Round Hill Cemetery
Haywood County, NC
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Round Hill Cemetery, crowned with trees, rising from
the Jonathan Valley. dated 1928 written on back of photo: "Looking from the South of Round Hill Cemetery, in Jonathan Valley, in Dellwood, near Waynesville, NC photo courtesy of Lamar Parton |
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Round Hill Cemetery, to the right, looking across the
Jonathan Valley. dated 1928 written on back of photo: "Looking from the West of Round Hill Cemetery, in Jonathan Valley, in Dellwood, near Waynesville, NC photo courtesy of Lamar Parton |
| To get to this cemetery, take Hwy. 276 down Jonathan's
Creek toward I-40 and Tennessee. Take Utah Mountain Road on the right and turn immediately left into the first driveway. Looking straight up, Round Hill Cemetery is at the very top of the hill. Before going to this cemetery, continue on Utah Mountain Road to Jim's Trim Shop on the right. Mr. Jim Howell at the Trim Shop owns the property around the cemetery and he will point out the best route to walk to the top of the hill. Originally this cemetery covered the entire top of Round Hill, but the majority of the graves were moved to Green Hill Cemetery in Waynesville, NC when I-40 was built. The remaining graves are all within the highway right-of-way and will eventually also be moved. There are 14 graves with readable markers and quite a few others marked only with fieldstones. There is also a highway right-of-way marker in the cemetery. It is fenced with no gates, so any visitors have to crawl over the fence. It is very heavily overgrown with brambles and briars which must be crawled through. In the spring, this cemetery is covered with thousands of daffodills, tulips, and yellowbells which have gone wild. The daffodills on Round Hill bloom about 2 weeks earlier than others in the area and last from 1 to 2 weeks longer. When these daffodills are dug up and transplanted to other areas, they bloom and die like all other daffodills, only on Round Hill do they display their tendancy to an extended blooming season. This cemetery is no longer in use. |
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Infant Marker
(Little) Carolyn daughter of Wilson & Nancy Parton no dates on marker |
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Infant Marker
D. M. son of F. W. & L. Parton January 13, 1877 |
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W. C.
son of F. W. & L. Parton November 29, 1893 October 2, 1903 |
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Erastus Keener Parton
September 30, 1896 November 26, 1931 |
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Double Headstone
PARTON Flemming White May 22, 1854 November ??, 1917 Laura Caldwell September 24, 1856 November 22, 1938 |
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Vesie Etta Parton
January 11, 1833 November 23, 1971 |
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Granite Column Marker
presently fallen & broken Nancy Partarton wife of Wilson Parton May 9, 1817 September 31, 1863 Wilson Parton December 8, 1808 November 14, 1880 **The name of Nancy Parton is misspelled as "Partarton" on her side of the marker. She is Nancy Allison Parton, daughter of the pioneer Joshua Allison.** |
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Alice Parton Tucker
November 27, 1874 June 8, 1946 |
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Infant Marker
Mary Evaline daughter of Fred & Bessie (Betsie?) Tucker September 15, 1931 April ?, 1935 |
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John W. Parton
March 12, 1853 March 16, 1919 |
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Funeral Home Marker
David Marvin Cook April 17, 1959 aged 36 yrs, 6 mos, 24 days |
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Funeral Home Marker
William Alexander Goodwin November 12, 1939 aged 46 yrs, 6 mos, 27 days |
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Funeral Home Marker
Charles Edward Goodwin June 15, 1935 no other readable information |
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(c) 1998 - present, Haywood Co., NC (c)Surveyed March 31, 2001 by Rebecca Howell and Ruby Howell Sutton |
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