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Benton Cemetery
Contributed by Albert C and Virginia B Purvis
September 2005
Brunswick County, North Carolina

Benton Cemetery, also known as Watson-Benton Cemetery
Enumerated by Albert C and Virginia B Purvis September 17, 2005

Note from contributors: The cemetery sits about a quarter mile off of Colon Mintz Road on property owned by International Paper Company. The road to the cemetery is overgrown but identifiable and open enough to allow access to the cemetery on foot. The cemetery itself is barely recognizable as there are many trees and low growing shrubs throughout.
The road to the cemetery is blocked with a locked gate, but we trudged through waist-high grass and weeds and found gravestones almost obliterated by the trees and shrubs growing there. We were able to locate 18 headstones and markers.

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thanks to Albert and Virginia Purvis for the photographs

Rebecca Mintz
22 Feb 1847 - 4 Apr 1923

R J Watson
24 Oct 1864 - 11 Nov 1940
(small brass plaque on a stone marker)

G Ellis
9 June 1895 - 22 Oct. 1918
(son of W W & E J Watson)

W W Watson
10 Jun 1870 - 30 Mar 1940

Eliza J Watson
1 Jan 1874 - 8 Feb 1945

Mary F Benton
11 May 1952
Age 69 yrs 9 mos & 28 days

Minnie Florence Watson
17 Feb 1943
Age 49 yrs 11 mos 4 days
Odessa Watson
6 July 1918 - 6 Aug 1919
Daughter Q M & Minnie Watson

Quincy M
12 Mar 1894 - 11 Oct 1918
Son W W & E J Watson

W M Benton
18 Mar 1911 - 20 Jun 1911

Lawrence David Watson
12 Feb 1943
Age 44 yrs 7 mos 20 days

Abbie Luala Benton
6 Apr 1899 - 12 Nov 1913

Max Walter (?) Benton
1 Oct 1897 - 4 Nov 1897

Maggie Benton
22 June 1894 - Jul 1894

David Benton
15 Jul 1892 - 16 Jul 1892

Lillie Benton
4 Jul 1906 - 5 Aug 1906

George W Benton
2 Mar 1858 - 4 Feb 1921

Mary Benton
May 1867 - 6 Nov 1936

There are several metal funeral home markers in which the names and information have been obliterated with time and weather.

According to Helen Turk Watson in Descendants of William and Rebecca Liles Watson and Allied Families, the following are also buried in the Watson-Benton Cemetery:

Asa Whitfield Benton
Odessa Watson 1918 - 1919
Lawrence David Watson, Jr 1924 - 1942