Author: TinaMcBride

SIMPSON Family Bible (MATTIE B. SIMPSON)

Mattie B. Simpson Bible – Holy Bible by Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, Newly Edited by the American Revision Committee A.D. 1901. Is in the possession of Richard L. Ward, Jr. in Va Beach, VA.

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Miss Mattie B. Simpson

Shiloh, NC

Age 22 October 29, 1920

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R. L. Ward married July 25, 1943 (no name of wife)

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Sudie M. West daughter of William West and Margaret Sanderlin his wife, was borned January the 15, 1878

Mattie B. Simpson daughter of Robert L. Simpson and Sudie West his wife, was borned October 29, 1898

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William West son of Joseph West and his wife Nancy Linton was borned March the 2, 1843

Margaret Sanderlin daughter of Jeremiah Sanderlin and Susan Forbes his wife was borned December the 13

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Margaret West wife of Wm West died May the 17, 1914

Contributed by Becky Ward Dobson

MCBRIDE CHURCH ROLL 1858-1860 (Whites)

White: The men and woman met in classes together.

  • E. Abbott
  • Eliza Abbott
  • Margaret Abbott
  • S. E. Abbott
  • E. A. Bullock
  • I. L. Chamberlain
  • Jas. H. Chamberlain
  • James N. Chamberlain
  • Nancy Chamberlain
  • Martha Creekmore
  • Alsey Eason
  • Josiah Eason
  • James Ferebee
  • Joe Ferebee
  • Harriett Ferebee
  • Hulda Ferebee
  • Courtney E. Gordan
  • John D. Gordan
  • M. C. Gordan
  • Morgan C. Gordan
  • Ellen Halstead
  • Isiah Hodges
  • Josiah Hodges
  • Lemuel Halstead
  • Nancy V. Hodges
  • Daniel Jacobs
  • Jas. F. Jones
  • John Jacobs
  • David McCoy
  • Louisa McCoy
  • Elurane McPherson
  • Love V. McPherson
  • Nancy McPherson
  • Lovey Meiggs
  • Elizabeth Mullen
  • Lizzie ? Morgan
  • Geo. A. Nosay
  • Margaret Nosay
  • William B. Old
  • Bailey J. Overton
  • Grant Overton
  • Hugh Overton
  • Malachi Overton
  • Mary F. Overton
  • Ira E. Pearce
  • S. F. Pearce
  • W. C. Pearce
  • Hugh Pritchard
  • Geo. Riggs
  • Marshall Riggs
  • Walton Riggs
  • Elizabeth Robey
  • J. C. Rudder
  • Adeline Sawyer
  • Jas. H. Sawyer
  • Mary V. Sawyer
  • M. N. Sawyer
  • Willouby Sawyer
  • Wm. Sawyer
  • Emily Spence
  • Nash Spence
  • Washington Spence
  • J. Stallings
  • A. V. Taum
  • I. C. Tatum
  • John C. Tatum
  • Mary Taylor

Roll book in possession of Miss Emily Love Spencer. Copied May 1963

Record provided by Thalia T. Jones

Contributed by Darleen F. Ricci

 

