SAMUEL YOUNG AND WILLIAM HOLLAND CEMETERY


This cemetery is located in Cleveland County, N.C. in No. 2 Township, 4
miles west of Boiling Springs and 13 miles southeast of Shelby; 100
yards north of Boiling Springs-Cliffsides Highway, and about 200 yards
east of Grogg Creek.  The cemetery is about 120 x 120 feet.

Owner of Cemetery: [None listed]

Number of marked graves: 23
 Before 1914:            23
 After 1914:             None
 Unmarked graves:        75

Earliest marked grave:  Samuel Young, d. June 20, 1820

Condition:  A wilderness of briars, weeds and small bushes.  One or two
markers were found under the grass, being fallen down.

Date of survey:   June 24, 1939

Inscriptions:

Bridges, Polly
B.  July 9, 1825
D.  April 10, 1887
Aged:   61 years, 9 months, 1 days

Bridges, Aron
B.  Aug. 4, 1789
D.  June 7, 1887
Aged:  97 years, 10 months, 3 days

Bridges, Margaret, wife of
  Aron Bridges
D.  March 1872 in the 84th year
      of her age

Brown, Isabella, wife of
  David Brown
B.  April 1817
D.  Sept. 9, 1884
Aged:  67 years, 5 months, 6 days

Young, Nutty
B.  Aug. 7, 1821
D.  Aug. 7, 1888
"I am not afraid to die."
(Bully for you)

Bridges, Arabella, daughter of
  S. G. & M. M. Bridges
B.  Oct. 7, 1871
D.  Nov. 20, 1874

Brown, David
B.  Sept. 11, 1805
D.  Aug. 28, 1855

Young, James, born in Gilford ("sic") County, NC
D.  Nov. 14,1848
Aged:  76 years
"He was a member of the
  Presbyterian Church."

Dalton, Elizabeth
D.  Jan. 22, 1845
Aged:  35 years

Hicks, Durham and Marg.
D.  Dec. 7, 1845
Aged:  1 month, 9 days

Gill, Robert
D.  Nov. 29, 1841
Aged:  2 years, 6 months

Padgett, Sarah
D.  Nov. 15, 1849
Aged:  28 years

Padgett, Jane, daughter of
  W. B. & S. Padgett
D.  Nov. 11, 1849
Aged:  2 months

Holland, Daniel
B.  April 9, 1824
D.  April 15, 1852

Young, Susan, wife of
  Francis Young
D.  Nov. 30, 1848 in the
    61st year of her age

Logan, Luraney Young, consort of
  L. H. Logan and mother of 3 children
D.  Dec. 19, 1839
Aged:  23 years

Young, Samuel
D.  June 20, 1820
Aged:  7 years

Young, Pauline
D.  Aug. 15, 1821

Dalton, Mary Ann
D.  Mar. 9, 1833

Baxter, Martha
D.  June 30, 1864 in the 19th
      year of her age

Gill, Rebecca
D.  Mar. 2, 1841

Holland, William
D.  Sept. 19, 1834
About 88 years

Local reports have it that Samuel Young owned 1000 acres of land in this
section and that he was a "wood carder".

Data by P. Cleveland Gardner:

SAMUEL YOUNG-
U. S. Census of Rutherford County for 1790 list names of Samuel Young
and Samuel Young, Jr.  The writer after some investigation believes that
James Young, Francis Young and Samuel Young, Jr. were brothers, and sons
of Samuel Young.  Griffin, in his history of Rutherford County at pages
127, 129, 130, 152 and 166, states that Samuel Young was a Justice of
the Peace of Rutherford County in 1792 and 1794, and also from 1795 to
1799.  Also, he was coroner from 1797 to 1818.

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WILLIAM HOLLAND-
The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 3, No. 2,
Page 718 (Pub. 1903), by J. R. B. Hathaway, gives the following data:
"gentleman in St.  Louis, Mo., wishes descendants of Richard Rhodes, who
died in Pasquotank Precinct in 1692; also, the ancestors of Mary
Harrison, who became the wife of William Holland, English emigrant to
North Carolina in 1725.  William Holland was father of James Holland
(Rev.  Soldier and Congressman from Rutherford County, NC."  From the
above data, and that recorded on the tombstone of William Holland, he
was born in 1746, and therefore, could not have been the English
emigrant to North Carolina in 1725.  The following data will throw some
light on the relationship of William Holland and James Holland, the
Congressman, to-wit.  Griffin, pages 117 and 118, states:  Major James
Holland, known as "Big Jim" Holland, was born in 1754 in that portion of
Anson County, N.C., which later became Mecklenburg, then Tryon, and now
Rutherford.  (Otherwise, in what is now Rutherford or Cleveland).  He
was a son of William and Mary (Harrison) Holland.  Also, that William B.
Holland was a son of James (Big Jim") Holland.  From the above data
William Holland was born in 1746 (that is, the one herein listed and
buried on Grogg Creek), and James (Big Jim) Holland was the son of
William Holland and Mary Harrison Holland, Therefore, the writer is of
the opinion that William Holland (buried on Grogg Creek) was a brother
of James (Big Jim) Holland; and that both William and James were son of
the emigrant William Holland and wife, Mary Harrison Holland.  State
records of N.C., Vol. 22, page 69 list William Holland as private and
Ensign, and Pensioner in Rev.  War.  I take it that this is the William
Holland buried on Grogg Creek herein listed.  The Book, "Our Kin", by L.
M. Hoffman, page 518, states that Julius Holland of Va.  Settled near
Long Creek Baptist Church, d. in 1814, had 2 brothers, Moses and James
Holland, who settled in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties and reared
families.


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