SALEM M. E. CHURCH CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in Cleveland County, No. 6 Township on south
side of Highway No. 74 ¾ miles west of Buffalo Creek and about five
miles east of Shelby, NC.

Owner of Cemetery:  Salem M. E. Church

Marked graves:   15
 Before 1914:  7
 After 1914:  8

Earliest marked grave:  James Hamrick, d. July 1, 1899

Condition:  The cemetery is in good shape.

Date of survey:  June 6, 1939

Salem M. E. Church, situated about five miles east of Shelby, N.C. on
Highway No. 74 and about ¾ mile west of Buffalo Creek, was built
according to a dim date on a cement pillar in 1898.  It is a one-room
frame building about 30 x 45 feet consisting of twelve windows and one
door facing the highway.  The building is heated by a stove and lighted
by two Aladdin lamps.  There are only thirty pews.  A. Mrs. Hamrick
reports that the church owns two acres of land.  A. Rev.  Rayle is the
present pastor and lives in Shelby, N.C.  The church has preaching one a
month.  Mr. Fred Anthony of Kings Mountain, N.C., R.F.D.  No. 2, is
superintendent of the Sunday School.  The stewards are:  Calvin Hamrick,
Jake Q. Anthony, Jake Marlow, all of whom are on Route 2, Shelby, N.C.


Inscriptions:

Hamrick, James Albert, son of
  Miles & Sallie Hamrick
B.  Nov. 15, 1876
D.  July 1, 1899

Hamrick, Miles Clifton, son of
  Miles & Sallie Hamrick
B.  Jan. 1, 1860
D.  July 8, 1904

Hamrick, Infant daughter of
  J. B. & Mal Hamrick
D.  June 26, 1911

Hamrick, Miles
C.C. 15 N.C. Inf. C.S.A.
(Govt. Marker; no dates)

Pruett, Robert
(No dates)

Moore, John F.
B.  June 4, 1850
D.  June 1, 1906
Aged:  46 years, 7 days

McMurry, A. V. & Elvira, son and daughter of
  G. W. & B. H. McMurry
B.  June 9, 1914
D.  July 6 and July 15, 1914

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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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