SAWYERS CREEK CHURCH RECORDS

  • Aby Bell departed this life July 31, 1815
  • Sister Salley Morgain departed this life 29 Nov 1815
  • Brother Windsor departed this life 15 Jan 1816
  • Brother Isaac Murdin departed this life 1 May 1817
  • Sister Betsey Tuttle departed this life 17 Oct 1817
  • Sister Sally Dozier departed this life 20 Oct 1817
  • Brother John Morgan died before 1815
  • Sister Mary Dozier wife of Philip departed this life 29 Jan 1818
  • Brother Joseph Tuttle departed this life 9 Feb 1818
  • Sister Susan Baxter departed this life Feb 1818
  • Sister Mary Trafton departed this life 27 Feb 1822
  • Sister Molly Sawyer and Pruella Hastings departed this life Apr 1822
  • Brother Wiloby Jones got burnt to death with brandy Friday about 10 at night 16 Aug 1822
  • Brother William Powers departed this life 13 Jan 1824
  • Sister Salley Collins departed this life 24 Jan 1824
  • Brother Asa Tuttle departed this life 30 Apr 1824
  • Brother Thomas Etheridge departed this life 22 June 1824
  • Sister Dency Taylor departed this life July 1824
  • Brother Cason Moressett departed this life 11 Mar 1825
  • Sister Susanah Sanderlin departed this life 13 Nov 1825
  • Brother Henry Lamb departed this life 25 Jan 1825
  • Sister Frankey Jones departed this life 11 May 1826
  • Sister Keziah Cartwright departed this life 27Aug 1826
  • Brother ? Elias McCoy departed this life 18 Jan 1827
  • Sister Sarah Granger departed this life 3 Jan 1828
  • Sister Polly Lamb wife of John departed this life 9 Sept 1829
  • Sister Peggy Williams departed this life Feb 1830
  • Sister Comfort Merry ? departed this life 9 Feb 1830
  • Sister Mary Sivils departed this life 1 Mar 1830
  • Sister Ann Sikes departed this life 11 Sept 1830
  • Sister Elizabeth Etheridge departed this life 21 Oct 1830
  • Brother Lemuel Gregory departed this life 11 Mar 1831
  • Sister Mikel Cooper departed this life 30 Mar 1832
  • Sister Gracy Dozier departed this life May 1832
  • Brother Kenion Jun 1832
  • Sister Nancy Kallam 28 Oct 1832
  • Sister Frankey Etheridge Nov 1832
  • Sister Alef Williams departed this life 15 Dec 1833
  • Brother Abner Humphries departed this life 24 Dec 1833
  • Sister Charity Divers departed this life 2 Jan 1834
  • Sister Milly Nash departed this life 11 Jan 1834
  • Sister Susanah Grandy departed this life 16 Jan 1834
  • Brother I. E. Dozier departed this life 30 Jan 1834
  • Sister Nancy Gregory departed this life 26 Nov 1834
  • Brother Joseph Jones departed this life 2 Sep 1835
  • Sister Meriam Sawyer departed this life 21 Aug 1835
  • Sister Mcpherson departed this life 11 Aug 1837
  • Sister Lovey Sawyer departed this life 11 Nov 1838
  • Sister Polly Dozier departed this life 27 May 1839
  • Sister Alif Sanderlin departed this life 24 Jun 1839
  • Sister Alif Sanderlin widow of Griffen
  • Sister Elizabeth Colins departed this life 28 Jan 1840
  • Brother Wiloby Dozier departed this life 24 Feb 1840
  • Sister Susan Faircloth departed this life 18 Mar 1840
  • Sister Lucy Burgess departed this life 29 Mar 1840
  • Brother Smith Mercer departed this life 18 Jan 1841
  • Sister Charity Jarvis departed this life 9 Jun 1841
  • Sister Ruthy Wilder departed this life 4 Apr 1842
  • Sister Henritta Ferrell departed this life 11 Apr 1842
  • Sister Molly Keaton departed this life Mar 1842
  • Sister Nancy Aydlett departed this life Sep 1842
  • Brother Ammon Grandy departed this life 3 Aug 1842
  • Brother Jesse Gregory departed this life 12 Sep 1842
  • Brother Thos’ Jarvis departed this life 5 Nov 1842
  • Brother Richard Jarvis departed this life 9 Nov 1842
  • Brother John D. Grandy departed this life 23 Mar 1843
  • Brother Wilson Parr departed this life 8 Apr 1843
  • Sister Margaret Dozier departed this life 7 Apr 1843
  • Sister Sally Sikes departed this life 18 May 1844
  • Brother Truman Sawyer departed this life 20 Dec 1844
  • Sister Polly Dozier departed this life 24 Dec 1844
  • Sister Lurany Gilbert departed this life 18 Nov 1845
  • Sister Polly Divers departed this life 12 Nov 1845
  • Brother Peter Forbes departed this life Dec 1845
  • Brother Lemuel Wilson departed this life Jan 1846
  • Brother Reddick Sexton departed this life 4 Feb 1846
  • Sister Susan Sawyer wife of Samuel departed this life 1846
  • Brother Isaac Berry departed this life 28 Nov 1846
  • Sister Mary ? Jolber departed this life 8 Apr 1847
  • Brother Jno. Humphries departed this life 25 Oct 1847
  • Brother Wm. Aydlett departed this life 17 Dec 1847
  • Brother Josiah West departed this life Feb 1852
  • Sister Seney Jones departed this life 1836
  • Sister Gracey Williams departed this life 1836
  • Sister Polly Tuttle departed this life 1837
  • Brother Willis Upton departed this life 1837

Contributed by: Darleen F. Ricci

Record provided by Thalia T. Jones

 

HENRY TARKINGTON CEMETERY

West side of Lamb’s Road, Camden County, .10 mile south of Trafton Road on a hill in the field near woods.

