THE OLD SAMUEL AND JAMES HAMRICK CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
lands of W. H. Skinner in a comparatively level place, adjoining pasture
out in a field surrounded by small trees such as oaks and pines, etc.
The cemetery is reached by a very poor country road leading from road
just immediately east of the residence of W. H. Skinner; located about 8
miles southwest of Shelby, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery: W. H. Skinner

Approximate graves marked:      6
                Before 1914:    6
                After 1914:     None
                Unmarked:       100
Earliest marked grave:  Rheba Hamrick, d. July 1827
General condition of cemetery:  No care is given to the cemetery whatsoever.
Date of survey: Oct. 14, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Hamrick, Mr. James Y.
D.  Oct. 17, 1849 in the
   39th year of his age.  (The
   first Legislator of Cleveland
   County.  Died during his
   Second term.  (Data by
   S. C. Jones.)

Hamrick, Sarah Ann
D.  Nov. 25, 1829, age
   13 years, and 11 months

Hamrick, Rheba, Wife of
   George Hamrick and mother of
   Sarah Ann, Margaret, and Nancy
   Jane Hamrick
D.  July 1827 in the 47th year of
   Her age

Polly E., daughter of L. & T.
D.  Dec. 15, 1824
Aged:  3 years, 11 mos., 11 ds.

(Collis Jones says that Thomas Hardin, Revolutionary War soldier, was
buried in the field near this cemetery.  - Worker:  A. G. Melton)

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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.
All listings and cemeteries listings were made prior to 1940 and represent the contions of that time.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm