WASHINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY (Colored)

Situated in Cleveland County, N.C. in No. 5 Township on sand clay road
leading from Shelby to Waco, being two miles south of Waco, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery: Washington Baptist Church (Colored)

Approximate number of marked graves: 52
 Unmarked graves: 100

Earliest marked grave: Suckey Wray, d. March 2, 1906

General condition of cemetery: In fair condition

Date of survey: Oct. 3, 1939
Workers: Forest Williams and Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Oats, Randel J., Father
(No dates)

Oats, Cicely, Mother
(No dates)

Dofwood, John
B. Sept. 20, 1889
D. Jan. 23, 1913

Roberts, Sarah L.
B. May 10, 1844
D. Dec. 17, 1932

Roberts, Eli
B. Feb. 24, 1841
D. June 23, 1933

Roberts, Alice, wife of
 George Roberts
B. June 1, 1859
D. May 21, 1907

Borders, George
B. Jan. 30, 1854
D. Dec. 21, 1933

Borders, Levi
B. May 8, 1888
D. Feb. 7, 1916

Whitworth, Infant daughter of
 H. T. & _____ Whitworth
B. & D. 1908

Whitworth, Donna, wife of
 J. N. Whitworth
B. 1873
D. 1917

Wray, Suckey
D. Mar. 2, 1906
Aged about 75 yrs.

McDowell, Lizzie
B. Oct. 11, 1891
D. April 7, 1907

Oats, Betsy, wife of
 Geo. Oats
B. 1858
D. 1915

Patterson, Willis
B. July 1859
D. Sept. 22, 1918

Roberts, Johnnie
B. 1892
D. 1911

Rudisill, Earnest
N.C. Pvt. 365 Inf. 92 Div. (Govt. Marker)
D. Sept. 3, 1924

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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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