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Contributed by John Basset Collins
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Category: Uncategorized
Pre-1914 Chowan County cemetery transcriptions
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) records have been added online by the N. C. State Archives and the State Library of N. C. These are North Carolina Cemetery Surveys done by the Historical Society in the 1930′s.
You can find the Chowan County files here.
The entire State files here.
The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries for Chowan County. I have gone through & put the page numbers where you can find the transcriptions for the cemeteries.
- Baptist Cemetery Page 2
- Beaver Hill Cemetery Page 4
- Johnston Cemetery Page 8
- Macedonia Cemetery Page 10
- County Negro Cemetery Page 11
- Pearce Cemetery Page 14
- St. Pauls Episcopal Cemetery Page 15
- St. Pauls Episcopal Cemetery Page 17
- Topping Cemetery Page 24
- Ashley Cemetery Page 25
- Baptist Cemetery Page 26
Locating Chowan County Death Records
There are several resources available to you if you are looking for death records of Chowan County. You can contact the Chowan County Register of Deeds office to order certificates and/or consult the following resources:
- Chowan County Obituaries – submitted to this site
- Chowan County Deaths – indexed from various newspaper resources
- Chowan County Obituaries – submitted to the USGenWeb Archives Project
- North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930 — free database from FamilySearch with original images of death certificates; includes deaths in Chowan County
- North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 – free database from Family Record Search; includes Chowan County records, but does not have original images
- Social Security Death Index – looking for death information from approx. 1960s to present day? Try the SSDI – it can be searched for free at FamilySearch.
Obituaries of Chowan County
This list will include obituaries of Chowan County residents. Expect it to grow over time.
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New Site
We are moving the Chowan County site to this new platform. Pardon the mess while we tidy up :-).