WILLIS McKINNEY OLD CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 7 Township, Cleveland County, NC one
mile due west of Lattimore, N.C. on the lands of Willie E. Fite, and
being in excellent shape. It is located on an attractive hillside with
two large cedars and two large oaks completely shading it. The old
rocks are appropriately placed at the graves, over which has been placed
medium sized white flint rocks preserving a scene of beauty. The farm
land has been carefully cultivated so as not to intrude upon the
spacious graveyard. The cemetery is clean, free from undergrowth of all
kinds and is really a beautiful place.

Owner of Cemetery: Willie E. Fite

Approximate number of marked graves: 13
 Before 1914:  13
 After 1914  None
 Unmarked graves: 45

Earliest marked grave: Sallie Davis, d. Aug. 15, 1852

General condition of cemetery: Comparatively well kept.

Date of survey: Oct. 26, 1938
Worker:  Anson G. Melton

Inscriptions:

McKinney, James
B. July 22, 1818
D. Dec. 5, 1914

McKinney, Elizabeth, wife of
 James McKinney
B. June 22, 1822
D. Oct. 12, 1883

McKinney, D. J.
D. 1869

Davis, Sallie
Aug. 15, 1852
(Death date I suppose)

McKinney, M. B.
(No date given, Worker, A. G. Melton)

McKinney E.
(No date given)

"McKinney, Willis, Capt. In the Revolutionary War and was in active
service in the Battle of Kings Mountain."
[No dates]
 /
McKinney, William, Jr.
Pvt. N.C. Troops, Rev. War. 1832
(Letter from A. d. Hiller, assistant to Veteran's Administration,
Washington, D.C. to P. Cleveland Gardner, Shelby, N.C., dated Oct. 17,
1931, says: "William McKinney was a soldier in the Revolutionary War,
his claim for pension S.90 17; he was born in Sessex [Sussex] County,
Va., 1764, the son of Daniel McKinney and died in Rutherford County,
Oct. 31, 1857."
(In 1859 he had a grandson named David McKinney; it is said that Willis
McKinney and William McKinney are one And the same person. Information
given By Hon. P. Cleveland Gardner, Cleveland County Historian.)

McKinney, Amy Dugger, wife of
 Willis McKinney
No dates given on rock.

Horn, J. C.
D. 1892
(Collis Jones said that this man died in the State
 Hospital at Morganton, that his full name was John Calvin Horn.)

McKinney, L.
(No dates given)

McKinney, S. J.
(No dates given)

McKinney, Sarah
B. 1847
D. 1909

McKinney, Biddy
D. 1892

McKinney, Nancy
B. 1848
D. 1867 (?)
(Dates on marker obscure-A. G. Melton)

(Evidently this graveyard is of historic value. - A. 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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