Philip Davis Cemetery

This cemetery is located 1/8 mile north of S.C. State Line, in
Rutherford County, N.C., and some 30 yards west of County Line of
Rutherford and Cleveland, on present farm of Robert Edney, said farm
consisting of 32 acres; six of which are in Cleveland County, and 26 in
Rutherford County.

Owner of Cemetery:      Robert Edney

Approximate number of marked graves:    2
                Before 1914:            2
                After 1914:             None
                Unmarked:               30

Date of survey: Dec. 28, 1938
Name of worker: Anson G. Melton

Following data by Mrs. Elizabeth Ruppe, aged 77, who lives ¾ mile east
of said graveyard:  "Philip Davis had a son named Philip Davis, Jr.,
buried here; he married a Miss Champion; later he was taken up and
buried at Gaffney, S.C. by the side of his wife.  Also, that Philip
Davis, Sr., above named [now listed below] owned a large number of
slaves, and that a number of them are buried in this graveyard."

P. Cleveland Gardner, County Historian, says that the surveyors
commissioned by Cleveland County in 1845 to establish the new line
between Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, in their report refers to
dividing line of said counties as beginning at a point on the South
Carolina State Line, nearly south ¼ mile of where Widow Davis resides,
etc.

Earliest marked grave:          Philip Davis, d. June 14, 1830.

General condition of cemetery:  Bad condition; it has been abandoned for many years.

Inscriptions:
Davis, Philip
B.  April 25, 1782
D.  June 14, 1830
Aged 48 years

Davis, ??
B.  ____, 9, 1785
D.  Sept. 5, ___Aged:  66 years
(Stone Broken)

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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