STROUD AND MAGNESS CEMETERY

This little cemetery is located in No. 7 Township, Cleveland County,
N.C. on the lands of Pink P. Hamrick about three miles northwest of
Lattimore, N.C. and about one half mile east of Sandy run Creek, and
about 100 yards east of P. P. Hamrick's residence. It lies on the east
side of a hill surrounded by small pine trees overlooking a creek (name
not known).

Owner of Cemetery: Pink P. Hamrick

Approximate number of graves marked: [Number omitted; should read 2]
 Before 1914: 2
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 40

Earliest marked grave: Benjamin Magness, d. June 26, 1827

General condition of cemetery: Poorly kept.

Date of survey: Nov. 14, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

"Brooks, William,
 Co. B. 34 Inf. C.S.A."
(This man hanged himself in 1888 so says Collis Jones.)

Magness, Benjamin
D. June 26, 1827 in his 73rd year

 (Collis Jones says that Tommie Stroud and wife, Lucretia Spake, were buried here.)

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
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