POPLAR SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, NC about 5
½ miles southwest of Shelby, N.C. being about 350 yards northwest of
said building, a brick structure, and is divided into two small section
with a little road running between the sections; and it is about 1 mile
northwest of Sharon M. E. Church.

Owner of Cemetery:  Poplar Springs Baptist Church

Number of marked graves:  43
Unmarked graves:          43

Earliest marked grave:  Samuel Ledford, d. 1863

Condition:   The cemetery is in good condition

Date of survey:   March 28, 1939

Workers:   Forest Williams and Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Hamrick, C. P.
B.  Dec. 6, 1885
D.  Aug. 7, 1904
Aged:  18 years, 8 months, 1 day

Ledford, Samuel
"Killed in War"
B. 1828
D.  1863

Ledford, Lucinda
B. 1828
D.  1912

Hamrick, Infant son of
  Grover & Lettie Hamrick
D.  June 12, 1912


Ledbetter, James J., son of
  F. M. & Minnie Ledbetter
B.  Jan. 28, 1906
D.  Mar. 20, 1909

Jones, Lottie C., Wife of
  J. B. Jones
B .  April 2, 18i90
D.  Feb. 21, 1911
Aged:  20 years, 10 months, 19 days

Arnold, J. C.
B.  Dec. 1856
D.  July 23, 1907
"She was a loyal friend, a noble
   daughter and a devoted wife
   and mother."

Jones, Susan. wife of
  B. F. Jones
B.  July 18, 1855
D.  1912

Davis, Charles P.
B.  Mar. 20, 1892
D.  Aug. 4, 1911

Davis, Russell
B.  Sept. 7, 1896
D.  Aug. 2, 1910

Davis, Sarah
B.  Oct. 3, 1863
D.  July 26, 1899
Hamrick, Eva Hoyt, daughter of
  John G. Hamrick
B.  Aug. 8, 1899
D.  Dec. 11, 1899

Hamrick, I. L.
B.  April 9, 1826
D.  June 25, 1903

Hamrick, Nancy, wife of
  I. L. Hamrick
D.  Oct. 6, 1910

Randall, E. J.
B.  April 14, 1869
D.  July 3, 1871

Randall, M. E.
B.  April 14, 1869
D.  July 22, 1871

McSwain, Louise Jane
B.  Feb. 24, 1829
D.  April 7, 1908

McSwain, B. B.
B.  July 15, 1829
D.  Sept. 18, 1908

Holland, Thomas J.
Co. H. 28 N.C. Inf.
C.S.A. (No Dates)

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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