SMITH WILKINS CEMETERY


This cemetery is located in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
the lands of E. D. Hamrick about 1 ½ miles southwest of Flint Hill
Baptist Church, and about 4 miles south of Sharon Methodist Church.  The
cemetery is about ¼ mile north of Main Broad River and is near Route N.
3 from Shelby, N.C.

Owner of Cemetery:  E. D. Hamrick

Approximate number of marked graves: 13
  Before 1914:     13
  After 1914:      None
  Unmarked graves: 30

Earliest marked grave:  John Parker Wilkins, d. Sept. 11, 1814

General condition of cemetery:  Surrounded with a wire fence, but is
covered with broom sedge and small bushes.

Date of survey:  Nov. 30, 1938
Workers:  B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Inscriptions:

Wilkins, Smith
D.  Aug. 29, 1836
Aged:  38 years, 1 month and 26 days

Wilkins, Mariah
D.  April 26, 1883
Aged:  26 years and 22 days

Wilkins, John Parker
D.  Sept. 11, 1814
Aged:  11 years and 10 days

Wilkins, Elizabeth
D.  July 4, 1837
Aged:  65 years and 6 months

Wilkins, Charles
D.  Mar. 12, 1817
Aged:  61 years and 16 days

Palmer, Mary P., Wife of
  Green Palmer
D.  Mar. 21, 1842
Aged:  42 years, 11 months, 14 ds.

Palmer, Green B.
D.  Mar. 23, 1865
Aged:  76 years

Blanton, Grandison E.
B.  Feb. 16, 1808
D.  Nov. 18, 1862

Blanton, A. L.
D.  June 18, 1870

Blanton, M.
D.  Aug. 28, 1872

Blanton, Canzadia
B.  April 9, 1880
D.  July 11 [1880]
Aged:  3 months and 11 ds.

Blanton, M. A.
D.  Aug. 28, 1876

Blanton, W. C.  Son of
  E. J. & P. Blanton
D.  July 16, 1861

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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