H. A. Tarkington (Henry Alexander Tarkington)
Oct. 30, 1934
June 28, 1918
Kind father of love thou art gone to thy rest

Rebecca Tarkington (daughter of Jerry and Liza Sawyer)
May 5, 1840
Jan. 27, 1918
Having served her generation,
By the will of God she fell asleep.

Wm. H. Tarkington (son of Henry & Rebecca, second son named William Henry)
Born July 6, 1866
Died May 22, 1894

Infant Daughter of (Elsie Dean, daughter of Samuel and Nora Perline Tarkington S. W. & Nora T. McPherson)
McPherson
Oct. 11, 1932
“Suffer little children to come unto me.”

Mary E. Ferebee (daughter of Henry & Rebecca, wife of Greenville Ferebee)
Born May 19, 1863
Died Oct. 30, 1899

Contributed by Christine Ambrose

 

SAWYER Cemetery (South Mills Road)

Although there are not stones for each person, The family believes the following are all buried there.

Malachi Sawyer Born ca 1804 Died 10 Dec 1884

Elvia ( Elvey) Eason Sawyer Born ca 1810 Died 1871 (1st Wife of Malachi Sawyer)

Samuel Sawyer Born ca 1838 Died 2 Oct 1894 (Son of Malachi Sawyer)

Fanny Sawyer Jones Sawyer Born 16 May 1832 Died 11 Mar 1915 (2nd Wife of Malachi Sawyer)

Sarah McPherson Sawyer Died 1867-1870 (1st Wife of Samuel Sawyer)

Joe Sawyer Born 10 May 1908 Died 20 Sept 1910 ( Son of Joseph & Martha Etheridge Sawyer)

Ida Lovie Sawyer Born 12 Nov 1877 Died 6 Apr 1888 (Daughter of Malachi & Fanny Sawyer )

Contributed by: Darleen F. Ricci

 

SAWYER Cemetery

Location: Burnt Mills Section on a hill next to the swamp in the 1097 N.343 area. about 18 graves . 2 with broken off markers.

MARTHA A. SAWYER
1850-1924
We miss you dearest mother

GRANDY SAWYER
B. Dec. 16, 1827
D. Sept 1, 1908
erected by Etta & India

MARGARET OVERTON
B. June 28, 1849
D. Mar. 13, 1904

In Memory of our dear Father & Mother
J. E. TROTMAN ANN EURE his wife
B. July 4, 1828 B. Apr. 25, 1833
D. Nov. 29, 1910 D. Feb. 11, 1899

Beleived to be buried here but no marker
JOHN W. SAWYER (son of Lemuel & Charlotte Sawyer, B. 1826 – D. 1862

Contributed by: D.G. Owens

 

CORNELIUS G. LAMB Family Cemetery

Cornelius Gray Lamb Sr. was a prominent farmer and land owner during the antebellum period of Camden County. He was born abt 1798, son of Cornelius Lamb and Chloe Lurry (Leary). He was the grandson of the Lamb Family patriarch Capt. Luke Lamb and his first wife Mary Gray. He inherited a substantial estate and managed to increase the value. In the 1860 census, his estate was valued over $70,000 and was listed as owning 39 slaves.

Linwood, was the name of his plantation, and the beautiful home once stood at Lambs Corner, on the Southside of Lambs Road and North 343. Sadly the home burnt down in the late 1930’s. Linwood was a gathering place for scholars, statesmen and prominent families of Northeastern North Carolina.

About 1825, Cornelius G. Lamb married Margaret Mackie (Mackey) daughter of Capt. John Mackie and Mary Gregory of Currituck County, North Carolina. She died in 1834. He married 2nd, Judith Gregory Mackie Ferebee, sister of his first wife Margaret, and the widow of Thomas Cooper (Cowper)

Ferebee Sr. of Currituck. Two Children of his marriages lived to adulthood. A daughter, Mary E. Lamb who married Dr. Samuel I. Brown of Norfolk County on January 15,1852 and a son Cornelius Gray Lamb Jr., who graduated from the University of North Carolina.

