HAWKINS-DOBBINS CEMETERY

This cemetery is situated in Cleveland County, N.C., No. 2 Township, 14
miles west of Shelby, 3 miles south of Mooresboro, on cross-country
road; also, about 1 mile south of the home of J. Newton Bridges, farmer
and landowner.

Owner of Cemetery: Jim Gantt

Marked graves:    9
Before 1914:      9
After 1914:       None
Unmarked graves:  25

Earliest marked grave:  Wm. A. Dobbins, d. March 7, 1844

Condition of cemetery:  Grown up in weeds and briars with a bunch of
high bushes in north end of cemetery.

Date of survey:  June 23, 1939

Inscriptions:

Dobbins, Wm. A.
D.  Mar. 7, 1844
Aged:  7 years, 11 months

M. M. H. D.
DC.  Nov. 28, 1859 aged 3 years
(On crude old stone.)

D. R. H. D.
DC, 30, 1870, age 9 months [No month
  Shown.]  (On crude rock.)

D. J. W.
D.  Aug. 29, 1875
(On crude native stone.)


G. R.
D.  Jan. 10, 1846
Aged:  73 years

R. R.
D.  Nov. 2, 1851

E. D. H.
B.  Dec. 8, 1851
D.  Mar. 26, ….(Dim)

M. H.
1876
Aged:  98 years

M. E. D.
June 19, 186_ (Stone broken.)

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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.
All listings and cemeteries listings were made prior to 1940 and represent the contions of that time.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm