Raleigh Register
February 18, 1834
DIED – at his residence, in Twiggs county, Ga., Hardy BROWN, a native of Jones county, in this State, in the 39th year of his age. He emigrated to Georgia, about eight years since, carrying with him a character for industry, honesty and patriotism.
DIED, in Jones County, on Sunday the eleventh inst. Mrs. Mary BROWN, the amiable wife of Isaac BROWN, Esq. In the death of this excellent woman, female society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, the neighborhood a dear friend, and her weeping relations are left to mourn their irreparable loss. Possessed of all those amiable qualities, that adorn and beautify the female sex, she was excelled by none, in the practical exercise of piety, virtue & benevolence. A mild, meek and humble devotion to the doctrines and principles of the holy religion of the Lamb of God, at all times characterised her conduct and conversation; and we trust and believe, that her immortal spirit, which but a few days since was confined within the frail tabernacle of mortality, and agonized by death and disease, has now “winged its flight, on pinions of love,” to the mansions of etherial [sic] bliss; and is now in the full fruition of all the joys of heaven, which are prepared for the faithful followers, of the blessed Jesus, where “wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.” — A Friend.
Source: Newbern Sentinel, 27 Nov 1819, pg. 3.
Died – on the 19th inst., at the seat of Mr. Edwin BECTON, Jones County, the Rev. Selby H. WYES, aged about 43.
Mr. WYES was a gracious and useful man. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and freely gave himself up to seek and save perishing sinners. Though not regularly attached to the travelling connexion, he had been a laborious itenerant Preacher nearly three years. His ministry was not without seals in New River; and in Raleigh Circuit, his meekness, love, prayers, tears, sermons, and exhortations will not soon be forgotten.
He wanted no appeal from labor, danger, or suffering. His willing soul said with Isaiah, “Here am I, send me,” – -and, when struggling with the king of terrors in the arms of death, his supreme desires appear to have been, “to recommend his Savior to others and to make a speedy believing application to him for safety and happiness.” As he lived, so he died, a Christian, in full expectation of a blessed immortality.
“Far from a world of toil and strife,
He’s present with the Lord,
The labors of his mortal life,
End in a rich reward.”
Source: New Bern Sentinel. 1 Dec 1821. pg. 3.
The following death notice appeared in the May 24, 1848 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper. James HOWARD was a Senator from the Jones and Carteret districts.
The following death notice for Wimberly COXE appeared in the April 15, 1848 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper. He was 23 years old.
The following death notice for Daniel ANDREWS appeared in the May 13, 1848 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper.
The following death notice appeared in the May 13, 1848 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper. John ASKEW was 35 years old.
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
