OLD CITY OF SHELBY or LOVE CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 6 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
south side of Hickory Creek and on north side of hard surfaced road or
highway leading from Shelby to Grover, and about 2 ½ miles south of
Shelby, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery:  McMurry Sons of Shelby, N.C.

Approximate number of marked graves:  None
 Before 1914:    Unknown
 After 1914:    None
  Unmarked graves;   40 or 50

Earliest marked grave:  Unknown

General condition of cemetery:  Completely eradicated

Date of survey:  Feb. 21, 1939
Worker:   Anson G. Melton

This cemetery was started in 1841 and abandoned 15 or 20 years later.
Prior to 1925 this cemetery consisted of forty or fifty graves, some
with markers, all of which were torn up and destroyed about said date by
a tenant farmer named Mr. Barnett.  (He died one year later.)  This farm
is now owned by McMurry Sons.  An effort was made to establish a city
cemetery here but failed.  On the north side of the hill a number of
rough stones are still to be found, indicating the existence of the old
cemetery.

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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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