JOB WRIGHT CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 6 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
lands of Mills Cline, formerly owned by William A. Cabiness, Dr. T. E.
McBrayer, and about two miles north of Shelby, N.C. on high knoll
between Hezekiah Dedmon old home place and McBrayer Mineral Springs
Hotel, on north side of road, overlooking said Mineral Springs.

Owner of Cemetery: Mills Cline

Approximate number of marked graves: 3
 Before 1914: 3
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 13

Earliest marked grave: G. W. W., d. June 16, 1832

General condition of cemetery: Small trees grow in the cemetery with no attention shown it.

Date of survey: Feb. 20, 1939
Worker: Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

"G. W. W. died June 16, 1832"

"Born May 31, 1825l"

Nov. 1874. Age 19."

(The above inscriptions are literal-all that I could find on the old rocks. Worker. A. G. Melton.)

Concerning the unmarked graves, I have the following data by P.
Cleveland Gardner, Cleveland County Historian:

"Job Wright came from Mecklenburg County, Va. To Rutherford County,
North Carolina (now Cleveland County), in 1812, bought land from a Mr.
____ McEntire at the McBrayer Springs North of Shelby. He was married
in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and his first wife died there. He had
four children by his first wife born in Virginia, to-wit: Newton
Wright, George Wright, Jack Wright, and one daughter Mary (Polly)
Wright. After settling at McBrayer Springs Job Wright was married to a
Miss Polly Sparks. He had no children by her. Job Wright died Feb. 3,
1838 while living on his farm near McBrayer Springs, and was buried in
said graveyard on his farm. His second wife lived a number of years
thereafter, and was buried by his side. The will of Job Wright is dated
January 20, 1838, and probated at Spring Term of Court of same year in
Rutherford County, N.C., and transferred to Cleveland County in 1841.

"Joe E. Blanton, County Commissioner, age 65, says that Thomas Sparks,
grandfather of will T. Sparks, was buried in this graveyard about 1887."