Cornelius G. Lamb Jr. joined the Confederate Army and was captured at the Battle of Hatteras Island. He was a prisoner of war until his exchange in February of 1862. He never recovered his health and died sometime in 1863.

Cornelius G. Lamb Sr. was reported to have been beaten and robbed by Yankee soldiers at his home in Camden. He made it through the war years and died in 1866. The Cornelius G. Lamb Family Cemetery is located in the corner of the woods about 6/10 of a mile southwest of Lambs Corner. The last time I was there, 1983, the graves had been desecrated. One tall marker marks the graves of his wives. A brick lined grave had been broke into and the cast iron coffin was laid out on the ground.

The tall marker reads:
In Memory of
Margaret Lamb
Born Dec. 25, 1803
Died Feb. 2, 1834

Judith G. Lamb
Born March 3, 1794
Died Oct. 10, 1853 The stone was made by M.P. Butcher Norfolk, Va.

John M. Lamb Thomas Lamb Cornelius G. Lamb Sr.
B. Oct 24, 1827 B. Dec.1,1829 Cornelius G. Lamb Jr.
D. Sept. 21,1833 D. Oct 5,1832 believed to be buried here.

Contributed by D. G. Owens

 

GARDNER TRAFTON Cemetery

Small cemetery in field on north side of Trafton Road .6 miles from intersection with Hwy 343.

Known as Gardner Trafton Cemetery

Sign on chain around cemetery reads:

Charles Gardner Trafton
b. Dec. 31, 1760
d. Sept. 2, 1831

Tombstones read:

GARDNER TRAFTON
MASS. MIL.
REV. WAR

IN MEMORY OF
HORATIO W TRAFTON
BORN OCT 13, 1834
DIED MAR 23, 1864

GEORGE TRAFTON
Son of JOHN & MARY TRAFTON
Born June 11, 1827
Died Feb. 20, 1906
He searched the scriptures.

Contributed by Christine Ambrose

 

WHITE OAK HILL – TRAFTON Cemetery

These are gravestones in the White Oak Hill – Trafton Cemetery. The cemetery is located about ½ mile north of the intersection of NC Rt.353 and Trafton Road, Camden County, NC. The cemetery is behind George Berry’s house which is on the west side of the highway. There have been three surveys (1939, 1973, and 2002). Some of the graves have been moved and there are some unmarked graves.

This cemetery has been referred to as the White Oak Hill Cemetery and the Trafton Cemetery. Also referred to as being located in Bray’s Field.

For more information about any of the people buried here contact Kevin Crofton (crofton@coastalnet.com)

Mary F. Bray

Wife of J. A. Gregory

Born Aug 9, 1870

Died Aug 13, 1894

“Peace Perfect Peace.

Since thou can’st no longer

Stay to cheer me with thy love

I hope to meet with thee again

In yon bright world above”

 

Bernard W. Forbes

Nov. 28, 1898

June 30, 1930

“Asleep in Jesus”

 

Maud Kight

Born

Sept 29, 1879

Died Jan. 10, 1884

“Dearest Maud thou has left us,

Andy thy loss we deeply feel,

But tis God that has berefit us,

He can all our sorrows heal.

Farwell loved one.”

 

SACRED

to the Memory of

WILLIAM JARVIS

who was born

Dec. 20, 1804

DIED

Jan. 8, 1860

To the memory of

Mary Jarvis

Born

July 15, 1815,

Died Jan. 6, 1877

 

For many days she suffered here,

But not tis at an end,

And while her body sleeps .. death

In Christ she has a friend.

In Memory Of

Amelia B. Nash

wife of

C. R. Nash

Born Oct. 1, 1835

Died Sept. 16, 1875

“Blessed are the pure in heart

For they shall see God

 

Walter S. Forbes

1872-1954

 

TO MY UNCLE & AUNT

CALEB G. GRANDY

Age 81 yrs.

LYDIA J. GRANDY

Age 66 yrs.

“Blessed are the pure in heart

for they shall see God”

Contributed by Kevin Crofton