UNKNOWN TORY GRAVE

This grave is located in No. 9 Township of Cleveland County, N.C. seven
miles north of Shelby, N.C. on the west side of Highway No. 18, five
hundred yards northwest of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in an old
garden place of the late Mrs. Carry Wellmon Williams, widow of Hugh
Williams, now owned by her son, Billie Williams. Above mentioned grave
is situated in cultivated field south of present Cotton Gin at Beams
Mill.

Owner of Cemetery: Billie Williams

Approximate number of marked graves; None
 Before 1914: None
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 1

General condition of cemetery: Isolated in an old garden place now in
an open field and covered with a pile of rocks.

Information handed down from William Wellmon, a Rev. War soldier and
father of said Mrs. Carry Wellmon Williams, who gave this land to his
daughter, Mrs. Carry Wellmon Williams, is that a Tory lived here during
the Revolutionary War; that a group of Patriots went to his home one
night and hanged him to the eaves of his house and killed him. He was
buried in the garden near the house, and the grave is still pointed out.
This information is given by P. Cleveland Gardner, Cleveland County
Historian.

Date of survey: Feb.6, 1939
Worker: Anson G. Melton

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