OLD HOPEWELL CEMETERY

This small cemetery is situated in Rutherford County, N.C. one half mile
from the Cleveland County Line and adjoining No. 8 Township, and about
two miles west of New House, being the old burying ground of Hopewell M.
E. Church.

Owner of Cemetery: Miss L. Walker

Approximate number of marked graves: 4
 Unmarked graves: 75

Earliest marked grave: Jacob Wolf, d, Dec. 11, 1865

General condition of cemetery: Grown up in oak bushes.

Date of survey: Oct. 20, 1939
Workers: Forest Williams and Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Wolf, Jacob
B. Nov. 1, 1798
D. Dec. 11, 1865

Wolf, Nancy
B. Jan. 5, 1799
D. Jan. 27, 1876

Wolf, Infant son of
 W. C. & P. L. Wolf
B. Nov. 15, 1872
D. Nov. 15, 1872

Bowen, Nancy O., wife of
 W. H. Bowen, Mother of
 B. R. & D. C. Bowen
B. Aug. 26, 1834
D. Mar. 29, 1867

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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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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey CD, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm