JOHN WARE, JR. CEMETERY

Located in Cleveland County, N.C. in No. 4 Township, about 7 miles from
Shelby, 300 feet north from Highway No. 54, ¾ mile east of Buffalo
Creek, and about ¼ mile northeast of John Ware old log residence.  It is
on a slight knoll and is about ¼ mile from the old home of Jake Anthony,
a pioneer settler (who married a Beam).  B. Calvin Hamrick says there
were formerly 30 or 40 graves here.

Owner of Cemetery:  Howard Herndon

Number of marked graves:   4
 Unmarked graves:  5
  Before 1914:  4
  After 1914:  None

Condition of cemetery:  The cemetery is grown up in weeds with four or
five cherry trees growing in it; but is preserved from the plow.  The
markers are small soapstone markers and almost hidden in the grass and
weeds.

Earliest marked grave:  Sarah Ware, d. April 10, 1825

Date of survey:  June 7, 1939
[Workers:  None listed]

Inscriptions:


Ware, John
D.  June 8, 1842
Aged:  73 years

Ware, Sarah
D.  April 10, 1825
Aged:  3 weeks

Dillingham, Sarah G.
D.  April 6, 1831
Aged:  10 years

"L. I."
(On plain stone)

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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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