Category: Cemeteries

In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state.  These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC.

The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries.  Do keep in mind that there may be errors and/or mistakes, but the value of these records is immense.

• Adams Cemetery (pg. 5)
• Banks Cemetery (two of them – pgs. 6 & 7)
• Bender Cemetery — pg. 8
• Brown Cemetery (pg. 9 – African-American)
• Civils & Gray Cemetery (pg. 35)
• Cumbo Cemetery (pg. 36)
• Dillahunt Cemetery (pg. 37)
• Duval Cemetery (pg. 10)
• Friendship Cemetery (pg. 38)
• Forbes Cemetery (pg. 11)
• Foscue Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 12 & 13)
• Foy Cemetery (pg. 14)
• Foy Cemetery (pg. 15 – African-American)
• Gilbert Cemetery (pg. 40)
• Green’s Cemetery (pg. 41)
• Harriett Cemetery (pg. 16)
• Harrison Cemetery (pg. 42)
• Howard Cemetery (pg. 17)
• Huggins Cemetery (pg. 43)
• Koonce Cemetery (pg. 44)
• Maysville Cemetery (pg. 4)
• McDaniel’s Cemetery (pgs. 45 & 46)
• Melton Cemetery (pg. 18)
• Moore Cemetery (pg. 47)
• Oak Grove Cemetery (pg. 21)
• Oliver Cemetery (two of them, pgs. 22 & 23)
• Piney Grove Cemetery (pg. 25)
• Pleasant Hill Cemetery (pg. 2)
• Pollock Cemetery (pgs. 48 & 49)
• Pollocksville Cemetery (pg. 26)
• Scott Cemetery (pg. 50)
• Simmons Cemetery (pg. 31 & 32)
• Smith Cemetery (pg. 51)
• Taylor Cemetery (pg. 33)
• Taylor’s Cemetery (pg. 52)
• Trenton Cemetery (pg. 53 & 58)
• White Cemetery (pg. 34)

 

You can find the Jones County files here.

Philyaw Cemetery (as listed on numerous death certificates), is now called the “Jones Family Cemetery”.  It is located on NC Highway 41 in Comfort, NC; Behind brick house with circle drive; Three giant oak in midst of cemetery.

Surveyed by Brenda Craft Hardy and Lynda Lewis Frisch – June 2011

Bishop, Barney W.
b. Sep., 1827 d. Mar., 1914

Bishop, Susan Packer Jones
b. Dec., 1829 d. 1900

Cottle, Preston
b. May 31, 1922 d. Jul. 25, 1999

Ellis, Margaret Cottle Phillips
b. May 22, 1927 d. Jan. 21, 1988

George, Mariah Louise Hatch
b. Mar. 25, 1863 d. Apr. 22, 1946

George, Mary Elizabeth Jones
b. Sep. 12, 1902 d. Dec. 3, 1949

George, Richard Louis
b. Aug. 22, 1889 d. Jun. 26, 1959

George, William Council
b. Oct. 20, 1838 d. Mar. 17, 1919

Hill, Jimmie Bryant
b. Oct. 17, 1902 d. Jan. 30,

Hill, Joseph William
b. Aug. 3, 1923 d. Jun. 23, 1990

Hill, Leona Noble
b. Oct. 29, 1895 d. Feb. 10, 1965

Hill, Manly Gray
b. Jan. 4, 1927 d. Jan. 4, 1927

Jarman, Jobe
b. Feb. 9, 1866 d. Nov. 23, 1935

Jenkins, Clarence Ray
b. Jun. 7, 1951 d. Jul. 7, 1996

Jenkins, Emaline Philyaw
b. Jun. 29, 1914 d. Jan. 7, 2005

Jenkins, Flora Bell Philyaw
b. Mar. 8, 1912 d. Aug. 20, 2001

Jenkins, Infant Daughter
b. May 5, 1947 d. May 5, 1947

Jenkins, Johnie Ruth Philyaw
b. Oct. 20, 1909 d. Mar. 28, 1930

Jenkins, Lillian Mae Craft
b. May 24, 1922 d. May 18, 1990

Jenkins, Rachel Susan “Sudie” Meadows
b. Aug. 24, 1892 d. Feb. 4, 1937

Jenkins, Ralph
b. Nov. 14, 1911 d. Oct. 31, 1994

Jenkins, Wilbur Perry
b. Mar. 1, 1907 d. Jan. 19, 1955

Jenkins, William Clem, Jr
b. Jan. 23, 1914 d. Sep. 4, 1988

Jenkins, William Clem, Sr
b. May 5, 1880 d. Nov. 6, 1955

Jones, Charles “Charlie”
b. Aug. 7, 1862 d. Apr. 8, 1954

Jones, Charles Cecil “Charlie”
b. Jan. 13, 1934 d. Nov. 16, 1936

Jones, Claude
b. Jun. 29, 1907 d. Sep. 29, 1984

Jones, Florence Mabel Chase
b. Feb. 8, 1905 d. Dec. 26, 1985

Jones, George Ace
b. Jan., 1872 d. Jan. 21, 1937

Jones, George Henry
b. Oct. 13, 1913 d. Oct. 4, 1921

Jones, George Robert
b. Apr. 7, 1860 d. May 30, 1938

Jones, Jesse
b. 1820 d. 1867

Jones, Jimmie Lee
b. Sep. 12, 1944 d. Mar. 25, 2009

Jones, Margaret “Margie” Chase
b. Aug. 4, 1884 d. Jul. 18, 1968

Jones, Mittie Ida
b. Apr. 29, 1871 d. May 20, 1934

Jones, Virginia Mae Walters
b. Jul. 6, 1876 d. Sep. 15, 1957

Killingsworth, Albert Robert
b. Oct. 15, 1873 d. Sep. 2, 1944

Killingsworth, Lucy Philyaw
b. Jan. 23, 1885 d. Jul. 3, 1963

King, Ernest Edward
b. Oct. 23, 1939 d. Jun. 22, 1940

King, Horace Edward
b. Apr. 4, 1910 d. Dec. 25, 1978

King, Macie Florence Jones
b. Dec. 24, 1919 d. Mar. 16, 2006

King, Raymond
b. Dec. 31, 1940 d. Oct. 14, 2010

King, Russell Rodgers
b. Jun. 6, 1936 d. Aug. 2, 1942

King, Yoncarrel
b. Sep. 30, 1937 d. Aug. 16, 1940

Marshburn, Bettie Noble
b. Dec. 12, 1886 d. Oct. 11, 1951

Noble, Joseph H. “Joe”
b. Feb. 8, 1854 d. Feb. 10, 1922

Noble, Lizzie Battle
b. Mar. 2, 1865 d. Sep. 18, 1937

Nobles, Elsie Philyaw
b. Aug. 24, 1903 d. Jun. 28, 1988

Nobles, Faison Paul
b. Aug. 25, 1897 d. Aug. 9, 1982

Nobles, Luby Hall
b. Sep. 29, 1893 d. Nov. 2, 1975

Philyaw, Audie Ellen Coombs
b. Jan. 23, 1881 d. Nov. 20, 1968

Philyaw, Carrie Harrison
b. Oct. 23, 1885 d. Apr. 20, 1961

Philyaw, Cecil L.
b. Jun. 21, 1915 d. Apr. 2, 1916

Philyaw, Edna Ivees Nobles
b. Jun. 25, 1924 d. Jul. 7, 2008

Philyaw, Frances Lucille Hill
b. Jun., 1926 d. Jan. 19, 1990

Philyaw, George Robert
b. Oct. 20, 1887 d. Feb. 7, 1968

Philyaw, Harper William
b. Nov. 18, 1922 d. Mar. 17, 2000

Philyaw, Haywood B.
b. Nov. 18, 1922 d. Feb. 14, 1962

Philyaw, Leroy
b. Nov. 6, 1917 d. Jun. 28, 1997

Philyaw, Luther
b. Nov. 25, 1881 d. Nov. 14, 1958

Philyaw, Mabel
b. Jun. 25, 1916 d. Feb. 22, 1936

Philyaw, Mable B.
b. Oct. 28, 1910 d. Nov. 13, 1910

Philyaw, Macie Marie
