STREET HARRILL OLD CEMETERY

This little old cemetery is located in No. 7 Township, Cleveland County,
N.C. on the lands of Coleman A. Doggett about 150 yards west of
Shelby-New House Road on the top of a hill; also about a quarter of a
mile northwest of Eskridge Zion Colored Church.

Owner of Cemetery: Coleman A. Doggett

Approximate4 number of marked graves: 5
 Before 1914: 5
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: None

Earliest marked grave: Sallie McCombs, d. Dec. 9, 1880

General condition of cemetery: Well kept, with some nice markers.

Date of survey: Nov. 9, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:


Harrill, Street
B. Feb. 3, 1810
D. June 24, 1891
(Collis Jones says that Street Harrill's
 mother was the daughter of Gabriel
 Washburn.)

Harrill, Sallie McCombs
B. Jan. 3, 1815
D. Dec. 9, 1880

Harrill, P. Lucinda
B. 1838
D. 1914
"An humble devoted Christian."

Harrill, Martha E.
B. 1835
D. 1900

(Two Harrill white women raised [a] Negro girl that married Jerry Camp,
and willed about 100 acres to her. The colored people got involved in
debt and lost the land. Worker, B. E. Weathers.)

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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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