CONFEDERATE WOMAN'S HOME CEMETERY
Contributed by Mary Lee Boyer
July 14, 2002
This cemetery is located in Fayetteville off Fort Bragg Rd. Take Fort Bragg Road toward the downtown area
of Fayetteville. You will come to the Terry Sanford High School on your right. Go very slow past the school
and pull into the parking lot of the school by the athletic field. Staying in the parking lot drive along
the fence and you will see a dirt road that leads down behind the ball field. Take this road and pull down
behind the dugout and you will see two graveyards. The one in the bricked off area is of the Gee family of
Fayetteville.
The Confederate Womans Cemetery dates back to the 1800's. There used to be a Confederate Womans Home in the
open empty lot beside the school. There is a Historic marker there now in the vacant lot. The home was torn
down in the 1960's. There also used to be a Chapel that the ladies used but it was torn down in the 1980's
to make way for the school ball feild.
Many thanks to Kenneth Byrd of Cumberland and Harnett Counties for telling me of the cemeteries. Kenneth
lived in cumberland county in the area of the cemeteries as a small boy. Without his knowledge of the
cemeteries this page may have never been listed.
The Confederate Womans Cemetery with a brick column archway entrance is next to the Gee graveyard. You will
see there is a lot of overgrowth of poison and briars, but the stones are visiable. Mary Lee Boyer
At the entrance on the two brick column's there are plaques with inscriptions. I will list these frist. Some of
them have no dates, just memoriams.
In the center of the UDC cemetery is a stone that reads:
In Memory of the women who have passed away while residing in the Confederate Woman's Home---Erected by the
North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Conderacy 11-6-1938
Bolton, Ann w/o Peter 10-15-1784 / 9-22-1854
In Memory of Father & Mother: Benjamin Churchill Corham and his wife Laura McDaniel, Mrs Hunter Smith founder of home
Given By: Ruth Hanes Craig in memory of her devoted mother Lizora Fortune Hanes w/o P. H. Hanes Co. E 16th. North Carolina Battalion
In Memory of: Henry T. Bahnson M.D. Co. B. 1st Battallion North Carolina Sharp Shooters
In Memorian: Mrs. Sarah Sanders Hadley 1847 - 1905
In Memorian: Mrs. Joseph Catherine Miller Reed 1828 - 1907
In Memorian: Mrs. Smythia Jane Person Vail 1826 - 1911
In Memorian: Salena Corpening w/o Col: Philetus WalCott Roberts 14th. North Carolina Regiment 1832 - 1911 Her life was spent for others
In Memorian: Mrs. Hannah Jane Tatum 1856 - 1928
In Memorian: Mrs. Katherine Butler 1848 - 1928
In Memorian: Mrs. Eugenia Watson Early 1845 - 1928
In Memorian: W. L. Hill 1864 - 1927
In Memorian: Lucy Ann Class Parker 1854 - 1927 elected President NC Division UDC Oct. 1906
In Memorian: Mrs, Julia W. Bell 1853 - 1927
In Memorian Mrs. Martha Strange King 1843 - 1926
In Memorian: Eliza Hall Nutt w/o Col: William Murdock Parsley 1842 - 1920 Mother and Founder of the North
Carolina Division UDC Apeil 28, 1895
Adcock, Lucy C. 2-12-1873 / 1-26-1972
Aldredge, Mrs. Martha d. 8-26-1922
Barnes, Mrs. Margaret Parker 5-20-1867 / 11-10-1944
Beaman, Mrs. Mary Parker 8-13-1853 / 10-4-1943
Biles, Miss 2-26-1933 Age 83 Yrs.
Broach, Mrs. Bettie 7-4-1861 / 6-14-1938
Brown, Mrs. Virginia d. 2-1-1922 Age 39 Yrs.
Cain, Mrs. Amanda 12-14-1865 / 2-3-1936
Caldwell, Mrs. Mary d. 4-22-1920 Age 22 Yrs.
Carpenter, Mrs. Maude Alford 12-8-1859 / 3-14-1933
Carson, Mrs. Rillian E. 3-4-1856 / 4-29-1934
Carver, Mary E. Webster d/o J. & M. A. Carver 1850 - 1919
Cheek, Mrs. Carrie d. 1-8-1919 Age 28 Yrs.
Colvin, Miss Ada G. 2-1-1853 / 11-12-1943
Covington, Mrs. Mary d. 11-12-1911 Age 24 Yrs.
Crow, Mrs. Martha 7-17-1864 / 6-13-1950
Daill, Mrs. Allie d. 3-9-1928
Dickey, Mrs. Sallie E. 6-2-1849 / 11-?-1938
Fox, Miss Jennie d. 11-13-1947
Grimes, Mrs. Mary 11-18-1861 / 3-31-1938
Harrison, Miss Effie Vick 4-8-1872 / 5-3-1934
Hays, Miss Josephine 3-1-1858 / 10-22-1945
Hearner, Mrs. Jane d. 9-9-1925 Age 50 Yrs.
Herdon, Mrs. Annie 4-22-1853 / 5-3-1944
Hollan, Mrs. Matty d. 11-22-19?? / Age 84 Yrs.
Howard, Mrs. Sarah E. 12-24-1924 Age 88 Yrs.
Humphries, Mrs Milderd Adcox 9-23-1859 / 11-15-1940
Hunt, Miss Sallie 11-18-1851 / 3-28-1940
Johnson, Mrs. Sarah 10-12-1863 / 10-8-1949
Jones, Miss Mary E. 5-5-1853 / 2-4-1941
Kurtz, Mrs. Mary d. 12-14-1956 Age 89 Yrs.
Lewey, Mrs. Elizabeth d. 7-3-1918 Age 24 Yrs.
Littleton, Mrs. Frances 4-14-1855 / 5-22-1936
Lilly, Mrs. Virigina 7-25-1919 ?-27-????
McCaulley, Mrs. Elizabeth d. 12-25-1916
McDonald, Mrs. Eliza d. 7-29-1922 Age 25 Yrs.
McDonald, Mrs. Lou 10-19-1841 / 7-14-1933
McDowell, Mrs. ? James 4-27-1847 / 11-6-1935
McGannes, Mrs. Agnes 7-15-1868 / 7-24-1933
McLean, Mary Eliza 6-8-1873 / 11-14-1844
Montford, Mrs. Maggie 3-25-1840 / 2-12-1930
Moore, Mrs. Lizzie 4-18-1882 / 7-18-1933
Nettles, Mrs. Lena ? 10-1854 / 8-11-1939
Newton, Miss Rosa 3-4-1865 / 3-4-1946
Orr, Mrs. Virginia 12-19-1924 Age 88 Yrs.
Owens, Mrs. Annie d. 2-16-1932
Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth d. 4-5-1926
Parker, Mrs. Mary 4-11-1868 / 6-13-1944
Pigford, Mrs. Elizabeth 11-11-1848 / ?-8-1935
Pridgen, Mrs. Ellen 7-29-1860 / 4-9-1935
Sawyer, Miss Bell 6-12-1866 / 3-1-1947
Simpson, Miss Eva 1-22-1869 / 11-26-1952
Southerland, Mrs. Sarah 5-25-1850 / 3-5-1937
Richards, Mrs. S. E. 1-23-1923 Age 92 Yrs.
Riggesbee, Mrs. S. M. 3-22-1860 / 4-11-1930
Trexler, Mrs. Elizabeth J. d. 12-6-1920 / Age 29 Yrs.
Weeks, Mrs. Martha Jane 1858 / 3-6-1932
White, Mrs. Elizabeth d. 4-9-1922 Age 26 Yrs
White, Miss Rebecca 9-26-1854 / 9-28-1948
White, Miss Minnie 9-19-1858 / 8-18-1956
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