{"id":864,"date":"2012-01-14T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/?p=864"},"modified":"2024-05-09T23:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:41:13","slug":"pre-1914-cemetery-transcriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/pre-1914-cemetery-transcriptions","title":{"rendered":"Pre-1914 Cemetery Transcriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930&#8217;s and 1940&#8217;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. \u00a0These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC.<\/p>\n<p>The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries. \u00a0Do keep in mind that there may be errors and\/or mistakes, but the value of these records is immense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adams Cemetery (pg. 5)<\/li>\n<li>Banks Cemetery (two of them &#8211; pgs. 6 &amp; 7)<\/li>\n<li>Bender Cemetery &#8212; pg. 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brown Cemetery (pg. 9 &#8211; African-American)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Civils &amp; Gray Cemetery (pg. 35)<\/li>\n<li>Cumbo Cemetery (pg. 36)<\/li>\n<li>Dillahunt Cemetery (pg. 37)<\/li>\n<li>Duval Cemetery (pg. 10)<\/li>\n<li>Friendship Cemetery (pg. 38)<\/li>\n<li>Forbes Cemetery (pg. 11)<\/li>\n<li>Foscue Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 12 &amp; 13)<\/li>\n<li>Foy Cemetery (pg. 14)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foy Cemetery (pg. 15 &#8211; African-American)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gilbert Cemetery (pg. 40)<\/li>\n<li>Green&#8217;s Cemetery (pg. 41)<\/li>\n<li>Harriett Cemetery (pg. 16)<\/li>\n<li>Harrison Cemetery (pg. 42)<\/li>\n<li>Howard Cemetery (pg. 17)<\/li>\n<li>Huggins Cemetery (pg. 43)<\/li>\n<li>Koonce Cemetery (pg. 44)<\/li>\n<li>Maysville Cemetery (pg. 4)<\/li>\n<li>McDaniel&#8217;s Cemetery (pgs. 45 &amp; 46)<\/li>\n<li>Melton Cemetery (pg. 18)<\/li>\n<li>Moore Cemetery (pg. 47)<\/li>\n<li>Oak Grove Cemetery (pg. 21)<\/li>\n<li>Oliver Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 22 &amp; 23)<\/li>\n<li>Piney Grove Cemetery (pg. 25)<\/li>\n<li>Pleasant Hill Cemetery (pg. 2)<\/li>\n<li>Pollock Cemetery (pgs. 48 &amp; 49)<\/li>\n<li>Pollocksville Cemetery (pg. 26)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Cemetery (pg. 50)<\/li>\n<li>Simmons Cemetery (pg. 31 &amp; 32)<\/li>\n<li>Smith Cemetery (pg. 51)<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Cemetery (pg. 33)<\/li>\n<li>Taylor&#8217;s Cemetery (pg. 52)<\/li>\n<li>Trenton Cemetery (pg. 53 &amp; 58)<\/li>\n<li>White Cemetery (pg. 34)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the Jones County files <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.ncdcr.gov\/Documents\/Detail\/jones-county-cemetery-survey-records\/1286445?item=1292517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930&#8217;s and 1940&#8217;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. \u00a0These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC. The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries. \u00a0Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/pre-1914-cemetery-transcriptions\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pre-1914 Cemetery Transcriptions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}