UNKNOWN OR LONDON MINERAL SPRINGS CEMETERY

This small cemetery is located in No. 9 Township, Cleveland County, N.C.
on the lands of Ernest B. Spangler on the west side of the road between
London Mineral Springs and the home of Dick Spangler, and one mile
southwest of Double Shoals, being seven miles north of Shelby, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery: Ernest B. Spangler

No marked graves.
 Unmarked graves: 4

General condition of cemetery: Bad condition

Date of survey: Jan. 16, 1939
Workers: A. G. Melton & B. E. Weathers

(There are no marked graves in this cemetery. Three or four graves have
rough stones, but there are no inscriptions. However, the cemetery
seems to indicate that 30 or 40 people have been buried here. Moreover,
it is said to be the oldest graveyard in this section, being abandoned
about 1820. Worker. A. G. Melton.) Data by P. Cleveland Gardner: J.
Tom Peeler, age 70, states that his grandmother, Leannah Carpenter Beam,
wife of John Beam, attended church at this site about 1833. She was b.
Dec. 25, 1812. Name of this church was "Big Salem". William Gardner
family attended here. "Little Salem" Church was between Lawndale and
Fallston, to which was later moved to Fallston. These were Methodist
Churches.

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