entire graveyard has been
taken into cultivation by Bynum Mauney and his tenants with the
exception of the graves above mentioned. This graveyard is in an open
field, land adjoining being under cultivation.

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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.
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