JOSEPH T. RAMSEY CEMETERY

Located in No. 5 Township, Cleveland County, in southeastern part of
Waco, N.C. Its size is 30 x 30 feet, enclosed with barbed wire fence,
in edge of a cow pasture about 200 yards northeast and to rear of old
Joseph T. Ramsey home and about the same distance southeast of the S. A.
L. Ry., and near an old spring.

Owner of Cemetery: Joseph T. Ramsey

Number of marked graves: 1
Unmarked graves:         5

Earliest marked grave: Maggie J. Moore, d. 1906

Condition: It is in the edge of a cow pasture and neglected.

Inscription: Moore, Maggie J., wife of C. Moore B. 1867; D. 1906

Robert G. Brown, who lives between Waco and Cherryville, will be one
hundred years old on the 24th day of November, 1939. I visited his home
April 4, 1939, and secured [the] following data from him and his two
daughters, Misses Emma and Clemmie Brown, and his grandson, William
Brown, to wit:

Robert Gilbreath Brown, born in York County, S.C. about three miles
north of York, was a son of John Brown and wife; he moved to the Waco
community when about nineteen years old (1859), single, with his
parents. John Brown and wife were buried in Long Creek Cemetery, where
they were members.

Robert Gilbreath Brown served four years in the Civil War, in C. E. 12th
Regt. under Captains A. W. Burton, J. W. Gidney, Jessie Jenkins, J. B.
Fulton and Plato Durham in the first company to go out from Cleveland
County. His family were Presbyterians. In fact the old Waco
Presbyterian Church was organized and built by R. G. Brown, Pink
Rudisill, Wm. Robertson, Enos Berry, Sylbannus Huss, Joseph T. Ramsey,
Mrs. ____ Alexander (mother of Dav Alexander). Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sneed
and Mr. and Mrs. Rush Vandyke. All of these lived at Cherryville except
the Browns, Alexanders, Robertson, Mauney and Huss. This church was
erected about 1889 and abandoned about 1919, and property sold to Andrew
Putnam.

About 1938, William Brown, grandson of R. G. Brown, deposited the
records of Waco Presbyterian Church in the archives at Montreat, N.C.
Pastors ____ Foister, W. P. McCorkle, Jones Barkly, W. R. Minter, S. L.
Cathey, Rev.____ Secrest, Camelius Mils, Drury L. Laney, Rev. _____
Roach; when this church was abandoned the members went to Cherryville.
Mary Brown, daughter of said John Brown, was married to Wm. Quinn of
York County, S.C. and he was buried at Bethany A. R. Presbyterian Church
in said county. They had three children, to-wit:

1. John Quinn m. Emma Thomason; they live at York, S.C.

2. Wm. Quinn died single, buried at Long Creek.

3. Robert Quinn m. Fannie Blakely at Rutherfordton, N.C.
Following the death of Wm. Quinn, his widow, was married to Joseph T.
Ramsey, and they had two children, to-wit: 1. Bert Ramsey m (1).
Bessie Ogden; (2) Mattie Horn; he settled in Spartanburg, S.C. He is
dead.

2. Maggie J. Ramsey m. Cicero Moore, son of Dr. Simpson Moore, Dentist.

The four graves unmarked in said cemetery are: Joseph T. Ramsey; Mary
Brown Quinn Ramsey; Blanch Moore, daughter of Maggie J. and Cicero Moore
(died at age about 8); and Walter Moore, son of Maggie J. and Cicero
Moore (died at about 6), both of diphtheria a few days apart.

NOTE: Waco was formerly known as "Ramsey's Crossing" for Joseph T.
Ramsey. Data by P. Cleveland Gardner.

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
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