b. Oct. 24, 1921 d. Dec. 24, 1954

Philyaw, Martha Murphy-Graves
b. Jan. 26, 1932 d. Mar. 6, 2011

Philyaw, Mary Elizabeth Jones
b. Jun. 17, 1849 d. Oct. 20, 1901

Philyaw, Minerva Alice Huffman
b. Jun. 14, 1883 d. Feb. 25, 1950

Philyaw, Rena A. Coombs
b. Aug. 18, 1888 d. Dec. 24, 1954

Philyaw, Walter Wilson
b. Feb. 24, 1882 d. Dec. 24, 1958

Philyaw, Zachariah Wilson “Zackie”
b. Aug. 17, 1859 d. May 4, 1946

Southerland, William Henry
b. Mar. 13, 1841 d. Jun. 10, 1916

Walker, Donald Ray
b. Dec. 15, 1934 d. Aug. 1, 1940

Walters, Claudius M.
b. Dec. 7, 1870 d. May 22, 1950

Winsette, Joseph Haneby
b. Oct. 4, 1912 d. Nov. 3, 1916

Winsette, Peter Calvin “Pete”
b. Jun. 21, 1871 d. Dec. 27, 1945

Survey completed December 2011 by  Lynda Lewis Frisch & Brenda Craft Hardy.

Name	Birth	Death
BANKS, Cyrus Thompson	19 Feb 1905	11 Mar 1905
BANKS, Joseph Kinsey “Joe”	29 Mar 1884	16 Nov 1957
DIXON, Phillip Kuder	6 Sep 1939	3 Sep 1998
DIXON, Shirley Kindall Shivar	27 Dec 1939	27 Jun 2010
FIELDS, Marie Shivar	30 Mar 1946	1 Oct 2004
HARDISON, Sarah	2006	14 Jul 2006
JARMAN, Dorothy Dean	18 Jul 1917	11 Jul 1938
JARMAN, Furney	20 Sep 1897	15 Oct 1943
JARMAN, (infant son)	8 Feb 1960	8 Feb 1860
SHIVAR Jr., Corace Evans	15 Oct 1957	15 Oct 1957
SHIVAR Sr., Corace Evans	17 Aug 1936	1 Feb 2002
SHIVAR Sr., Edward Earl	3 Sep 1926	8 Nov 1965
SHIVAR, Nettie Mae Hill	1 Jan 1896	6 Oct 1946
SHIVAR, Sarah Frances “Sallie” Howard	24 Apr 1924	10 Apr 2001
SHIVAR, Walter Hardy	10 May 1924	6 Oct 1955
SHIVAR, Wayland Evans	11 Aug 1921	13 Dec 1922
SHIVAR Jr., Wayland Evans	20 Nov 1884	5 Apr 1944
SHIVAR Sr., William Evans	24 Dec 1823	1 Aug 1884
SHIVAR, William Ward	22 Aug 1913	1 Mar 1957
WEHRHAHN, Nettie Mae Shivar	25 Jun 1942	23 Sep 2003
WEHRHAHN Jr., Thomas Edison	1 Apr 1968	1 Apr 1968
WEHRHAHN, Thomas Edison	8 Mar 1936	1 Jun 2004

Thanks to fellow researcher Richard Phillips for sharing cemetery photos he took on a recent trip through Jones County.  Near 10 Mile Fork Rd and Ben Banks Rd he saw tombstones in the distance and decided to take a look.   I’ve added a link to his blog post from the Cemeteries page.   You can read more here.

Yours truly researchers the Koonce families of Jones and surrounding counties.  Many Koonce researchers are either descended from or are interested in, Capt. Michael Koonce and his family.

Researcher & Koonce descendant, Claude Thomas Hardison Jr. recently visited the area for the 300th Celebration in Craven County and sought out the gravesite of the family.

Forging through thick overgrowth, Claude did indeed get to take photos of some of the tombstones that were there. Though he didn’t find one for Capt. Koonce or his son, he did capture photos of four tombstones: those of  brother & sister, Susan Hargett & James Reynolds Hargett and their spouses — Amos Simmons Koonce and Susan Koonce respectively.   Amos was a grandson of the Captain via son Michael Jr. and I’m not quite sure yet who Susan’s parents were.

The tombstones have been added as a cemetery on the site and can be seen from here.

Thanks to researcher and blogger Judith E. Bush, we now have online cemetery photos and transcriptions for some of the tombstones on the John Martin Franck homestead.   Judith recently traveled to Jones County and took these photos while there.

The listing can be located by going to Cemeteries –> Franck Homestead Cemetery.

There are some beautiful headstones there – here is the headstone for John Martin Franck’s wife, Elizabeth  – a Koonce descendant, daughter of Richard & Elizabeth Koonce.  (and yes, I’m partial to Koonces :-))