Source: Correspondence and Case Files of the Bureau of Pensions Pertaining to the Ex-Slave Pension Movement, 1892-1922. Microfilm M2110, 1 roll. Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
In the 1930′s and 1940′s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state. These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC.
The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries. Do keep in mind that there may be errors and/or mistakes, but the value of these records is immense.
- Adams Cemetery (pg. 5)
- Banks Cemetery (two of them – pgs. 6 & 7)
- Bender Cemetery — pg. 8
- Brown Cemetery (pg. 9 – African-American)
- Civils & Gray Cemetery (pg. 35)
- Cumbo Cemetery (pg. 36)
- Dillahunt Cemetery (pg. 37)
- Duval Cemetery (pg. 10)
- Friendship Cemetery (pg. 38)
- Forbes Cemetery (pg. 11)
- Foscue Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 12 & 13)
- Foy Cemetery (pg. 14)
- Foy Cemetery (pg. 15 – African-American)
- Gilbert Cemetery (pg. 40)
- Green’s Cemetery (pg. 41)
- Harriett Cemetery (pg. 16)
- Harrison Cemetery (pg. 42)
- Howard Cemetery (pg. 17)
- Huggins Cemetery (pg. 43)
- Koonce Cemetery (pg. 44)
- Maysville Cemetery (pg. 4)
- McDaniel’s Cemetery (pgs. 45 & 46)
- Melton Cemetery (pg. 18)
- Moore Cemetery (pg. 47)
- Oak Grove Cemetery (pg. 21)
- Oliver Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 22 & 23)
- Piney Grove Cemetery (pg. 25)
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery (pg. 2)
- Pollock Cemetery (pgs. 48 & 49)
- Pollocksville Cemetery (pg. 26)
- Scott Cemetery (pg. 50)
- Simmons Cemetery (pg. 31 & 32)
- Smith Cemetery (pg. 51)
- Taylor Cemetery (pg. 33)
- Taylor’s Cemetery (pg. 52)
- Trenton Cemetery (pg. 53 & 58)
- White Cemetery (pg. 34)
You can find the Jones County files here. To view more from across the state, click here.
Philyaw Cemetery (as listed on numerous death certificates), is now called the “Jones Family Cemetery”. It is located on NC Highway 41 in Comfort, NC; Behind brick house with circle drive; Three giant oak in midst of cemetery.
Surveyed by Brenda Craft Hardy and Lynda Lewis Frisch - June 2011
Bishop, Barney W.
b. Sep., 1827 d. Mar., 1914
Bishop, Susan Packer Jones
b. Dec., 1829 d. 1900
Cottle, Preston
b. May 31, 1922 d. Jul. 25, 1999
Ellis, Margaret Cottle Phillips
b. May 22, 1927 d. Jan. 21, 1988
George, Mariah Louise Hatch
b. Mar. 25, 1863 d. Apr. 22, 1946
George, Mary Elizabeth Jones
b. Sep. 12, 1902 d. Dec. 3, 1949
George, Richard Louis
b. Aug. 22, 1889 d. Jun. 26, 1959
George, William Council
b. Oct. 20, 1838 d. Mar. 17, 1919
Hill, Jimmie Bryant
b. Oct. 17, 1902 d. Jan. 30,
Hill, Joseph William
b. Aug. 3, 1923 d. Jun. 23, 1990
Hill, Leona Noble
b. Oct. 29, 1895 d. Feb. 10, 1965
Hill, Manly Gray
b. Jan. 4, 1927 d. Jan. 4, 1927
Jarman, Jobe
b. Feb. 9, 1866 d. Nov. 23, 1935
Jenkins, Clarence Ray
b. Jun. 7, 1951 d. Jul. 7, 1996
Jenkins, Emaline Philyaw
b. Jun. 29, 1914 d. Jan. 7, 2005
Jenkins, Flora Bell Philyaw
b. Mar. 8, 1912 d. Aug. 20, 2001
Jenkins, Infant Daughter
b. May 5, 1947 d. May 5, 1947
Jenkins, Johnie Ruth Philyaw
b. Oct. 20, 1909 d. Mar. 28, 1930
Jenkins, Lillian Mae Craft
b. May 24, 1922 d. May 18, 1990
Jenkins, Rachel Susan “Sudie” Meadows
b. Aug. 24, 1892 d. Feb. 4, 1937
Jenkins, Ralph
b. Nov. 14, 1911 d. Oct. 31, 1994
Jenkins, Wilbur Perry
b. Mar. 1, 1907 d. Jan. 19, 1955
Jenkins, William Clem, Jr
b. Jan. 23, 1914 d. Sep. 4, 1988
Jenkins, William Clem, Sr
b. May 5, 1880 d. Nov. 6, 1955
Jones, Charles “Charlie”
b. Aug. 7, 1862 d. Apr. 8, 1954
Jones, Charles Cecil “Charlie”
b. Jan. 13, 1934 d. Nov. 16, 1936
Jones, Claude
b. Jun. 29, 1907 d. Sep. 29, 1984
Jones, Florence Mabel Chase
b. Feb. 8, 1905 d. Dec. 26, 1985
Jones, George Ace
b. Jan., 1872 d. Jan. 21, 1937
Jones, George Henry
b. Oct. 13, 1913 d. Oct. 4, 1921
Jones, George Robert
b. Apr. 7, 1860 d. May 30, 1938
Jones, Jesse
b. 1820 d. 1867
Jones, Jimmie Lee
b. Sep. 12, 1944 d. Mar. 25, 2009
Jones, Margaret “Margie” Chase
b. Aug. 4, 1884 d. Jul. 18, 1968
Jones, Mittie Ida
b. Apr. 29, 1871 d. May 20, 1934
Jones, Virginia Mae Walters
b. Jul. 6, 1876 d. Sep. 15, 1957
Killingsworth, Albert Robert
b. Oct. 15, 1873 d. Sep. 2, 1944
Killingsworth, Lucy Philyaw
b. Jan. 23, 1885 d. Jul. 3, 1963
King, Ernest Edward
b. Oct. 23, 1939 d. Jun. 22, 1940
King, Horace Edward
b. Apr. 4, 1910 d. Dec. 25, 1978
King, Macie Florence Jones
b. Dec. 24, 1919 d. Mar. 16, 2006
King, Raymond
b. Dec. 31, 1940 d. Oct. 14, 2010
King, Russell Rodgers
b. Jun. 6, 1936 d. Aug. 2, 1942
King, Yoncarrel
b. Sep. 30, 1937 d. Aug. 16, 1940
Marshburn, Bettie Noble
b. Dec. 12, 1886 d. Oct. 11, 1951
Noble, Joseph H. “Joe”
b. Feb. 8, 1854 d. Feb. 10, 1922
Noble, Lizzie Battle
b. Mar. 2, 1865 d. Sep. 18, 1937
Nobles, Elsie Philyaw
b. Aug. 24, 1903 d. Jun. 28, 1988
Nobles, Faison Paul
b. Aug. 25, 1897 d. Aug. 9, 1982
Nobles, Luby Hall
b. Sep. 29, 1893 d. Nov. 2, 1975
Philyaw, Audie Ellen Coombs
b. Jan. 23, 1881 d. Nov. 20, 1968
Philyaw, Carrie Harrison
b. Oct. 23, 1885 d. Apr. 20, 1961
Philyaw, Cecil L.
b. Jun. 21, 1915 d. Apr. 2, 1916
Philyaw, Edna Ivees Nobles
b. Jun. 25, 1924 d. Jul. 7, 2008
Philyaw, Frances Lucille Hill
b. Jun., 1926 d. Jan. 19, 1990
Philyaw, George Robert
b. Oct. 20, 1887 d. Feb. 7, 1968
Philyaw, Harper William
b. Nov. 18, 1922 d. Mar. 17, 2000
Philyaw, Haywood B.
b. Nov. 18, 1922 d. Feb. 14, 1962
Philyaw, Leroy
b. Nov. 6, 1917 d. Jun. 28, 1997
Philyaw, Luther
b. Nov. 25, 1881 d. Nov. 14, 1958
Philyaw, Mabel
b. Jun. 25, 1916 d. Feb. 22, 1936
Philyaw, Mable B.
b. Oct. 28, 1910 d. Nov. 13, 1910
Philyaw, Macie Marie
b. Oct. 24, 1921 d. Dec. 24, 1954
Philyaw, Martha Murphy-Graves
b. Jan. 26, 1932 d. Mar. 6, 2011
Philyaw, Mary Elizabeth Jones
b. Jun. 17, 1849 d. Oct. 20, 1901
Philyaw, Minerva Alice Huffman
b. Jun. 14, 1883 d. Feb. 25, 1950
Philyaw, Rena A. Coombs
b. Aug. 18, 1888 d. Dec. 24, 1954
Philyaw, Walter Wilson
b. Feb. 24, 1882 d. Dec. 24, 1958
Philyaw, Zachariah Wilson “Zackie”
b. Aug. 17, 1859 d. May 4, 1946
Southerland, William Henry
b. Mar. 13, 1841 d. Jun. 10, 1916
Walker, Donald Ray
b. Dec. 15, 1934 d. Aug. 1, 1940
Walters, Claudius M.
b. Dec. 7, 1870 d. May 22, 1950
Winsette, Joseph Haneby
b. Oct. 4, 1912 d. Nov. 3, 1916
Winsette, Peter Calvin “Pete”
b. Jun. 21, 1871 d. Dec. 27, 1945
Survey completed December 2011 by Lynda Lewis Frisch & Brenda Craft Hardy.
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|---|---|
| BANKS, Cyrus Thompson | 19 Feb 1905 | 11 Mar 1905 |
| BANKS, Joseph Kinsey Joe | 29 Mar 1884 | 16 Nov 1957 |
| DIXON, Phillip Kuder | 6 Sep 1939 | 3 Sep 1998 |
| DIXON, Shirley Kindall Shivar | 27 Dec 1939 | 27 Jun 2010 |
| FIELDS, Marie Shivar | 30 Mar 1946 | 1 Oct 2004 |
| HARDISON, Sarah | 2006 | 14 Jul 2006 |
| JARMAN, Dorothy Dean | 18 Jul 1917 | 11 Jul 1938 |
| JARMAN, Furney | 20 Sep 1897 | 15 Oct 1943 |
| JARMAN, (infant son) | 8 Feb 1960 | 8 Feb 1860 |
| SHIVAR Jr., Corace Evans | 15 Oct 1957 | 15 Oct 1957 |
| SHIVAR Sr., Corace Evans | 17 Aug 1936 | 1 Feb 2002 |
| SHIVAR Sr., Edward Earl | 3 Sep 1926 | 8 Nov 1965 |
| SHIVAR, Nettie Mae Hill | 1 Jan 1896 | 6 Oct 1946 |
| SHIVAR, Sarah Frances Sallie Howard | 24 Apr 1924 | 10 Apr 2001 |
| SHIVAR, Walter Hardy | 10 May 1924 | 6 Oct 1955 |
| SHIVAR, Wayland Evans | 11 Aug 1921 | 13 Dec 1922 |
| SHIVAR Jr., Wayland Evans | 20 Nov 1884 | 5 Apr 1944 |
| SHIVAR Sr., William Evans | 24 Dec 1823 | 1 Aug 1884 |
| SHIVAR, William Ward | 22 Aug 1913 | 1 Mar 1957 |
| WEHRHAHN, Nettie Mae Shivar | 25 Jun 1942 | 23 Sep 2003 |
| WEHRHAHN Jr., Thomas Edison | 1 Apr 1968 | 1 Apr 1968 |
| WEHRHAHN, Thomas Edison | 8 Mar 1936 | 1 Jun 2004 |
Thanks to the work of a volunteer contributor, we now have on the site a list of slave names mentioned in Jones County wills from 1778-1868. The wills were abstracted by Zae Hargett Gwynn and published in 1998 in what is now a very important reference work for Jones County researchers.
The list has been added to our African-American Resources page and you can view it directly here.
Thanks to fellow researcher Richard Phillips for sharing cemetery photos he took on a recent trip through Jones County. Near 10 Mile Fork Rd and Ben Banks Rd he saw tombstones in the distance and decided to take a look. I’ve added a link to his blog post from the Cemeteries page. You can read more here.
Yours truly researchers the Koonce families of Jones and surrounding counties. Many Koonce researchers are either descended from or are interested in, Capt. Michael Koonce and his family.
Researcher & Koonce descendant, Claude Thomas Hardison Jr. recently visited the area for the 300th Celebration in Craven County and sought out the gravesite of the family.
cluster of trees hiding the tombstones
Forging through thick overgrowth, Claude did indeed get to take photos of some of the tombstones that were there. Though he didn’t find one for Capt. Koonce or his son, he did capture photos of four tombstones: those of brother & sister, Susan Hargett & James Reynolds Hargett and their spouses — Amos Simmons Koonce and Susan Koonce respectively. Amos was a grandson of the Captain via son Michael Jr. and I’m not quite sure yet who Susan’s parents were.
The tombstones have been added as a cemetery on the site and can be seen from here.
Thanks to researcher and blogger Judith E. Bush, we now have online cemetery photos and transcriptions for some of the tombstones on the John Martin Franck homestead. Judith recently traveled to Jones County and took these photos while there.
The listing can be located by going to Cemeteries –> Franck Homestead Cemetery.
There are some beautiful headstones there – here is the headstone for John Martin Franck’s wife, Elizabeth - a Koonce descendant, daughter of Richard & Elizabeth Koonce. (and yes, I’m partial to Koonces 
)
Elizabeth (Koonce) Franck 1803-1857. Photo by Judith E. Bush
Thanks to contributor Jeannette Corcoran we have a few new obits added to the site. The new listings are here.
New page added w/ links to directories available online for free! So far, the time span covers 1903-1916, but I’ll remain on the lookout for additional content to add. You can find the page here.
