SHOAL CREEK CEMETERY (Colored)

This cemetery is located in No. 3 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. six
miles south of Shelby on lands of Will F. Moore, and being a colored
cemetery, cared for by Will F. Moore, farmer, residing just north of the
cemetery.  The majority of the colored people buried here are slaves
belonging to William Hamrick, large land owner whose plantation extended
from Stice's Shoal to north of Little River.

Owner of Cemetery: Will F. Moore

Approximate number of marked graves: 3
  Before 1914:                       3
  After 1914:                        None
  Unmarked graves:                   50

Earliest marked grave:  Sallie Sarratt, d. Aug. 1881

General condition of cemetery: Very poor condition

Date of survey:   Oct. 12, 1938
Workers:   B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Ross, Robert, son of Fuller & Julia Ross
B.  Mar. 18, 1882
D.  Sept. 1884

Ross, Johnie, son of Fuller & Julia Ross
B.  Mar. 18, 1882
D.  Sept. 1884
(The above Robert and Johnie Ross   were twins and died he same night,
  being poisoned on scorpion eggs they took to be partridge eggs.)

Sarratt, Sallie
D.  Aug. 1881
Aged:  62 years

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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