The cemetery is on Jonathan “Jonnie” and Mary Faith McLean’s property. From Laurinburg take Highway 74 West, turn south onto Elmore Road. Jonathan’s driveway is maybe ½ mile down the road on the right (west) and his house sits back from the road. From his house, we went south, then west across a little branch to get to the cemetery.
Many thanks to Charlie White for sharing this listing with us.
[Note by Mary Modlin: This cemetery was also referred to as McColl Family Cemetery and Gibson Family Cemetery in death certificates.]
| Funeral home markers (2) | Clayton H Gibson
Son C H and L E Gibson 5 Nov 1907 |
Daughter’s Grave
Laulin Prince Daughter of 30 April 1882 |
Gibson obelisk
Della Frances Gibson 23 Nov 1854- She was the sunshine of our home |
Lewis P Gibson
22 Oct 1854- |
| Headboard Sign
193? |
Mary E
Wife of W H Gibson and dau of Henry & Anna E Bullard Born 23 Mar 1848 |
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| Rose, daughter of J B and Ula F Usher
16 May 1916 |
Maggie L McColl
wife of R U Wright 18 July 1870 5 Dec 1934 |
Calton Leroy
Son of L E and Marie McColl Born 5 Jun 1908 Died 5 July 1908 At rest |
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| Rev John Calton McColl
Born 17 Jun 1867 Died 14 Jan 1898 |
Sarah A
Wife of Hugh McColl Born 26 Jan 1836 Died 2 Oct 1897 |
Wilson Key
Infant son 21 Nov 1888 |
Raney
Wife of Calton Hall Born 11 Dec 1818 Rev. 14:13 |
Notes:
3 Dec 1933 is the death date from the death certificate of Lewis P Gibson. The date was not chiseled into the stone.
Luraney “Raney”, wife of Calton Hall, was the daughter of Nelson Gibson (of Nelson) and Rutha Dawkins and lived in Sampson County, where I found her and Calton Hall on census listings. Her brother Samuel J Gibson was the father of Lewis P(ipkin) Gibson and her brother William D Gibson was the father of Hiram W Gibson, the father in turn of Della Frances Gibson. Hence my grandmother Mattie Delilah Gibson (White’s) parents were 1st cousins, once removed.
It is likely that “Raney” was the youngest child of Nelson Gibson and Rutha Dawkins. Of the 10 known children, there were 3 boys: William D, Samuel J and Thomas Nelson Gibson. The 2 younger ones are buried at the Gibson Cemetery near Gibson; William died during the Civil War, and likely has no marker anywhere.
Clayton Gibson, father of the infant buried here, and Laulin Prince Gibson, infant buried here, are both siblings of Mattie Delila Gibson, all children of Lewis Pipkin Gibson and Della Frances Gibson.
Hiram W Gibson is the spouse of Mary E Bullard Gibson, buried here. I think it highly likely that Hiram is also buried here, but there is no stone — somewhat like the failure to put death date on Lewis P Gibson’s obelisk: the money must have run out. Hiram’s first wife, Catherine Hamer, is buried in the Alfred Hamer cemetery in the corner of a field at Tatum, Marlboro County. I have not found the death place of Sarah Ann “Sallie” Covington, Hiram’s 2nd wife, md 5 Sep 1872, Richmond County. (Mary Bullard was from Fayetteville, and that marriage took place in Cumberland County.)