WRIGHT AND BOSTIC CEMETERY

This little cemetery is located in No 7 Township, Cleveland County, N.C.
on top of a hill belonging to the heirs of Charlie Wright; about 100
yards east of Highway No. 74 and about 500 yards northeast of College
Inn filling Station at the junction of Highway No. 74 and highway
leading off toward Boiling Springs, N.C. about seven miles west of
Shelby, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery: Heirs of Charlie Wright

Approximate number of marked graves: 1
 Before 1914: 1
 After 1914: None
 Unmarked graves: 10

Earliest marked grave: Wm. Madison Wright. Dates not shown.

General condition of cemetery: Neglected entirely. Even the government
marker to Wm. Madison Wright was lying on the ground!

Date of survey: Nov. 1, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscription:
Wright, Wm. Madison, Co. F. 56 Inf. C.S.A. (Govt. Marker)

(Collis Jones says that Cyntha McSwain Harrill, wife of Housand Harrill,
was buried in this cemetery. But Mr. John Blanton who lives near the
cemetery thinks Mr. Jones is mistaken. However, she [Cyntha] is the
great grandmother of this worker, Anson G. Melton.)

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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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